Example sentences of "by [verb] from [art] " 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 | A situation like this can be covered very succinctly by panning from a shot of the mother to a view of the child who is receding into the distance . |
| 5 | ‘ Companies would benefit by drawing from a wider pool of talent and ability than is currently considered , ’ he writes , ‘ and it would enable them to appoint more women . |
| 6 | The youngster was destined to follow many of his ancestors by dying from the family curse hydrocephalus water on the brain . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | A BUXOM woman stunned pensioner Jack Cookson — by leaping from a car and flashing her boobs . |
| 9 | CLEVELAND police are today hoping to interview a man thought to have made an attempted suicide bid by leaping from a Stockton bridge . |
| 10 | Small daughter polyps can be formed by budding from the base of the parent . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | WAITRESS Delphine Barbiaux served up a surprise — by returning from the ‘ dead ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That being moved by imagining from a sufferer 's viewpoint does draw me towards his goals is sufficiently shown by my impulse to shrink from imagining as painful in itself , and liable to draw me into action against my own interests . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We reduced these variables by sampling from a pool of gastric juice with little mucosal contact and discarding any samples that were obviously contaminated , and the range of resulting values was therefore small . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Simmons dispossessed Meek from the restart and , as he did with his first goal , secured his hat trick by scoring from the centre spot . |
| 19 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 20 | By withdrawing from the game he reveals the relativity and fragility of the play-world in which he had temporarily shut himself with others . |
| 21 | The Northampton wing began the autumn by withdrawing from the England team to play Leicester with a knee injury that needed surgery . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Couples led by four strokes with eight to play , but only forced the play-off by holing from a greenside bunker for a birdie at the last . |
| 25 | Born in Los Angeles , his father a film producer , he had been fascinated by flying from an early age , had taken his pilot 's licence even before going to West Point . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | By moving from a broad treatment of paraprofessionals on a global scale to detailed examination of the training and use of these workers in a number of specific countries , we have sought to capitalize on the complementary strengths of the ‘ macro ’ and ‘ micro ’ approaches to comparative social policy analysis ( Higgins , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | And finally , organisms are not passive recipients of their environments ; they can — animals to a greater extent than plants — choose their environment by moving from a less attractive to a more attractive location . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |