Example sentences of "were taken out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A minority were more fortunate , if one can take as reasonably accurate the report by the Commissariat of Agriculture that 109,705 peasants were taken out of the famine zone and settled on farming land in Siberia , the Ukraine , the Caucasus , and elsewhere .
2 But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment .
3 Fifty-three were taken out of the reckoning , including 10 trained by Henry Cecil .
4 Though the party 's election manifesto is a model of federalist Euro-fervour , the party 's leader caused a storm earlier this year when he said his ‘ his pulse would not waver ’ if the peseta were taken out of the ERM .
5 The centre-piece of the medieval festivals was always the great religious procession when the images of the saints were taken out of the churches and cathedrals and paraded round the town , as still happens in Catholic Europe .
6 Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology .
7 Conference decisions were taken out of the hands of the National Executive on several major issues , indicating a spirit of defiant independence which was rare in the Party as a whole .
8 Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans .
9 Here we went to the British Airways Executive Aircraft desk and were taken out to the Moët et Chandon Executive Jet , which was waiting to fly us to Edinburgh .
10 When starting out in the aircraft spares business , twenty Tiger Moth wings were acquired , which after a period in storage were deemed to be taking up too much space , so reluctantly they were taken out into the back yard and burnt .
11 They were taken out into the grounds , weather permitting , otherwise ‘ they spend most of their day in this ward , which is a day-and-night nursery combined .
12 And when the other cows were taken out in the morning and brought home in the evening , it stood there without even turning its head .
13 More personal equity plans were taken out in the 12 months to April 1992 than in any other year since the PEP scheme was set up in 1987 .
14 In 1849–51 an annual average of 191 agriculture patents were taken out in the United States ; in 1859–61 , 1,282 ; in 1869–71 , no less than 3,217 .
15 One by one , they were taken out by the instructor so he could assess their skill and how much of the tuition we had taken in .
16 They were in a massacre in their village near Mostar and they were taken out by the Flying Tigers to Split .
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