Example sentences of "support themselves by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 2 | A house was to be provided to receive those incapable of supporting themselves by reason of age , infirmity or disease ; to provide work for those who were capable of it ; to correct and punish the idle and profligate ; and to educate the infant poor in habits of industry and religion . |
| 3 | At many shows they actually supported themselves by playing a brief set of their usual material . |
| 4 | Even in northern England the urban unemployed could easily turn to work on nearby farms in the summer : the striking weavers of Padiham ( Lancashire ) in 1859 supported themselves by hay-making . |
| 5 | Mothers on out-door relief were to be encouraged or forced by the threat of withdrawal of relief to send some or all of their children into the workhouse , so that the mothers could support themselves by work . |
| 6 | Although some could do this through using their savings or drawing on insurances , many could not , with women much less likely than men to be able to support themselves by these means ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | This led Asquith to fix a pensionable age of seventy , despite the mass of evidence that must people who survived to old age ceased to be able to support themselves by work in their mid-sixties — sixty-five was the age adopted by most occupational and charitable pension schemes . |