Example sentences of "[prep] so [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The philosophy maintains that it is up to you to take initiatives and through so doing to refuse to be bored . |
| 2 | So they choose to contend that it has not really happened : and in so choosing raise a timely question about the nature of political belief . |
| 3 | His passionate ambition was to lead a crusade against the Turks , and in so doing to unite Christendom — a vision which anticipated that of Charles V , and a policy which was to be a major preoccupation of both Charles and Philip II throughout the sixteenth century . |
| 4 | The bulk of moisture should be underneath , which is why you filled the planting hold beforehand , so that root action is encouraged to work down to seek it and in so doing become established . |
| 5 | Our analysis , in a way more direct , specifies necessary connections , but in so doing does provide an account of the nature of laws . |
| 6 | According to the Court of Appeal in Tagro v Cafane this requires the valuer to assume that he can sell it on the open market to a willing buyer , and in so doing to ignore any covenant against assignment which restricts alienation of the landlord 's interest . |
| 7 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
| 8 | The Department had underestimated their speaker , and in so doing had made an embarrassing mistake . |
| 9 | Perhaps the woman had already met Jesus previously , had changed her immoral life , in so doing had realised that her sins had been forgiven and was now showing gratitude for this . |
| 10 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 11 | Hollywood had streamlined its own product and in so doing had alienated the intellectuals . |
| 12 | In fact , by 1988 General Electric had reorganized into fewer key businesses in order to overcome this problem , and in so doing had become more like a conglomerate . |
| 13 | The truth is , judging from the current record of the EEC , that countries which wish to expand its powers against those of their own parliaments , are likely in so doing to extend bureaucracy , regulation and uncompetitiveness . |
| 14 | It is for the courts to construe those words and it is the court 's duty in so doing to give effect to the intention of Parliament in using those words . |
| 15 | The persons being processed into the speaker 's frame of reference may in so doing lose contact with their own , so that they can not relate their new knowledge to their life situation ; neither can they communicate it to others . |
| 16 | Do we aid the overstretched budget — deny the children books and equipment in order to engage outsiders to do it and in so doing lose the rapport so carefully built with our staff ? |
| 17 | The two texts simply address different readerships and in so doing reflect different textual preferences . |
| 18 | The significance is that , together , the two operated to remove an essential feature from the full description of Co-operation ; and in so doing to deny to the movement that function which it was uniquely able to discharge and which was , therefore , most likely to guarantee its growth and survival in perpetuity . |
| 19 | It is fair to say that this view is controversial : certainly Grinsell remains strictly factual , but the Bords support this explanation and in so doing follow in the footsteps of John Michell , Tony Wedd , and earlier writers of the 1930s . |
| 20 | I move Lord Mayor and in so doing to say that the controlling group can accept the amendment proposed by the Conservative Group on standing order C six A. |
| 21 | Very often they just need the opportunity to meet other people in a similar situation , and in so doing learn to form new relationships again , but in a safe and caring atmosphere . |
| 22 | If that is a benefit short of trust status , why is it necessary to force through trust status while encouraging local hospital management and in so doing to bring the assets , the buildings and the personnel out of local health service management ? |
| 23 | The duty of the court is to enforce the Acts and in so doing to observe one principle which is inherent in the Acts and has been long recognised , the principle that parties can not contract out of the Acts … |
| 24 | Reparation is the notion that people who have offended should do something to ‘ repair ’ the wrong they have done , and in so doing acknowledge the wrongness of their actions . |
| 25 | In giving consent to another 's actions , however , our primary purpose is to authorise those actions and in so doing create for or accord to another a special right to act : the obligation generated on the consentor not to interfere with the exercise of this right takes , in this case , the secondary role . |
| 26 | Prima facie their intention was to immobilise the ship and in so doing to interfere with the performance by the owners of their contract or contracts of carriage . ’ |
| 27 | The ‘ racial ’ criminal subcultures of each group are seen to wantonly violate the laws and customs which express the civilization of the national community and in so doing provide powerful symbols which express black difference as a whole . |
| 28 | The role of the MAS specialist is to support that team in the acquisition or divestment process and in so doing to add value to the service provided . |
| 29 | But if that movement were to succeed and in so doing carry him to power , he promised a systematic cruelty or slaughter as precise , impersonal and ineluctable as a quadratic equation . |
| 30 | Although the energy problem can be surmounted at a price , it seems certain that the imbalance between infrastructure and population will aggravate economic problems and in so doing worsen nationality problems as well . |