Example sentences of "taken from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 into a more cohesive unit on Division ’ ( taken from a Divisional Order ) .
2 Unlike most of Masur 's Leipzig recordings , this one was taken from a live concert , given last October in Avery Fisher Hall .
3 Six units to be taken from a wide range of choices , plus a dissertation .
4 The plan , largely developed in the late 1850s by Berlin Baurat James Holbrecht , was itself taken from a cartographic concept already established by Haussmann .
5 This may be done manually on cards , but it is probably more efficient to mark up a print-out ( taken from a comprehensive database ) of all the titles in print in that subject area .
6 Conversely , shots taken from a low angle impart a feeling of inferiority or weakness .
7 Shots taken from a low angle make subjects look forbidding , while a high angle has the opposite effect .
8 There were also several coloured photographs of the villa ‘ La Felicità ’ ; all taken from a low angle , so that it seemed to tower against the sky ; a place where the owners might appear on the battlements to a flourish of trumpets and a cry of heralds .
9 This one is taken from a recent letter to The Times newspaper .
10 Good evidence would consist of an incriminating statement taken from a prospective client or an offer to do ‘ business ’ with a plain-clothed policeman .
11 Southall , who had earlier blocked a close-range shot from the England left-back taken from a similar angle , looked more vulnerable this time but Pearce drove the ball past the far post .
12 The Listening Test is taken from a vast resource bank of authentic data : thousands of examples of ‘ slips of the ear ’ where a native speaker said one thing and the non-native speaker — who was listening — heard another .
13 You are taken from a general understanding of PCs , all the way to a thorough understanding of PCs and Networks , and how to implement a satisfactory level of security .
14 Shlomo Green , Jewish refugee from the Nazis , on learning that his home in Israel was taken from a Palestinian family in 1948 .
15 DRUGS taken from a stolen doctor 's bag could form a lethal cocktail if taken together , police said yesterday .
16 Breakfast is buffet style , and dinner is taken from a four course set menu .
17 Above : Taken from a locally-based Jet Ranger , this photograph shows just six of the 11 airworthy Norseman aircraft that gathered at Red Lake to participate in Red Lake 's Norseman Celebration weekend on July 25/26 .
18 The Dutchman/Senta duet is taken from a 1943 radio transmission , in better sound than the Lohengrin .
19 You can buy packs which you complete manually with exact timings taken from a digital clock , but it is more common for standard pads to be completed operating on a six-minute unit .
20 The first is worth mentioning only because it gave him his debut in a major studio , for a United Artists production of Studs Lonigan , one more Dean-like character taken from a successful trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell .
21 It is recommended that entries for this field be taken from a restricted set defined by the Project Manager ; e.g. an entry may be the computer , the operating system and the version of the operating system in use ( for example , VAX 11/785 VMS V5.2 ) .
22 It is a big bridal veil , but my picture was taken from a long way off .
23 It was delightfully snug and companionable there in the firelight , with the roar of the seas outside muted , all draughts excluded , sufficiently warm without being too hot ; for the fireplace was no less than twelve feet wide , its lintel a massive slab of stone more than that in length , reputedly taken from a Pictish stone circle , so that the ingle was like a little open room of its own in the thickness of the walling .
24 A brownish red curtain fabric discovered on the footboard of a bed was originally from Clifton Castle and the pelmet design was taken from a nineteenth-century pattern book .
25 ( This description is taken from a contemporary source .
26 Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine :
27 A specimen of basalt taken from a cold lava flow , however , is not a particularly inspiring object at all — in most cases , it probably looks like a dirty black lump of clinker .
28 A radio-cassette was taken from a Malaysian-made Kia Pride car parked in Melsonby Crescent , Darlington , on Saturday .
29 Roy , the gunman from Rhodesia , had a suede jacket with tassels on the back and sleeves , and a pair of boots which he swore had been taken from a dead terrorist .
30 His description of the Roman military camp ( 6.27–42 ) is almost certainly derived from a book , and even the description of a Roman levy on the Capitol ( 6.19–21 ) seems to be taken from a written account , since , as Professor Brunt has lately shown in detail , it can hardly have corresponded to contemporary practice ( Italian Manpower 225 B.C.–A.D. 14 ( 1971 ) , 625–34 ) .
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