Example sentences of "by [v-ing] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | John puts himself at risk by hanging from the bannister ( line 13 ) . |
| 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 | WAITRESS Delphine Barbiaux served up a surprise — by returning from the ‘ dead ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The remaining passengers — there were not many of them — had in the meanwhile managed to make their way , by scrambling from the outside of one car to the next , to the safety of the solid wooden landing stage . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Simmons dispossessed Meek from the restart and , as he did with his first goal , secured his hat trick by scoring from the centre spot . |
| 13 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 14 | By withdrawing from the game he reveals the relativity and fragility of the play-world in which he had temporarily shut himself with others . |
| 15 | The Northampton wing began the autumn by withdrawing from the England team to play Leicester with a knee injury that needed surgery . |
| 16 | They would like to extract a declaration of intent , making it clear that , when the time comes , Israel will indeed implement Resolution 242 by withdrawing from the occupied lands . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I used the time by moving from the Temple to Peel Square — not a formidable job , for it required only a suitcase and a taxi . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | During February and March there were signs that the Croatian and Macedonian LCs were preparing to emulate the Slovene party by splitting from the LCY . |
| 25 | The speeds of the east-west winds have been obtained , in effect , by subtracting from the axial sidereal rotation rate of a cloud feature the System III sidereal rotation rate . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Gómez , who was judged seriously to have weakened the conservative constituency by breaking from the PSC to form the MSN , had also proposed that cocaine be legalized internationally in order to undermine cartel power , and that the UN narcotics commission should directly intervene to produce a peace formula which would enable the cartel chiefs to surrender themselves . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As for the second , we have undermined its apparent logic by approaching from the opposite direction ; what is self-evident is that a person should prefer his reaction in fullest awareness , what would require proof is a claim that the awareness should be from all spatial and temporal but only one personal viewpoint . |