Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The promoters of the Club would like to see more of the local tradesmen take up bonds , feeling convinced that in doing so they would confer indirect benefit upon themselves . ’ |
| 2 | We believe that in a fair , competitive economy , men and women will be able to develop to the full , and that in doing so they will create greater prosperity for all . |
| 3 | Ethnomethodology has developed various ways of demonstrating these unwritten rules of social life , and of showing how they are continuously achieved by social actors . |
| 4 | The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They will intervene to try to secure a settlement of the claim without its being determined by an industrial tribunal , and in doing so they are required to seek to promote the reinstatement or re-engagement of the employee . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that both education and health services improve the quality of labour and in doing so they assist economic growth . |
| 10 | If the British system of policing is a social construction geared to the maintenance of élitist power and is primarily concerned to keep control over a materially disadvantaged underclass , then these same ‘ dangerous classes ’ seem to have willingly entered into this game of power-relations with their masters ; and by doing so they have deflected attention away from their own lack of privilege and power . |
| 11 | Megaw LJ said that each of the parties desired to avoid the possibility that the other might challenge the opinion of the valuer because the parties had stipulated that the auditors should act as experts , and by doing so they had showed that they wanted a measure of certainty , accepting the risk , which applied either way , that the expert might err . |
| 12 | The resulting contract was contingent upon the society 's decision to proceed with obtaining a valuation , and by doing so they purified the contract . |
| 13 | But in doing so they must not restrict the opportunities for one gender or racial group . |
| 14 | Our usual accounts of excitatory conditioning refer to associations between events referred to as CS and US , but in doing so they are guilty of over-simplification . |
| 15 | Such bombs often smash into other bigger , stationary boulders at the base of the cone , shattering into smithereens , but in doing so they leave their own mark on the boulder . |
| 16 | The men in power see this as a menace and attempt to make their position more secure by fighting ; but in doing so they are forced to yield ground because of the losses they incur in decreased production . |
| 17 | The reason they do this is in order to link general criticisms of the capitalist economic system with a specific analysis of the poverty of the elderly , but in doing so they shift their point of reference . |
| 18 | But in doing so they raise further problems of their own . |
| 19 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , they were soon moved to different duties , but before doing so they were able to train a third person , a Sergeant , who has since carried on the work . |
| 21 | Growers in the South and East are keen to recycle the surplus irrigation water that runs off fruit , vegetable and nursery plants in glasshouses , but by doing so they risk re-cycling expensive diseases which could wipe out their crops . |
| 22 | Willis ' account , relying upon Marxist interpretation of the data , portrayed the lads as expressing a kind of rebellion , for in doing so they had developed an awareness of their class position . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't have many polyps in Egypt , do you ? ’ said the doctor , and the man from Cairo said , ‘ Not in the colon , ’ though without adding where they did have them . |
| 24 | This too he dragged and tugged out of his pocket , and they both stared at it as though by doing so they could turn it into something else . |