Example sentences of "[noun] from a distance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golden eagles can see a hare from a distance of 3.2km ( 2 miles ) if the light is good . |
| 2 | When we had a chance to view the boat from a distance with the wind at the bottom end of Force 6 , we noticed that the overlapping headsail lost its shape quite badly when half-furled . |
| 3 | The spitting cobras of Africa are capable of shooting their venom at an enemy from a distance of 6 feet , causing eye damage and severe pain . |
| 4 | Do n't get drawn into committing your supporting troops into combat if they can just as easily pin down the enemy from a distance . |
| 5 | They watched the crucifixion from a distance . |
| 6 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 7 | Almost all of these are now covered in a spurious black patina ( plate 8.3 ) ; indeed one can go through the sculpture galleries of the Greek and Roman Department and pick out the Payne Knight pieces from a distance , before checking against the registration number which invariably begins with 1824 . |
| 8 | The soldier was able to pick out his target in Copperfield Street from a distance of several hundred yards — and hit it with one shot . |
| 9 | To measure long or short-sightedness , a narrow beam of light is shone into the eye from a distance of about two feet . |
| 10 | But I will be cheering on the Boro from a distance . ’ |
| 11 | Those who have viewed the Lombardy Plain from a distance will know that even on clear days Milan has its own atmosphere , the way that other cities do , although , in fairness , it is very much less than many others , despite its low-lying position . |
| 12 | You should always watch nests from a distance . |
| 13 | And electricity , gas and water boards are involved in an unprecedented joint effort to develop ways to read customers ' meters from a distance . |
| 14 | ‘ We can look down on Seal Court from a distance . |
| 15 | Douse with water if possible , but do n't throw on water from a distance , as this creates scalding steam and only spreads the flames . |
| 16 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 17 | We keep an eye on things from a distance , and we occasionally arrange to have somebody put under permanent sedation , but we do n't purge . |
| 18 | I had seen the snake things from a distance . |
| 19 | Whatever , they would run from me , or shout rude things from a distance , so I kept a low profile and restricted my brief visits to the town to a taciturn minimum . |
| 20 | Education from a distance . |
| 21 | This may be simply defined as the ability to discriminate highly contrasted figures from a distance . |
| 22 | Their elders in more serious mood watch from a distance the Charge of the Light Brigade and , in the course of discussing the future of their young relatives , indulge in a dispute for and against the innovation of steam in naval vessels . |
| 23 | We had often seen its crumbling ramparts from a distance , and had assumed it was Dutch , but now learnt that it had been built by the islanders , long before the Europeans . |
| 24 | Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away . |
| 25 | Three shots to the body , hoping for a kill from a distance . |
| 26 | No proper photographs of Stretford Bridge Halt have come to light ; only views from a distance . |
| 27 | Sandy 's red Jaguar was parked behind a dense hedge , the twigs so close together they formed a visual barrier from a distance . |
| 28 | Unlike them , Mary Queen of Scots did not see complexities in the situation ; like her grandson Charles I after her , she assumed that the expression of the royal will from a distance was enough to make problems go away . |
| 29 | There is a sort of agony in loving a man from a distance , especially as if you know that your own twin sister is as good as promised to him . |
| 30 | Sometimes an additional flat is vacant for visiting family or friends from a distance who wish to stay overnight . |