Example sentences of "their [noun sg] by [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women 's discourse may only be a flawed copy of its male counterpart , but , as Irigaray shows , women can use this apparent deficiency to their advantage by allowing the ‘ bad copy ’ to become a subversive caricature in which the difference between the double and the ‘ original ’ reveals the gender bias underlying male discourse and ( male ) subjectivity ( 1977:73–4 ) . |
| 2 | Now local schoolchildren are being invited to play their part by naming the centre , a focal point of environmental activities in the Wyre Estuary Park . |
| 3 | She separated herself from their intimacy by putting the forks precisely away in a drawer , where other forks were . |
| 4 | The Hawick mills were suffering so much from a lack of orders in the second half of 1991 that JR , a regional councillor for the town , lambasted his colleagues for not doing their bit by sporting the jumpers that have given the Borders a worldwide reputation . |
| 5 | Newco should be conscious that the vendor 's solicitors may seek to limit their exposure by diluting the certificate . |
| 6 | It is the Bible 's primary purpose to bring men to their Saviour by arousing the beginnings of faith . |
| 7 | In particular , they supported their case by invoking the plight of the ‘ surplus ’ women , who , through no fault of their own , found themselves either reliant on the good offices of a male relative or obliged to earn their own living . |
| 8 | In the sixteenth century , rents and entry fines began to rise again , and lords no longer felt it desirable to ensure their income by lengthening the terms of leases , when frequent renegotiation of these could give them more opportunities to raise rents . |
| 9 | THERE is no need for Mr Smith to impose taxes on capital or on financial institutions though : his policies look set to do their damage by knocking the most valuable asset owned by most voters — their homes . |
| 10 | In order to establish the retrieval interpretation of latent inhibition it is necessary to demonstrate , therefore , that contextual cues do indeed have their effect by fostering the retrieval of previously acquired information . |
| 11 | The pot-bellied tosser told me that the club wished to make a gesture in recognition of all I had done for the ‘ Stiffs ’ during my spell as manager , and after much discussion it was agreed that they could best show their appreciation by raising the price of my season ticket for next year by 25 per cent . |
| 12 | The services are targeted at customers with 1,000 personal computers or more , multinational companies , or companies with a lot of branches , and are intended to provide such organisations with a better return on their investment by attacking the hidden costs of installation , support , and implementation of an ever-increasing number of upgrades . |
| 13 | Swindon Town have strengthened their side by signing the former Spurs and England defender Terry Fenwick on a one year contract … |
| 14 | It seems that the construction workers building galleries in total darkness get their bearings and coordinate their work by sensing the magnetic field of the earth . |
| 15 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 16 | In consequence , the Joint Contract Tribunal ( JCT ) extended their terms of reference to assume responsibility for the production of standard forms of subcontract and at the same time enlarged their membership by inviting the two main subcontractors ' organisations to become constituent bodies . |
| 17 | The Scarponis harvest their crop by beating the bush with a stick so that the ripe berries fall into the conciola — the whicker basket traditionally used to collect and sieve juniper . |
| 18 | SPITFIRE — last minute replacements for the ironically ailing Dr Phibes — dig deep as well , living up to their name by frazzling the dreadheads with some painfully raw guitar trash . |
| 19 | Set a massive 440 after being dismissed for a paltry 96 in their first innings , the champions showed their pedigree by reaching the target with four wickets to spare . |
| 20 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 21 | Then Margaret Thatcher spoiled their fun by abolishing the council five years ago . |
| 22 | Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " . |
| 23 | She had ended their relationship by rediscovering the ability to speak and berating his sexual performance . |
| 24 | But here Mr Lawson does not seem to be quite so indifferent to the behaviour of consenting adults : he has been endeavouring to control their behaviour by altering the price at which they can borrow . |
| 25 | He measured their distance by charting the galaxy 's spectrum , and measuring how much the wavelengths are stretched by the expansion of the Universe — in other words , how far the spectral lines are ‘ red shifted ’ along the spectrum . |
| 26 | BALLYMENA opened their season by making the long trip to the Scottish Borders where they defeated Hawick after leading 13-0 at the interval . |
| 27 | And on Sunday , the Oxfordshire under 18 's hockey team are hoping to crown their season by winning the Southern Counties Championship . |
| 28 | Ipswich did their homework by following the example of East Anglian neighbours Norwich , who came to Villa Park on Saturday and smothered the Villa pair into submission by employing a sweeper . |
| 29 | If there is continuing disquiet about the way an industry is being run , Members can express their disquiet by questioning the fitness of the persons appointed by the Government to run it . |
| 30 | Marketing is by its nature an expansionist , aggressive activity and those concerned with it are constantly seeking to improve their performance by increasing the scale and selectivity of their approaches . |