Example sentences of "by [verb] their [det] " 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 | Pupils could convey messages to each other by inventing their own sign language . |
| 3 | The company says the deal gives it the opportunity to distribute financial information to clients ' branch offices by using their own hardware and networks . |
| 4 | Hence , someone wishing to finance a catering enterprise may have to guarantee the loan by using their own personal assets , e.g. their house , as security . |
| 5 | SEYMOUR PAPERT believes that children learn by building their own intellectual structures which they then apply to reality . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From 1968 , the PLO sent raiding parties into Israel from southern Lebanon and the Israelis responded by launching their own revenge raids , often against Lebanese villages . |
| 8 | Media students have made broadcast history by launching their own local radio station . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But Brook supporters have decided to hit back by staging their own demonstration to support the centre 's work . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Individuals such as Charles Kettering , former Director of R & D for General Motors , have taken it upon themselves to ‘ buck the system ’ by developing their own style for dealing with the organizational barriers to innovation . |
| 13 | An integral answerphone will be included , as will Smart Card technology to enable users to share a phone by inserting their own cards . |
| 14 | They should be encouraged to spell words for themselves , and to remember the correct spelling , eg by compiling their own list of words they have used . |
| 15 | Poxviruses overcome this problem by encoding their own enzymes for transcription and RNA modification . |
| 16 | The ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation , which will care for physically and mentally handicapped people in Atea , expect to find that by owning their own tractor they will not only go a long way to becoming self-sufficient but will be able to hire out the tractor locally to enhance their income . |
| 17 | The irrigation waters made possible by flooding their own homes might eventually help the people in their new . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Swindon celebrated promotion to the Premier League today by breaking their own club record transfer fee . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We do accuse the Liberal Democrats of jumping on the bandwagon at a late stage , but in this they are running true to form and they are confusing the issue by doing their own irrelevant thing . |
| 23 | Finally , they could contribute to the farm income by running their own tourist enterprise . |
| 24 | They 'd answer the outside world by giving their own authorised version of the intervening years . |
| 25 | The judge said he believed the parties intended the reference to be a valuation , because of the appointment as the " arbitrators " of a seedsman and a market gardener , both being , in his view , eminently suitable persons to assess the compensation by exercising their own skill and knowledge without any evidence or witnesses being called before them . |
| 26 | Non-scientific discourses , like law and literary studies , address subjectivity by deploying their own concepts of the subject . |
| 27 | Students feel they will gain through the poor performance of others and suffer by imparting their own knowledge to fellow students . |
| 28 | Here it is much more feasible for feminists to try and intervene more formally by criticizing existing sources , and by creating their own alternatives . |
| 29 | diverting attention from his hopelessness , while helping the group to support him vis-a-vis the child to be helped — not by recounting their own success stories but by recognising what support potential he might already have , buried as it was but ready to be drawn out by support from others . |
| 30 | 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 . |