Example sentences of "by their " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of this book , just two assertions will have to content us : first , some works have been intended by their makers to be seen as art ; second , there is a consensus today that other works are to be described as art . |
| 2 | Proust took the view that writers should be judged by their works alone , rather than be interpreted through biography . |
| 3 | It may also give a misleading impression : for example , the work of German Expressionist painters under the banner of the name Die Brücke , Kirchner , Nolde and Pechstein was affected by their practice as print-makers , where some motifs and treatment originated . |
| 4 | The critic 's standing is thereby reduced , and the description or evaluation of the prize works is less than likely to be uninfluenced by their new position . |
| 5 | Hitherto a shameful brothel man , Salim is uplifted by their meetings in his flat : ‘ My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies . ’ |
| 6 | An early passage separates this man , who does not want to be nothing , from the trading elders of his family — pessimists who could take risks , and were consoled by their religion . |
| 7 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 8 | Modern Jews , he affirms , are greedy creatures , tormented by their too many opinions . |
| 9 | By their increase , now knows not which is which . |
| 10 | A performer can only prove his talent by performing — meanwhile by their subscriptions members play an important part in making Equity effective . |
| 11 | But there were undoubted benefits to both church and state in this set of policies , for they were to the mutual advantage of nationalism and catholicism as these were perceived by their respective institutional representatives , namely the politicians and the hierarchy . |
| 12 | They demonstrate this partially by their support for the two nationalist parties , Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party , though support for the latter does not necessarily imply nationalism . |
| 13 | Part of this independence must be attributed to their ownership of houses and schools , paid for directly by their benefactors , payers of school fees , or investment funds . |
| 14 | The prevailing protestant — loyalist beliefs stress the existence of the people of Northern Ireland , who are distinguished by their Ulster protestantism and democratic values , and by their claim to a flexible territory of Ulster . |
| 15 | The prevailing protestant — loyalist beliefs stress the existence of the people of Northern Ireland , who are distinguished by their Ulster protestantism and democratic values , and by their claim to a flexible territory of Ulster . |
| 16 | The Irish people are defined primarily by their allegiance to the present restricted or future enlarged republic , but it is popularly understood that they will normally have the further characteristics of Gaelic Irishness . |
| 17 | Their attitudes were shared by their priest-sons , who in their turn were supported by Rome , whose solid opposition to socialism until the 1960s was very clear ( e.g. Pope Leo XIII , 1903 ) . |
| 18 | O'Carroll sees such positions exemplified by the protagonists ' refusal to accept that certain therapeutic abortions already permitted in Ireland were actually abortions and by their predictions of social chaos should they fail in their fight : ‘ Hence phrases such as ‘ the opening of the floodgates ’ , ‘ the thin end of the wedge ’ , ‘ the slippery slope ’ , ‘ the permissive society ’ , and ‘ the abortion mentality ’ ’ ( 1983 : 12 ) . |
| 19 | There can be no question that the bishops are not in any way aware of this arrogation , as it is mediated in consciousness by their belief in , and conceptualization of , a static natural law which is accessible , even if with difficulty , to the conscience of everyman ; which same natural law no one should be allowed to violate , even if in error , when that law , if broken , is seen to threaten the very moral fabric of society . |
| 20 | The belief is to some degree affected by being told so by their authoritative pastors . |
| 21 | Until recently , catholics in the North were practically forbidden by their clergy to attend state schools , exceptions being made in certain outlying areas . |
| 22 | Stouts today are not exceptionally strong — usually in the low 1040s OG — and are distinguished by a high hop rate and by their jet black or dark brown colour achieved by the use of roasted malts and unmalted roasted barley . |
| 23 | The Thirties Society has tried to counteract the brewers ' failure to understand the potential assets represented by their 20th century buildings , but since so few pubs are listed many cases escape our notice . |
| 24 | Chinese markets sell the juncea leaves , usually by their Cantonese name pak choi . |
| 25 | It was a book of photographs of London between the wars — a slightly tactless gesture as I was only eleven when World War Two was declared , but the sentiments were , I sensed , sincere , so I was touched by their kindness . |
| 26 | While I was sitting waiting for Jenny , a number of well-dressed women of about my age filed past me , some of them evidently wearied by their afternoon of serious picture-watching . |
| 27 | No doubt they are being told by their elders , as a friend informed his grand-daughter , to turn left at Gibraltar ! |
| 28 | The rootstocks were developed at government research stations and are still known by their reference numbers . |
| 29 | Many women have a special , influential role in family health , such as in making decisions about the family 's diet and in educating children by their example . |
| 30 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |