Example sentences of "by taking the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kilns venture was highly unusual , and the Lewis brothers knew that they could only afford it by taking the great risk of throwing in their lot together ; in the event the purchase price was lowered to £3,300 . |
| 2 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 3 | Normalisation is done by taking the average rate of growth exhibited by the extra-area trading balances . |
| 4 | Thus Richard Dyer has argued of gay machismo that , by taking the traditional signs of masculinity and ‘ eroticising them in a blatantly homosexual context , much mischief is done to the security with which ‘ men' ’ are defined in society , and by which their power is secured' ( ‘ Getting Over the Rainbow ’ , 61 ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps this can be made clearer by taking the specific example of somebody who has an anxiety attack whilst shopping in a supermarket . |
| 6 | ‘ Technology thrives by taking the best elements of technology from countries around the world , so free trade is absolutely crucial , but so far he has not made a clear stand on free trade . ’ |
| 7 | However , by taking the wholesale price of two common " low cost " items as a yardstick ( Yagcibedir and Afghan Belouch ) , we can fix the approximate prices of rugs from other groups by referring to them as either plus or minus x per cent . |
| 8 | As a rough guide , the distance in nautical miles over which signals can be received can be estimated by taking the square root of your altitude and multiplying by one and a quarter . |
| 9 | The analysts were concerned at this point with improving their understanding , by taking the conceptual model of the IPS as a starting point , and using the instruments to explore the relationships between the model and the actual situation . |
| 10 | Although it was almost a century before the Ottomans eradicated the last traces of the medieval Serbian empire by taking the Serbian fortress of Smederovo on the Danube in 1459 , the battle of Kosovo sounded the death knell for independent Serbia . |