Example sentences of "[verb] by taking the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It starts by taking the present population a as the population of the base year , and proceeds to age the population , er adding births and subtracting deaths to get a population in the projection years . |
| 2 | Normalisation is done by taking the average rate of growth exhibited by the extra-area trading balances . |
| 3 | He began by taking the wrong road out of Burford , then tried this lane to get back to the A40 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even Sir Leon Brittan , an ardent supporter of EMU , had explained that ‘ a central bank … can make full employment harder to achieve by taking the wrong decisions ’ . |
| 6 | The European Commission has issued a draft Council directive , and negotiations are currently taking place to determine its final form : in general , it proceeds by taking the strictest protections from national law as the new European standard . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |