Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adopt your normal posture by angling forward from the waist and sitting slightly through the knees . |
| 2 | The character of the whole place is best assessed by walking down from the castle rather than climbing east to west . |
| 3 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |
| 4 | We shall adopt a small arrow as our notation for assignment in this sense , so that ( 31 ) ( excluding irrelevant details like number , and the particular tense employed ) may be represented as ( 35 ) , where we again abbreviate by passing directly from the word forms to the intensional pattern : We may note , by the way , that the copular verb to be is the direct formal representation of the relation of assignment ; this has to be expressed overtly in English ( as well as being indicated by the order of noun and adjective ) , although in many other languages , e.g. Russian and Arabic , no overt exponent is required . |
| 5 | I often use this route as an approach to Shining Clough Rocks by contouring eastwards from the top of the ravine across open moorland , eventually traversing around the headwall of Shining Clough to the impressive crags themselves . |
| 6 | Lay blind out flat with lining uppermost , and mark the position of the lath channel by measuring up from the hemline to a distance equal to the depth of the bottom pelmet . |
| 7 | According to Sprat , then , and others of the Society , knowledge was to be had by turning away from the teachings of the scholastics , from their undue concentration on words , to the world itself . |
| 8 | Reach it by turning left from the Carolinum . |
| 9 | The Russians could avoid the danger of encirclement by withdrawing entirely from the salient , or advance in overwhelming numbers to seize both East Prussia and Galicia . |
| 10 | I am Cambridged out , and it is only by getting away from the familiar that anything good will ( I hope ) emerge . |
| 11 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 12 | ( By moving up from the level of salesman in his insurance company , he 'd sacrificed a firm 's car and was rather careful about using his own . ) |
| 13 | He does this by moving away from the shoal of fry and then thrashing about in the water as if injured . |
| 14 | By the accepted definitions of dominance and submission , an individual shows submission ultimately by moving away from the dominant , not by following it . |
| 15 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 16 | The remainder of the analysis is carried out by ‘ rolling back ’ the decision tree , that is by moving back from the final pay-off figures , node by node , multiplying each pay-off by the probability of each event passed through in the network . |
| 17 | The remainder of the analysis is carried out by ‘ rolling back ’ the decision tree , that is by moving back from the final pay-off figures , node by node , multiplying each pay-off by the probability of each event passed through in the network . |
| 18 | It was from such traditional dance that Fokine , at the instigation of Diaghilev , devised the first truly national ballets by breaking away from the sterotyped steps . |
| 19 | No other of the Impressionists , with the possible exception of Degas , was so popular , and the pathway to his studio was worn out with transatlantic visitors , trying to circumvent his dealer and secure a bargain by buying directly from the artist himself . |
| 20 | This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest . |
| 21 | Okay you start off by finding out from the person how much they think they need . |
| 22 | The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers . |
| 23 | It adjoins Aquila , and may be found by sweeping away from the line of stars of which Altair is the central member . |
| 24 | Turning the board around by steering away from the wind and letting the sail pass over the front of the board . |
| 25 | The presence of a particular motive can only be inferred by working backwards from the behaviour itself . |
| 26 | The unit cell approach has the following advantages : prediction of the overall elastic moduli in terms of the phase moduli ; knowledge of the stress distributions within phases ( relevant to the prediction of failure mechanisms ) , and usable formulae in which the phase moduli and concentration can be substituted or , by working backwards from the overall moduli , from which the phase moduli and concentration can be deduced . |
| 27 | Some teachers might even choose to teach the entire history syllabus by working backwards from the present . |
| 28 | Many primary teachers start investigations of the past by working out from the history of the school , village or local area . |
| 29 | By shying away from the ‘ unpleasant ’ task of spelling out the costs and benefits , society is likely to produce a very inefficient allocation in which the marginal costs and marginal benefits are very different in different activities . |