Example sentences of "take away [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason — just one — is that as the rich world gives with one hand so it takes away with the other . |
| 2 | But that should n't take away from the achievement of the French . |
| 3 | Even a shite version by Bill Haley could n't take away from the glory of Turner 's creation . |
| 4 | An irony of the Budget was that what it gave with one hand it took away with the other . |
| 5 | One of the strong impressions that I took away from the secondment was the ability of C&P managers at all levels to use various diagrammatic models to help them not only explain the workings of the company , but to help them analyse problems and synthesize solutions . |
| 6 | It is interesting to note that Parliament struck these words out of s.62 because they took away from the purity of the section . |
| 7 | They got 'er took away in the end . |
| 8 | He had revealed a capacity for giving with one hand and taking away with the other . |
| 9 | Without taking away from the association 's present main activities in forming international teams and organising international events — mirrored by the clubs ' heavy orientation towards racing — it was agreed that the whole base of the sport needed widening . |
| 10 | It is known that the reliquary of Saint Winifred was taken away on the wagon that was loaded with timber for Ramsey , but no one has shown how this came about . |
| 11 | The South Ronaldsay children were taken away on the morning of Wednesday 27 February . |
| 12 | The municipal railings had been taken away for the war effort and through the gaps in the makeshift fence of galvanised iron he saw a tramp in an army greatcoat sitting on a green bench . |
| 13 | Anybody under that is they were taken away to the army no bother . |
| 14 | The did n't reserve anybody and quite a lot of their men at forty was taken away to the army . |
| 15 | And if either of these things happened to her then Odette and Liam would be separated and taken away to the work-house , Odette with her heart in pieces and her nerves in tatters , Liam retreating so far into that anxious silence of his that nothing would ever bring him out again . |
| 16 | Nothing is taken away except the ability to have children and the only difference after the operation is that the seminal fluid ejaculated when a man reaches a climax contains no sperm . |
| 17 | The fine pair of dogs on top of the gateposts of the present-day front door were taken away after the fire and put on the gateposts of a house near Mere , belonging to Bullen 's daughter-in-law 's second husband , Mr Chaffin . |
| 18 | At the local level control was taken away from the School Boards and put into the hands of local councils who were to serve as LEAs in their own areas . |
| 19 | I was taken away from the school by my father and tutored in a caravan by an eccentric ex-priest . |
| 20 | It is not fair to your able Headmaster and his assistants ; it is not fair to the foundation of Sir Edmond Shaa ; it is not fair to the boys that they should be taken away from the school at so early an age . " |
| 21 | Members of the local black community were enraged by reports that the driver of the vehicle , Yoseph Lisef , 22 , who had sustained only minor injuries , was quickly taken away from the scene of the accident by a private Jewish ambulance service , whilst the more seriously injured children were left to wait for attention from a city ambulance crew . |
| 22 | Now , if we say to you , ‘ We understand a vast quantity of samples have been taken away from the scene , ’ now , if you do n't know that , then should you know it ? |
| 23 | Right , because the body is acting in order to protect its vital organs and it 's drawing the blood vessels near the skin , shut down , you 're not needed there , you 're needed here , in the core of the body , because your blood is what warms your skin up , it 's taken away from the skin , then the skin feels cold and clammy , yeah , clammy because of course if there 's no heat , we sweat all the time and especially if somebody 's had an accident or is seriously ill they will be sweating , yes , then there 's nothing to dry the sweat off okay , what happens when we sweat excessively in the summer time ? |
| 24 | The report recommends that both the fossil fuel levy and the liabilities inherited by Nuclear Electric be taken away from the company and vested in a separate trust fund . |
| 25 | So we take that away and then you got the refurbishment programme and now taken away from the refurbishment programme something like two hundred , now where is the if you 're refurbishing four homes where is the vacancies when you close the home , you have made the staff the redundant , they go up the road or out wherever they 're going to redundancy persons . |
| 26 | In May these were taken away from the home grazings and put out on the distant moors for the summer . |
| 27 | Similarly , compare ‘ Germanic ’ with ‘ German ’ — when the stress is taken away from the syllable , the vowel weakens to . |
| 28 | The authors believe that a major reason for the public 's perception that auditors lack independence is their ‘ weak structural position ’ , and that the only way to overcome this is for audit regulation to be taken away from the profession . |
| 29 | A sensible adjustment has been suggested ( in the context of the election of MEPs ) by M.Steed of the University of Manchester : let Bedfordshire , Hertfordshire and Essex be taken away from the South-East region and combined with East Anglia to form a new Eastern region . |
| 30 | I understand this , the selling of the house will not take place here at all , it 'll be taken away from the house |