Example sentences of "by [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reduce the distance to the ground by hanging from the wall , look down to your landing space , and as you drop , push yourself away to avoid bashing into the wall . |
| 2 | John puts himself at risk by hanging from the bannister ( line 13 ) . |
| 3 | He had even tried to stretch himself by hanging from the limb of a tree by his hands until the skin on his palms was blistered . |
| 4 | The youngster was destined to follow many of his ancestors by dying from the family curse hydrocephalus water on the brain . |
| 5 | Shevardnadze stunned the Congress by announcing from the podium on Dec. 20 that he was resigning in protest at the ascendency of reactionary forces , and what he called the " onset of dictatorship " . |
| 6 | Small daughter polyps can be formed by budding from the base of the parent . |
| 7 | Again and again , Tracy upstaged Gable by returning from the point of death with a weak smile until Gable finally dropped Tracy and yelled , ‘ Die , goddammit , Spence ! |
| 8 | Some time before my arrival the permanent staff had surprised all the other R.A.F. prisoners in Germany by escaping from the camp by a tunnel . |
| 9 | Genetic engineering has reached a point of such sophistication that there are clear benefits to be gained by releasing from the laboratory living organisms upon which have been conferred characteristics they could never have acquired through the normal processes of evolution or selective breeding . |
| 10 | Simmons dispossessed Meek from the restart and , as he did with his first goal , secured his hat trick by scoring from the centre spot . |
| 11 | By withdrawing from the game he reveals the relativity and fragility of the play-world in which he had temporarily shut himself with others . |
| 12 | The dispute had begun in April 1989 when Pittston announced that it intended to cut costs by withdrawing from the Association of Coalmine Operators , the body responsible for negotiating labour contracts with the UMW on an industry-wide basis and for providing health and pension benefits . |
| 13 | Both Weston and Olson , for instance , found that teachers involved in the Schools Council Integrated Science Project ( SCISP ) , breached the project 's guidelines by teaching from the board and encouraging pupils to revise — and that these teachers referred to the presence of examinations as the reason for their continuing use of these transmission-like styles of teaching . |
| 14 | All this was to be achieved by heading straight for Kuwait City and pinning down the Iraqis there ; and then by moving from the west in substantial force , enveloping and destroying Iraq 's elite reserve , the Republican Guard , with its T-72 tanks , described by French sources as ‘ the priority target . |
| 15 | After three years of property slump in the home counties it has never been easier to leap over the Watford Gap by moving from the north to the south . |
| 16 | Since the relevant ones will be concentrated in one area of the inverted tree they can be quickly located by moving from the root downwards and along the correct branches , without ever having to search the whole database . |
| 17 | A new book or topic in history is best approached by moving from the general to the particular , and from the simple text to the complex one . |
| 18 | Those unhappy with the " confessional " model , mostly in its Christian form , have over the years sought to escape from the dilemma — unconsciously or consciously — by subtracting from the equation of RE all that is controversial and likely to cause trouble . |
| 19 | on the one hand Henry Yaxlee had clearly survived and prospered where the great family had not , and he 'd achieved his success by breaking from the past . |
| 20 | Yvonne Orsett introduced herself , originally , by buying from the stall whenever she saw it , then came donations of bric-a-brac , small craft items and the beautiful baby clothes knitted by her mother who has won prizes locally . |
| 21 | By starting from the premise that the historical moment had arrived to sweep away not only the nihilistic , angst-ridden literature of modernism but also the crass simplicity of Stalinist socialist realism , Lukacs envisaged the possibility of a beneficial mutual interaction between bourgeois critical realism and a rejuvenated socialist realism . |
| 22 | By progressing from the sampling of collections to storing details of every object in a computer database , we have therefore simply transferred our allegiance from sampling theory to graph theory . |
| 23 | Stripped of its deviousness , the doctrine can be interpreted to imply that ‘ god ’ will supply the wants of the improvident by taking from the provident . |
| 24 | Then , as the train follows the curve of the track , over the top of Nettles brewery you can see , by swinging from the luggage rack , all four gantries . |
| 25 | The definition of ‘ consecutive ’ or ‘ non-selected ’ asthmatics was strictly adhered to by excluding from the study all those referred for investigation because of gastrointestinal signs or symptoms . |
| 26 | This implies that , for long-term survival , it is in the best interests of the salesperson and his or her company to identify customer needs and aid customer decision-making by selecting from the product range those products which best fit the customer 's requirements . |
| 27 | Though state-owned companies are able to achieve keener interest rates by borrowing from the Government through the National Loan Fund , they are constrained in the amount they can borrow and the uses to which the money can be put because all such borrowings count towards the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 28 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 29 | Money supply will rise if ( a ) banks choose to hold a lower liquidity ratio and thus create more credit for an existing amount of liquidity ; ( b ) there is a total currency flow surplus ; ( c ) the government runs a PSBR and finances it by borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad ; ( d ) the government switches its method of financing the national debt to borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad . |
| 30 | Discount houses , in turn , balance their position , if short of funds , either by selling eligible bills to the Bank or by borrowing from the Bank . |