Example sentences of "by taking the [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you think that Chronic Urethritis may be a problem , you can help yourself by taking the following measures : drinking a glass of water before you have intercourse , so that you fill your bladder ; making sure that you use a vaginal lubricant and relax as much as possible ; and the by remembering to empty your bladder soon after intercourse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps this can be made clearer by taking the specific example of somebody who has an anxiety attack whilst shopping in a supermarket . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | By taking the right measures , every home could save £100 a year and reduce its annual carbon dioxide contribution by 1.5 tons , a cut of 20 per cent . |
| 19 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But they will begin life by taking the 20 years ' accumulation of magnesium oxide cladding from around uranium fuel rods used in the Magnox reactors . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So with me it started off by taking the top strings off and playing bass . |
| 28 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | He began by taking the wrong road out of Burford , then tried this lane to get back to the A40 . |