Example sentences of "[adv] do [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In so doing they extended the problem of determining the relationship between rhetoric and reality into the early barbarian period . |
| 32 | The results supported his view that in recall people make an ‘ effort after meaning ’ and in so doing they make characteristic changes to their recall . |
| 33 | In the light of our discussion in Chapter 2 , it could be argued that in so doing they failed to get to the root of the problem . |
| 34 | The argument runs that individuals should enjoy the liberty to pursue their own interests and preferences , provided that in so doing they avoid harm to the interests of others . |
| 35 | By so doing they colluded in the evils that they would have wished to remedy had they faced them fair and square . |
| 36 | In so doing they served notice that , although enthusiasm would ebb and flow through the following decades , a new and fundamental fact had entered the politics of the nation . |
| 37 | In so doing they begin the process of explaining a phenomenon , reducing it to intelligibility ; of course , that process entails a closing of options , a setting of limits to reality , since understanding is one of the ways in which we control and circumscribe our environment . |
| 38 | By so doing they have sought to protect domestic employment , the balance of payments and so forth . |
| 39 | The solution is to recruit managers who are more talented than themselves , but in so doing they risk losing decision-making power and may ultimately put their own positions in danger . |
| 40 | In so doing they do not usurp the legislative function . |
| 41 | The Jews had to accept the fact that Gentiles could become Christians and that in so doing they did not have to come to Christ via Jewish cultural conditioning . |
| 42 | In so doing they legitimated and endorsed the status quo , and fulfilled an ideological function of agent of disguised social control . |
| 43 | The judges then must decide how to interpret the statute and by so doing they define its meaning . |
| 44 | So we made these tests more complex in order to increase their relevance , but in so doing we produced tests which were so sophisticated as not to be widely available due to cost and personnel requirements , and which began to show some of the problems found when we measured performance ‘ on-site ’ . |
| 45 | In so doing we influence other people 's behaviour in the only way possible — via our own behaviour . |
| 46 | We discover how exotic peoples meet the universal basic human needs of food , shelter and sex in unexpected ways and with highly original and thought-provoking theories about the meaning of life and the nature of the human condition ; in so doing we begin to perceive the relativity and arbitrariness of our own basic postulates . |
| 47 | By so doing we start to produce accounts of what needs changing if the oppression of disabled people is to be overcome , we start to develop a disabled perspective which we can progressively apply to all aspects of society . |
| 48 | In so doing it rejects the classical vision of the company which defines the interests of the company as those of the shareholders , who are the only members of the company . |
| 49 | In so doing it multiplies many times over and produces alcohol . |
| 50 | In so doing it breaches any totality , including History : |
| 51 | In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content . |
| 52 | In so doing it reversed an earlier commitment , made in 1988 in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster [ see pp. 36161 ; 34831 ] , to begin the shut-down of the country 's 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 53 | It enhances a pub 's ability to cater for the different and sometimes conflicting activities and tastes of different customers under the same roof , and in so doing it keeps alive the healthy social and age mix that is a traditional hallmark of the true pub . |
| 54 | The category , in other words , functioned both to include and exclude ; in so doing it tended not to engage with the variety of British racisms . |
| 55 | In so doing it aims to uncover and examine the limited range of techniques used to close a topic . |
| 56 | In so doing it suggested a small but distinct improvement on that model : the party-list vote should be the first on the ballot paper , not the second as it is in West Germany , and the constituency vote should come second instead of first . |
| 57 | As some of you will know by this time , the Centre provides custom-build courses , day schools , residential schools and other projects , for thousands of adult students in this region — mainly at locations scattered throughout the area , towns and villages of Sussex , but some here on the campus — and by so doing it tries to provide a strong functional link that helps to keep the university in touch with the community . |
| 58 | Subtitled ‘ A short history of Everton , its Mother Church , and one of its mid-Victorian Churchwardens , including notes on how to start tracing a Family Tree ’ , it highlights the fortunes of the Mould family and by so doing it provides insights into the character of a place that was overwhelmed by its powerful neighbour 's rapid expansion . |
| 59 | misrepresenting the situation , and by so doing you scare people unnecessarily and you actually make the situation worse . |
| 60 | And you 're so anxious to justify yourself , that you answer the question , and then you go on to tell me all the background behind it , and in so doing you give me a lovely piece of information which I did n't actually have when you walked into the room . |