Example sentences of "by [verb] away from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I am Cambridged out , and it is only by getting away from the familiar that anything good will ( I hope ) emerge . |
| 3 | He does this by moving away from the shoal of fry and then thrashing about in the water as if injured . |
| 4 | By the accepted definitions of dominance and submission , an individual shows submission ultimately by moving away from the dominant , not by following it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It adjoins Aquila , and may be found by sweeping away from the line of stars of which Altair is the central member . |
| 8 | Turning the board around by steering away from the wind and letting the sail pass over the front of the board . |
| 9 | 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 . |