Example sentences of "[prep] do [adv] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past China had been plundered by westerners eager to exploit large markets and in doing so they brought the nation to its knees . |
| 2 | This results in the open field lines convecting polewards under the magnetic ‘ tension ’ force , and in doing so they accelerate the magnetosheath ions that flow along them and cross the magnetopause . |
| 3 | In doing so it saves the dieter from the common curse of constipation , mainly caused by lack of bulk in normal slimming diets . |
| 4 | Interestingly , although neoclassicism allowed individual differences to influence punishments on the grounds of justice , in doing so it paved the way for the later , positivist conception of the causes and treatment of crime . |
| 5 | It shifts interaction between pupils away from casual social conversation in the direction of discussion about the task in hand , and in doing so it reduces the amount of time spent by the teacher on matters of routine . |
| 6 | In doing so it checks the following : |
| 7 | In doing so it used the temporary 1951–3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement . |
| 8 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 9 | Bakewell bred not only for meat but for as much tallow as possible and in doing so he improved the Longhorn but at the same time destroyed its future prospects . |
| 10 | In doing so he voiced the main concern of all the watchful parties : the risk that control through physical restraint may emerge as common practice over the use of counselling . |
| 11 | In doing so he reduced the influence of the Takeshita faction , hitherto the largest internal faction within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) . |
| 12 | In doing so he exposes the pre-acquisition write-down , the timing of recognition of deferred consideration and the impact of disposals . |
| 13 | In doing so he lost the only friends he had here in Paris , such as they were . |
| 14 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 15 | In doing so he reveals the most frequently denied value of humour a defence against the world 's cruel pressures . |
| 16 | The resulting contract was contingent upon the society 's decision to proceed with obtaining a valuation , and by doing so they purified the contract . |
| 17 | By doing so they amended the three basic treaties which respectively created the European Coal and Steel Community ( which came into existence in 1951 ) , the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Economic Community ( Euratom and EEC — both of which came into operation in 1958 ) . |