Example sentences of "[noun] by [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The company says the deal gives it the opportunity to distribute financial information to clients ' branch offices by using their own hardware and networks . |
| 3 | Lean and Pearce wrote in August 1988 , ‘ In theory Local Authorities could fill some of this gap by taking their own samples of drinking water . |
| 4 | The judge said he believed the parties intended the reference to be a valuation , because of the appointment as the " arbitrators " of a seedsman and a market gardener , both being , in his view , eminently suitable persons to assess the compensation by exercising their own skill and knowledge without any evidence or witnesses being called before them . |
| 5 | We do accuse the Liberal Democrats of jumping on the bandwagon at a late stage , but in this they are running true to form and they are confusing the issue by doing their own irrelevant thing . |
| 6 | An integral answerphone will be included , as will Smart Card technology to enable users to share a phone by inserting their own cards . |
| 7 | Pupils could convey messages to each other by inventing their own sign language . |
| 8 | Led by conductor Richard McNicol , pupils and teachers from 27 Cleveland primary schools have been exploring Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition by composing their own versions of it . |
| 9 | They express their anger by destroying their own lives and thereby hurting others , while seeming to be wide-eyed and innocent . |
| 10 | Hence , someone wishing to finance a catering enterprise may have to guarantee the loan by using their own personal assets , e.g. their house , as security . |
| 11 | They 'd answer the outside world by giving their own authorised version of the intervening years . |
| 12 | A group of schoolchildren are drawing attention to the threat to tropical rainforests by composing their own ecological symphony . |
| 13 | In view of this possibility , both the Carlists and the Falangists decided to forestall an imposed unification by negotiating their own , spontaneous merger . |
| 14 | In other words , his strategy was to gain leverage over his powerful patrons by manipulating their own publics against them . |
| 15 | Media students have made broadcast history by launching their own local radio station . |
| 16 | Some horses indulge in this self-orientated activity by biting their own sides or legs , even to the extent of tearing their own flesh so that they bleed . |
| 17 | Instead of projecting their own imaginings onto the forms of faceless archetypes , women surrealists tapped into their subconscious by taking their own bodies as source and subject matter . |
| 18 | Poxviruses overcome this problem by encoding their own enzymes for transcription and RNA modification . |
| 19 | As there was no established pattern of dancing attached to ‘ trad ’ they let off steam by inventing their own steps , often with wild abandon . |
| 20 | Orange and black meant Strathclyde , green and cream West Yorkshire , and yellow and white Tyne & Wear , as passenger transport executives provided public proof of their interest ( and subsidy ) of metropolitan rail services by applying their own liveries . |
| 21 | Things may change after April 2nd , when retail prices are to rise by 60% , though most workers are too afraid of plunging the country into chaos to give the miners whole-hearted support by staging their own strikes . |
| 22 | Finally , they could contribute to the farm income by running their own tourist enterprise . |
| 23 | Non-scientific discourses , like law and literary studies , address subjectivity by deploying their own concepts of the subject . |