Example sentences of "by their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet now , the Kidderminster Christians felt somewhat betrayed by their former pastor . |
| 2 | They were joined by their former Troop commander , Captain G.C.S. Montanaro ( Royal Engineers ) . |
| 3 | Many of the cases , such as Seager v Copydex ( 1967 ) 1 WLR 923 , concerned actual or threatened breaches by ex-employees in relation to information given to them by their former employers , and where they wanted to exploit it to their own benefit . |
| 4 | A Berlin research institute is developing a scheme by which micro-organisms will feed on abandoned Trabant cars , large numbers of which have been discarded by their former East German owners in favour of more modern Western models . |
| 5 | Only a superb performance by their former reserve goalkeeper Steve Pears prevented United going into the second leg at Old Trafford next Wednesday with a commanding lead . |
| 6 | After drawing the home leg 0–0 Boro were denied victory by their former central defender Gary Pallister , who cleared a John Hendrie shot off the line with ten minutes to go . |
| 7 | The Tynecastle men simply can not play well against the side managed by their former manager , Alex MacDonald , and illustrated that fact once again on Saturday . |
| 8 | At the beginner 's level , it is deemed sensible that the student is n't confused by their many names . |
| 9 | The only small crumb of comfort is that , since May 1990 , tenants ( but not managers ) of national brewers ' pubs can buy guest cask ales free of the tie — but the nationals have been quick to dominate this new market niche by organising their own lists of ‘ guest beers ’ , many of them brewed by their own subsidiaries . |
| 10 | The university welcomes them as a source of income ; some students are funded by their own governments to obtain a doctorate and enter public service . |
| 11 | Normal individuals maintain the concentration of blood sugar at a constant level by their own insulin , which causes cells in muscle , liver and fatty tissue — target cells — to take up excess circulating sugar and store it . |
| 12 | Those that had not fled out of fear , political animosity to the Bolsheviks , or for lack of food and pay , were apt to be shackled as much by their own situation as by peasant recalcitrance to learn . |
| 13 | Some were split and bent almost double by their own mass , which meant you could charge straight up them into the lower branches six feet above ground . |
| 14 | A little scared , since they were then all very young and had believed the stuff about painless childbirth , and a little over-excited by their own courage and naughtiness , but completely present for her — not as grown-ups to a child , but as women . |
| 15 | The two of them were overcome with giggles , shaken by their own senseless amusement . |
| 16 | Under docks and willowherb , the Bunker was still there , sealed but poisoned and poisonous , in a haunted city the spectres of an evil past still emanating from it , not least the ghosts of the six children of the Goebbels , killed by their own parents as a final insane act of homage to Der Führer . |
| 17 | Many of their young men are going forward to train as priests , and at some time in the near future the people will be ministered to by their own men . |
| 18 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 19 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 20 | US State Department experts on Latin America fear that the longer the military resistance against the US troops continues in Panama , the more the Latin Americans are likely to be driven by their own domestic public opinion to voice protests at the US action . |
| 21 | By contrast , there were clear advantages if people were motivated by their own self-interest to restrain greenhouse emissions . |
| 22 | A paralysed economy at home , and the substitution of pragmatism for ideology by most Africans , has left his international brigades without a role , having lost ( by their own admission ) more than 2,000 dead . |
| 23 | The Kurds ' efforts to improve their lot have been blocked by their own tribal and ideological divisions , and by international indifference to their cause . |
| 24 | Unlike temporarily hidden things , these can not ‘ become evident by their own nature ’ , but we can ‘ nevertheless know and understand [ them ] through something else ’ . |
| 25 | It is well defended , surrounded by high walls , quite beyond the powers of the Israelite tribes to destroy by their own unaided efforts . |
| 26 | Although prepared to get into the occasional lather over the destruction of ‘ heritage ’ , many have little time for old money , and profess their heroes to be self-made men who have succeeded by their own efforts . |
| 27 | Because she and the others like her rose by their own merits , they dislike those born above them . |
| 28 | Faced with a massive majority in the House of Commons and racked by their own internal problems , for much of the decade the opposition parties had a distinctly toothless appearance . |
| 29 | Even those on the ground , by their own admission , were puzzled . |
| 30 | Nor , by their own account , did dozens of others . |