Example sentences of "in [adv] do [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might sometimes be able to migrate to new areas , but in so doing they would merely threaten the existence of the original inhabitants . |
| 2 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 3 | He kept in check the political and economic expectations of his people , but in so doing he may well have placed a burden on his young and untried successor , the fourteen-year-old Makhostive , his son by Ntombi Latfwala , who was queen regent of Swaziland from 1983 until the prince was crowned in April 1986 . |
| 4 | In crisis situations , the initiative inevitably rests with the executive — it is the president who authorizes immediate military responses and in so doing he may not be as carefully respectful of the Constitution as some purists would like . |
| 5 | In so doing he could still ensure loyalty to the Merovingian dynasty , even if not to the individual king . |
| 6 | And in so doing it can often convey that a past is not a thing to be discovered . |