Example sentences of "by [noun] [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , any company intent on controlling expenditure should be examining how much it should be laying off risk in this way when , as Drew Hardie , divisional director of Willis Corroon in Edinburgh , points out , ‘ insurance is a cost-plus product with a substantial proportion of premiums — say , 30 per cent or 40 per cent — used by insurers to meet their own overheads ’ . |
| 2 | Each person by law receives their own bill . |
| 3 | In an interview with the Financial Times of Sept. 24 , Gaidar said that in order to tighten monetary policy the government needed to carry out ( i ) a negotiated exit from the rouble zone by countries creating their own currencies [ see below for Russia 's suspension of financial transactions with Ukraine ] ; ( ii ) a reduction of Russian central bank credits to state enterprises ; and ( iii ) a swift privatization of large state enterprises . |
| 4 | Some celebrated empirical studies of work groups have argued that so-called restrictive practices usually reflect the attempt by workers to impose their own definition of a fair day 's work . |
| 5 | Years ago , pests were controlled naturally , by one animal species feeding off another — the ‘ pest ’ — or by plants developing their own disease resistance . |
| 6 | According to this view , organisms are simply survival machines , constructed by genes to ensure their own replication . |