Example sentences of "their [noun] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More frequently they try to manipulate the media to their advantage by the selective release of carefully timed and adjusted information and by threatening , punishing , and intimidating media staff . |
| 2 | In the United Kingdom the Roman Catholic and Republican minority of Northern Ireland took to the streets in protest against the injustices meted out to their kind by the Provincial Government and condoned in Whitehall ( see Cameron Report 1969 Cmd 532 ) . |
| 3 | Halfway through their feeding by the two adult bluetits , a pair of blackbirds appeared on the scene … and began to provide second helpings to every meal ! |
| 4 | Colin and Eamon Meehan claimed that they were not guilty of trying to buy weapons in the US for the Provisional IRA because their internment by the British in the 1970s drove them insane . |
| 5 | For the historian , then , the problem becomes one of discovering the contours of Victorian sexual mores without surrendering to facile generalisations , for despite a plethora of studies we are still woefully ignorant of general trends in the development of sexual attitudes , of their effects on individual lives , and of the particular meanings given to their activities by the sexual subjects in all their variety — by class , by gender , by generation and by region . |
| 6 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 7 | The Conservatives increased their vote by the sensational proportion of 37 per cent . |
| 8 | If the Liberals had increased their vote by the same percentage as Labour , Neil Kinnock would sleep tonight in Downing Street . |
| 9 | In 1940 Scotland was ‘ invaded ’ by thousands of Polish soldiers , driven from their homeland by the German army . |
| 10 | Promises fulfilled — people standing on their heads by the dozen . |
| 11 | But it would be useful to give some brief background of their incorporation by the Christian Church . |
| 12 | Above : The family open their presents by the magnificent marble fireplace in the living room |
| 13 | They stress the theory-laden character of our pictures of the world and the extent to which scientists are said to be influenced in their thinking by the social factor of the spirit of the age . |
| 14 | Organisations can only achieve their goals by the coordinated efforts of their members . |
| 15 | I have known colleagues gleefully purging their shelves by the linear metre and filling skips by the ton often in the cause of some new fad or fashion such as trying ‘ face-on ’ display … |
| 16 | The chemicals company , ICI , which has 10 per cent of the world market in CFCs , undertook to end their manufacture by the same date . |
| 17 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 18 | And the records at St Albans and Stamford show that these permanent buildings had made their appearance by the early fourteenth century . |
| 19 | If a centre has a Validation Procedures Agreement with the Council the progress of its submissions after their approval by the Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee is as prescribed by that agreement . |
| 20 | This will involve the submission and testing of their product by the potential customer , who will ensure that it meets his technical and operating requirements . |
| 21 | Three women are plucked at random from their seats by the great Dame 's magic purple possum plucker to nose around someone 's house . |
| 22 | Yes , erm , when Harlow was designed , it was appreciated that its , the , its purpose was to house workers in the factories and the offices and also to act as an overspill from London , and in nineteen sixty when Cossors were bringing their workers by the hundreds |
| 23 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 24 | Her insistence on the importance of middle-class women 's participation in social disciplining was clearly an attempt to guard against their displacement by the growing authority of state sanctioned professionals in the mid-Victorian period . |
| 25 | To examine the 1977 Additonal Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on International Humanitarian Law with a view to their ratification by the British government |
| 26 | In both 1845 and 1862 they were encouraged to assist their education by the same means , and the 1870 Act created school boards and the London Schools Board . |
| 27 | Even the parents had stopped chattering , watching with communal pride the appreciation of their efforts by the reprieved animals . |
| 28 | They were directed back to their positions by the first assistant and his megaphone , and a second take began ; Miranda was now able to make some sketches of the action as well , as she knew its shape . |
| 29 | This had generally taken three forms , of which the largest was remittances to their families by the large number of Palestinians from the territories working in the Gulf and elsewhere . |
| 30 | The Romano-British potters , especially those at Colchester and in the Nene Valley , produced their figures by the barbotine method of applying thick slip to the surface of the vessel by squeezing it from a funnel , very similar to the modern technique of decorating and icing a cake . |