The phrase "an instance of taking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific occurrence or example of taking something, whether it be an action, decision, or event.
Example: "This is an instance of taking responsibility for one's actions, which is commendable."
Alternatives: "a case of taking" or "an example of taking".
Asked if the situation was arbitrary — an instance of politics' taking precedence over the rule of law, in which a court ruling would provide legal cover for a political agreement — he shook his head.
Pages and pages of "Northanger" are devoted literally to manner: to the logistics, for instance, of taking a long walk.
Not every instance of taking oneself to remember that p is an instance of actually remembering that p. We should distinguish, therefore, between remembering that p (which entails the truth of p) and seeming to remember that p (which does not entail the truth of p).
The only children surveyed had the highest instance of taking financial risks, such as borrowing for short-term investments or investing in risky ventures.
As the lion-man carried Madonna to the Venetian palace, it symbolized an instance of the Saint taking the simulated Virgin, where Madonna became a symbol for La Serenissima, the Republic itself.
For instance, as Reed (1979) argues, dreams can still count as deceptive even if they do not involve strongly appraisive beliefs, but only minimally appraisive instances of taking for granted.
Years before his other well-known instances of taking flight – from criminal cases in Madera County, Orange County and, finally, from the Orange County jail itself -- Hossein Nayeri fled his post as a U.S. Marine.
An instance of a reconstruction procedure taking advantage of this notion of metabolic context is again pathologic, which infers the presence of pathways rather than that of single reactions when possible.
The most likely explanation for the presence of this mutation in LWS branch 2 (figure 1 b) is an instance of paternal leakage that took place in generation S39 (electronic supplementary material).
Microsoft abandoned its own appeal in the Court of First Instance instead of taking it to the highest-possible level of appeal, the European Court of Justice.
