Example sentences of "was take from the " in BNC.

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1 In this way he was taking from the Crown a ‘ forced ’ and interest-free loan .
2 ‘ It seems that it was taken from the car park next to her office but abandoned almost immediately .
3 The specimen was taken from the eastern side of the sandbar just as the tide began to ebb and came the day after Kevin had taken a 2 lb 8 oz flounder from the same spot .
4 In addition , the pace of wage reduction fell and only one-eighth of the amount was taken off the weekly wage bill between 1930–3 as was taken from the net weekly wage bill for 192 1.47 Also , there was little to suggest that the pattern and the style of industrial relations was greatly altered by the General Strike : the number of workers on strike and the number of days of work lost were already declining well before 1926 and there was a rise of industrial militancy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as unions attempted to resist the further wage cuts being advocated by employers .
5 ( Cause of death was taken from the death registration form as coded by OPCS . )
6 Its name was taken from the chantry in Minchinhampton Church , to which the mill then belonged .
7 It was to be entitled Drive , He Said which was taken from the Robert Creely poem :
8 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 .
9 This story was taken from the experiences of members of organisations on Age Concern 's governing body .
10 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 .
11 The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns .
12 This solo was taken from the final track of 20 year-old Blues Saraceno 's second album , ‘ Plaid ’ , and is a good example of his playing style , which , to my ears , is an excellent combination of tasteful note selection , phrasing , vibrato and flashy fretboard gymnastics .
13 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 .
14 Only the family car was taken from the £1 million landscaped home .
15 The bear from Peru was taken from the glass dome which has been his home at Paddington station for 25 years .
16 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 .
17 In addition , and three days earlier , a ‘ Martyrdom of Saint Catherine ’ by Giovanni Francesco Caroto ( c.1478–1555 ) was taken from the Christ Church Picture Gallery on 3 March .
18 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 .
19 A random sample of 100 was taken from the 308 patients who had been referred to the local Detoxification Unit during the same 12 months of the first prevalence study period .
20 A similar sample of 100 was taken from the 216 clients who received counselling from the local Drugs Council .
21 This photograph of the STATION was taken from the top of St Mary 's Church tower soon after the opening of the railway .
22 The content of the tests was taken from the range of topics in the Cockcroft foundation list .
23 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 .
24 The woman 's eyes got bigger and bigger with surprise as each thing was taken from the pram .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 I think that is why the shoe was taken from the hotel in London .
28 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 ] .
29 ‘ He was taken from the grass .
30 This biopsy was taken from the anterior surface of the right lobe of the liver .
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