Example sentences of "in [adv] do [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In so doing they extended the problem of determining the relationship between rhetoric and reality into the early barbarian period . |
| 6 | In so doing they join that list of people who have been called upon over and over again to sit on public committees and advisory bodies . |
| 7 | In so doing they legitimated and endorsed the status quo , and fulfilled an ideological function of agent of disguised social control . |
| 8 | In so doing they do not usurp the legislative function . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In so doing we influence other people 's behaviour in the only way possible — via our own behaviour . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In so doing she destroys the principle of control that kept her novels within the bounds of the generic traditions of British fiction . |
| 17 | In so doing she demonstrated the vital role of the family in early-modern towns . |
| 18 | In so doing she demonstrates that the potential scope of the novel is enriched , not exhausted , by technological development , and that , conceived as an ‘ open ’ and heterogeneous genre , the novel still has a significant role to play in contemporary society , both as a mode of knowledge and as a means of communication . |
| 19 | What would be the point of his striving for good repute in the House if in so doing he had to risk losing his seat ? |
| 20 | In so doing he became a symbol of the age , and his poetry became its echoing music — with its brooding grandeur as well as its bleakness , its plangency as well as its ellipses , its rhythmical strength as well as its theatrical equivocations . |
| 21 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 22 | In so doing he creates a problem that has not yet been solved . |
| 23 | In so doing he combined the religious culture of Lérins and the rhetorical culture of Late Antiquity more successfully than had Sidonius . |
| 24 | And finally , Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus , and in so doing he sealed his own doom . |
| 25 | In so doing he emphasised the need for accountability at all levels of the system . |
| 26 | In so doing he founded modern British orthopaedics . |
| 27 | In so doing he permitted Isis to reveal the name to her son Horus but ordered that it must not be told to anyone else . |
| 28 | In so doing he found another character , John Higgs , who became central to his development . |
| 29 | In so doing he triggered a theological storm that led to his resignation . |
| 30 | In so doing he has provided a book which has been a tremendous help to pastors in every generation since , up to and including the present day . |