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Example sentences of "[verb] by [v-ing] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	However , for a discount security with more than six months ( 182 days ) to maturity , the bond equivalent yield has to take into account the fact that the corresponding bond makes two coupon payments and that interest is earned by investing the first coupon .
2	the interest earned by reinvesting the first coupon payment at the rate rb for half a year , .
3	The flunkey hesitated , then responded by answering the last question first — with a figure that was nearly four times larger than the largest sum I had thought I might try asking .
4	Coun Chris Abbott hopes that Langbaurgh Council 's £70,000 budget saving by disregarding the first £10 instead of the normal full pension is a misunderstanding .
5	Seventeen random numbers in the range 000 to 200 ( representing the record keys ) can be selected by choosing the first numbers within the required range occurring in a random number table .
6	That the two objectives are interdependent can be demonstrated by examining the first objective .
7	Premiums can also be cut by paying the first £150 or £250 of a claim and some insurers offer no-claim discounts , which should suit the super fit .
8	A further difference arising from naming is indicated by entitling the mid-seventeenth century the Civil War period .
9	Performance is increased by prefetching the next instruction during the execution of the current instruction .
10	Hence the marginal cost of producing the last film must be the value of the meals sacrificed by using the last units of labour to make films rather than meals .
11	Thus scheme six , for instance , might be altered by making the first instalment payable on the 22nd day after the loan and taking 7d per pound for interest .
12	The ratios of proportions in the fourth column of figure 8.6 , calculated by dividing the first column of proportions by the second , tell a rather more convincing story .