Example sentences of "in do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing away with the ultra vires doctrine , Visby increased the certainty and abstraction of international bills of lading to the level of the Pomerene Act . |
| 2 | He maintained that the rule was an essential concomitant of the poll tax because it was a personal tax , yet we are told that in respect of the council tax , which is also , at least as to 50 per cent. , a personal tax , there is no difficulty in doing away with the 20 per cent . |
| 3 | By contrast Aleksandr Yakovlev , regarded as the most liberal politburo member , won an unexpectedly warm reception for an impassioned address in which he dwelt on the value of perestroika in doing away with the Stalinist legacy and restoring morale and morality and the dignity of both the party and the individual : he observed that " not only emptying shelves but also emptying souls brought about perestroika and demanded revolutionary changes " . |
| 4 | With bigger overheads , these have to charge economical fees and can often be undercut by the medium agencies in doing exactly the same programme of work . |
| 5 | What they omit to mention is that substantial progress is now being made in doing exactly this , the production of master inventories for selected groups . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure Adam will have no difficulty in doing exactly as he pleases , which at the moment happens to be attending to his guests . ’ |
| 7 | Glib statements about the use of prime movers and changing the reward system conceal the considerable difficulties often involved in doing just that . |
| 8 | It has become a commodity itself , to be bought and sold by people skilled only in doing just that , and they have taken the guts out of money , weeded it out . |
| 9 | ‘ There are many good bands in Africa ; they all want to come abroad but it is difficult to get visas and many promoters are only interested in doing just one tour . |
| 10 | He began to find his own satisfactions in doing well at school , in his friends , in his drawings . |
| 11 | A co-operative may have more difficulty in raising a large initial sum of venture capital and hence be at a greater risk of starting with too big a burden of interest on loan capital ; but , having got started on a sound financial footing , it would be under no special difficulty in doing as well as ordinary firms . |
| 12 | In doing so we felt that casual passers-by , looking in the window at the menu , would be more likely to come in knowing what price they would have to pay . |
| 13 | In spite of her own feminism and socialism her films are not propagandist or didactic , as she was very well aware that : ‘ We were not engaged to indulge our own politics or socialism , however much we would have found satisfaction in doing so ’ . |
| 14 | Never having shown the same propensity as the French for violent revolution , the dispossessed have entered into a complex ritual of action within the processes of the criminal justice system , and in doing so have encouraged those tasked with their containment to consider them as being less than human and therefore needing further control and discipline . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was always careful not to think about him during their estrangements but now , with him so near in time , there was a permissible pleasure in doing so . |
| 17 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 18 | In Tallis 's reading , Saussure did not move from the sign , which comprised signifier + signified , to reference , because he was not interested in doing so , being concerned only with the internal aspects of a language-system . |
| 19 | When I insist on that priority , as I can tell you I most certainly will — with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so — then I 'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that . |
| 20 | In doing so , they underlined a fact which is likely to attract more and more attention as tankers continue to shift toxins from town to town , country to country : the waste chain is long . |
| 21 | In doing so , he achieved something of the economic uplift associated with a move to the West , with little of the attendant culture shock , a fact which Glasgow can take as a kick in the groin or a pat on the back . |
| 22 | ‘ I made one speech on the subject and I 've not referred to it since , and there seems no purpose in doing so . ’ |
| 23 | In doing so I am rather like the doctor by the patient 's bedside , who knows ; although of course he does not tell the patient — that the outcome of the disease will depend upon something in the constitution of that patient which he can not control nor further influence and which he can not even ascertain , except by the event . |
| 24 | In doing so I wanted not to reduce , say , Gide 's or Fanon 's defence of difference to the limiting historical conditions of its articulation — the first as merely a sexual tourist , the second as developing a homophobic theory of Negrophobia . |
| 25 | The verdict of one admiring authority on the government 's performance is that , ‘ In doing so , it has achieved the largest transfer of property since the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII , a transfer from the state to its citizens . ’ |
| 26 | Tom Mboya had supported these moves , not least perhaps because of his long-standing animosity towards Odinga , but in doing so sowed the seeds of his own downfall . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , the Senegalese system has dealt with the succession problem impressively , and sustained a multi-party tradition which allows a wide range of opinion to be expressed in public , and in doing so has avoided the most acute problems of localism . |
| 28 | Marx tries to get away from the idea of private property when discussing pre-capitalist social systems by using the phrase ‘ appropriation of nature ’ but in doing so he uses a word with the same root as ‘ property ’ . |
| 29 | In doing so it also increased the social and political consequences of racism ’ ( A. Sivanandan , ‘ Race , Class and the State ’ ) . |
| 30 | With your help we can achieve that goal in 1990 — and in doing so , we can save the lives of three and a half million children every year . |