Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] take out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section .
2 But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment .
3 The hen was taken out of the cage , held up and its throat cut .
4 As the elder girl was taken out to the car , with police and social workers on either side of her , she turned round , touched her mother 's arm and said ‘ Are you all right , Mum ? ’
5 At some time prior to 1810–1811 , the mill was taken out of the cloth trade and converted to a corn mill , run by William Clissold .
6 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 .
7 Each infantry battalion and armoured regiment had to have an operational ‘ peg ’ , but much of the sting was taken out of the Sandys Reformation , as far as the Army was concerned , by many of its regiments having 2nd and 3rd battalions , which could be amalgamated with 1st battalions as National Servicemen ran out , thus preserving regimental traditions .
8 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 .
9 It was really no surprise that Brian was taken out of the room that afternoon .
10 With the exception of two seminars on the assessment of enterprise skills , the focus on teaching and learning was taken out of the programme and shifted to a two-day conference ( with a menu of sessions to which staff can opt in ) held in June 1993 in conjunction with the Educational Development Unit .
11 A £3m loan was taken out during the year to buy the freehold of the Lancaster hotel in Paris .
12 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 .
13 When we arrived at the station an enormous suitcase was taken out of the car .
14 SUAVE Dancer was taken out of the betting for the Arc de Triomphe yesterday .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents .
19 Terry was taken out of the basement and , when he returned , said that he could n't tell us what he was doing .
20 When so-called ‘ marginal land ’ around the periphery of the LFA was surveyed between 1980 and 1982 , none of the existing LFA land was taken out of the LFA in spite of the arbitrary nature of the boundary .
21 Perhaps it would be better if the sport of boundary disputing was taken out of the hands of lawyers who are , by nature , adversarial .
22 Workers at a department store have had their pensions frozen because money was taken out of the fund before the shop was sold to new owners .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 When the school evacuated to Minehead , Alice was taken out of the classroom to become a full-time household help :
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