Example sentences of "was taken from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest authenticated barbel caught in Britain on rod and line weighed 16lb 1Oz , and was taken from the Hampshire Avon by a salmon angler . |
| 2 | The £4 ft by 8ft plastic pond was taken from the yard of Overdale Primary School in Eastfield where it was being stored before being sunk into the ground as part of a nature garden . |
| 3 | The content of the tests was taken from the range of topics in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 4 | The money was taken from the home of a 66-year-old retired businessman in North Ormesby , Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | Exposure to a drug was taken from the date of its first prescription to date of death or to 31 December 1990 , whichever came first . |
| 6 | The name was taken from the date in 1991 on which 14 people were killed by Soviet troops during the crisis over Lithuania 's demands for independence from the USSR [ see pp. 37944-45 ] . |
| 7 | The duration of disease was taken from the date of diagnosis except where obvious symptoms of colitis came before the diagnosis by a matter of years . |
| 8 | Its name was taken from the chantry in Minchinhampton Church , to which the mill then belonged . |
| 9 | At the Smiths Arms in Greatham , near Hartlepool , £800 was taken from the vending and gaming machines during a burglary . |
| 10 | I think that is why the shoe was taken from the hotel in London . |
| 11 | This story was taken from the experiences of members of organisations on Age Concern 's governing body . |
| 12 | This photograph of the STATION was taken from the top of St Mary 's Church tower soon after the opening of the railway . |
| 13 | The woman 's eyes got bigger and bigger with surprise as each thing was taken from the pram . |
| 14 | Police say now believe the motive for the killing was robbery ; a small amount of cash was taken from the till . |
| 15 | Police say now believe the motive for the killing was robbery ; a small amount of cash was taken from the till . |
| 16 | Money was taken from the till , pool table and pay phone . |
| 17 | Bile ( 0.5 ml ) was taken from the gall bladder at laparotomy and infused into the proximal ileum over a two minute period . |
| 18 | In 1968 , however , that rare talent of Clark 's was taken from the sport when he lost his life in an inexplicable accident during a Formula Two race at West Germany 's Hockenheim circuit . |
| 19 | The Saturday morning market in the yard was taken from the pattern of the street market , where the clothes were laid out in heaps on the ground with a decent garment on the top of each pile to tempt the passer-by to look further . |
| 20 | For the first stage of the field work , a random sample was taken from the client lists of the two agencies that provided the team with the most systematic and varied information on users , that is , the local Detoxification Unit and Drugs Council . |
| 21 | When the cloth was taken from the loom , it was loose and open in texture and needed to be fulled , or shrunk , to make it warmer and more durable . |
| 22 | ( Cause of death was taken from the death registration form as coded by OPCS . ) |
| 23 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 24 | The reference point for timing of swallows was taken from the onset of this pressure wave . |
| 25 | Only the family car was taken from the £1 million landscaped home . |
| 26 | He was taken from the club unconcious and was dead on arrival at hospital . |
| 27 | Oxford East was taken from the Tories last time round , but remains a marginal . |
| 28 | Two weeks after my father 's release Dr Sambataro , faking appendicitis , was taken from the prison to the hospital in Parma , where the surgeons supported him in his pretence . |
| 29 | A Ford Orion was taken from the Community Centre car park in Northallerton . |
| 30 | ‘ He was taken from the grass . |