Example sentences of "was taken [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than £250,000 gate money was taken for the second day of the June test against Pakistan , and the decision could open the floodgates for other claims . |
| 2 | Last summer , the House of Representatives passed a bill funding the full $1.8bn requested by the Navy , but the vote was taken before the second sea test failure . |
| 3 | That was taken in the last few years , er I j I I 've never bothered about clothes in my entire life . |
| 4 | A small intestinal biopsy specimen was taken from the third part of the duodenum , and routinely processed for histological examination . |
| 5 | Money was exchanged , the two contestants shook hands , and their place in the ring was taken by a second pair of fighters : a Rajput with a handlebar moustache , and a small but fierce-looking Muslim who sported a bushy black beard . |
| 6 | Some two hundred years after Descartes had formulated his concept of mechanical laws , a proven capacity to discover the laws of nature and to express them mathematically was taken by the first systematic historian of science , William Whewell , as evidence of an affinity between human and the divine mind . |
| 7 | The salute was taken by the First Sea Lord , Admiral Sir Benjamin Bathurst , Lord Sterling , the President of the Chamber of Shipping , Edmund Vestey and the Lord Mayor of Liverpool . |