Example sentences of "was taken from the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ It seems that it was taken from the car park next to her office but abandoned almost immediately . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( Cause of death was taken from the death registration form as coded by OPCS . ) |
| 5 | Its name was taken from the chantry in Minchinhampton Church , to which the mill then belonged . |
| 6 | It was to be entitled Drive , He Said which was taken from the Robert Creely poem : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This story was taken from the experiences of members of organisations on Age Concern 's governing body . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Only the family car was taken from the £1 million landscaped home . |
| 14 | The bear from Peru was taken from the glass dome which has been his home at Paddington station for 25 years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A similar sample of 100 was taken from the 216 clients who received counselling from the local Drugs Council . |
| 20 | This photograph of the STATION was taken from the top of St Mary 's Church tower soon after the opening of the railway . |
| 21 | The content of the tests was taken from the range of topics in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The woman 's eyes got bigger and bigger with surprise as each thing was taken from the pram . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I think that is why the shoe was taken from the hotel in London . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | ‘ He was taken from the grass . |
| 29 | This biopsy was taken from the anterior surface of the right lobe of the liver . |
| 30 | The reference point for timing of swallows was taken from the onset of this pressure wave . |