Example sentences of "by [verb] their [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there was no established pattern of dancing attached to ‘ trad ’ they let off steam by inventing their own steps , often with wild abandon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This proposal predictably caused considerable opposition , especially among the local authorities who countered by publishing their own proposals in a document issued by the Council of Local Education Authorities ( CLEA ) on 15 July 1981 , entitled , The Future of Higher Education in the Maintained Sector : A Consultative Paper . |
| 5 | An integral answerphone will be included , as will Smart Card technology to enable users to share a phone by inserting their own cards . |
| 6 | Poxviruses overcome this problem by encoding their own enzymes for transcription and RNA modification . |
| 7 | The irrigation waters made possible by flooding their own homes might eventually help the people in their new . |
| 8 | By supporting their own candidates , they were challenging Baldwin 's authority and leadership even though he had been given a vote of confidence by the Party in 1931 . |
| 9 | By commissioning their own growers , in Reading or further afield , setting rigid standards , and testing their products , Suttons tried to sell no seed but that of ‘ highest purity and of full germination ’ . |
| 10 | Speaking in Brussels on Sept. 9 at a meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers , Baker called on the USA 's allies to contribute more to " responsibility-sharing " , not only by helping to transport troops by air and sea , but by committing their own forces . |
| 11 | Non-scientific discourses , like law and literary studies , address subjectivity by deploying their own concepts of the subject . |
| 12 | Here it is much more feasible for feminists to try and intervene more formally by criticizing existing sources , and by creating their own alternatives . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In other words , his strategy was to gain leverage over his powerful patrons by manipulating their own publics against them . |
| 17 | On royal orders , the towns were directed to see to their defences , and they had to do so by finding their own sources of finance through local effort . |
| 18 | They express their anger by destroying their own lives and thereby hurting others , while seeming to be wide-eyed and innocent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |