Example sentences of "by [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It frightens off greenfly by manufacturing their alarm chemicals itself . |
| 2 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 3 | However , other manufacturers , including the largest , Sir Robert Peel , found an alternative to both men and machinery by relocating their firms where cheap female labour was available to hand paint the cloth or else to print with wooden blocks studded with thousands of pins instead of the engraved blocks cut by the journeymen . |
| 4 | Nigel told how his branch had once decided to mount a recruitment campaign by publicizing their opposition to ‘ problem families ’ being housed in a middle-class area . |
| 5 | Indeed , they are keen to advertise the fact by stamping their personalities on their home , something which is evidenced by looking at homes in Britain which have passed from public to private ownership . |
| 6 | They all ate and drank , and celebrated the end of the sheep-shearing by singing their favourite songs . |
| 7 | The proseution , calling on boxes of financial records and documents , say How deceived his investors by channelling their savings into speculative building projects in France . |
| 8 | The wisdom of such a policy hinges on the likelihood of whether conglomerates will systematically misuse inside information by breaching their Chinese Walls to make a profit or avoid a loss ? |
| 9 | However , there is a distinction between their own conclusions , and inviting them to draw a particular conclusion by inflaming their suspicions . |
| 10 | Symbolically , by writing letters , and directly , with financial payments or by assisting their victim . |
| 11 | The mite is just visible to the naked eye and feeds on honey bees and their grubs by sucking their body fluids . |
| 12 | Denbighshire have matched Flintshire 's show of strength by naming their most formidable line-up in pursuit of the coveted last-four ticket . |
| 13 | If you feel you often get unnecessarily short shrift in your interviews with professionals a question you must ask yourself is whether you have created an unfavourable impression by wasting their time in the past . |
| 14 | As there was no established pattern of dancing attached to ‘ trad ’ they let off steam by inventing their own steps , often with wild abandon . |
| 15 | Pupils could convey messages to each other by inventing their own sign language . |
| 16 | Doubtless the police had responded to my call by sharpening their cutlasses and charging their muskets , she mocked , in readiness for an invasion of Murder Cay ? |
| 17 | They were rewarded by seeing their man , a 2-handicapper in a scratch field , card a courageous 72 for 138 . |
| 18 | Was Willis reading too much into their behaviour by seeing their ‘ resistance ’ as leading to an awareness of their class position ? |
| 19 | They justify what they do by seeing their potential customers as they would like them to be , rather than as they are . |
| 20 | Local governments with high tax rates would be forced to reduce the rate of tax on salt to that pertaining in lower-rate localities , or else lose revenue by seeing their residents travel to purchase salt elsewhere . |
| 21 | By seeing their work at first hand , they 're hoping he 'll be convinced of the need for more officers . |
| 22 | especially when the " coalies " tried to keep open their avenue of escape by parading their Liberalism . |
| 23 | After 1400 , it has been noted , lawyers in the Parlement of Paris consistently tried to show the respectability of their soldier-clients by underlining their service to the king and the public good : ‘ … a longuement servy le roy ’ ; ‘ … tient frontier contre les enemis ’ ; ‘ … il a esté grevé car lui estant en expedicion pour la chose publique ’ are phrases which , when used regularly , tell us something of the values of the society in which they are uttered , and of the soldier 's role in it . |
| 24 | ‘ Men set ridiculous store by perpetuating their family name , ’ Catherine said stoutly . |
| 25 | They replace traditional legitimations of power by appearing in the mantle of modern science and by deriving their justification from the critique of ideology . |
| 26 | Sometimes , though , an adult gets its own back on such short-changers by accepting their sperm , not for fertilisation , but as a welcome snack . |
| 27 | Or was the lancelet-shape the more ancient pattern from which animals like sea squirts developed by sticking their heads to rocks , losing their muscles and retreating into as undemanding a life-style as the seas can provide ? |
| 28 | When he smiles , he looks slightly goofy , the skin pulled right over his cheeks like the face children make by sticking their fingers in the corners of their mouths . |
| 29 | BP 's customers too have been following the trend by producing their plastic products more efficiently . |
| 30 | The source modules can then be entered into LIFESPAN as soon as they have module headers , by including their module names into a package module header . |