Example sentences of "by taking the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do yourself and the community a favour by taking the rusty iron and junk you find to the nearest litter bin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Normalisation is done by taking the average rate of growth exhibited by the extra-area trading balances . |
| 5 | It is possible from the village , without too much effort , to survey the great wilderness of Fisherfield Forest from the east by taking the private road to the little huddle of buildings known as the Heights of Kinlochewe and thence following a rising track to the left until the vast amphitheatre is revealed in a surround of formidable mountains of which Slioch and Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair are now the most prominent . |
| 6 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 7 | This was certainly brought home to me when , by taking the long way round Australia this year , i.e. buying a round the world ticket to the Australian Open , rather than a straight forward London–Melbourne return , with a stop-off in Sydney for the New South Wales Open , I saved The Daily Telegraph , which is naturally as cost conscious as any other company in these difficult financial times , a considerable amount of money . |
| 8 | Perhaps this can be made clearer by taking the specific example of somebody who has an anxiety attack whilst shopping in a supermarket . |
| 9 | I studied at the Scuole Medie in the Istituto Melloni , which would enable me , after four years , to choose either a classical or a scientific education by taking the appropriate examination . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Taking a random page from the writings of Karl Popper , one can see the structure of the discourse in skeleton form by taking the first phrase or sentence of each paragraph . |
| 12 | The notes , if not all the articulation , may be reconstructed from the Oeuvres complètes ( illus.4 ) by taking the two violin parts and bass , and ignoring the rest ignoring , that is , the newly composed viola line , the first bassoon ( much but not all of it derived from the viola ) , both the oboe parts and those passages where flutes double the violins at the octave . |
| 13 | The Government must look to be fairer to London , with equalisation at least in the grants system — perhaps on the basis of incomes , or by taking the regional banding approach . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By taking the little branch line which had been built in the park of the palace of Saint Cloud , the imperial train could go around Paris and then rejoin the main line to the eastern frontier , where the army was assembling at Metz . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whatever the specialised interests of visitors to this region , they can gain a reasonable general orientation of it before starting their particular excursions , by taking the 3 hour boat trip from Luzern to Fluelen or vice versa . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |
| 21 | He began by taking the wrong road out of Burford , then tried this lane to get back to the A40 . |
| 22 | The Renegades were 6–5 ahead and looking good , but Robert Hunter was the Kop 's saviour by taking the last game . |
| 23 | Then the Einstein equation is The choice of the constant of proportionality will be justified in Section 7.4 by taking the classical limit and showing that Newton 's law of gravitation is then obtained . |