Example sentences of "so do [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so doing they extended the problem of determining the relationship between rhetoric and reality into the early barbarian period . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By so doing they colluded in the evils that they would have wished to remedy had they faced them fair and square . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | In so doing they legitimated and endorsed the status quo , and fulfilled an ideological function of agent of disguised social control . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I then burrowed into the cockpit to wrench the gear from its housing but in so doing I became unplugged and did not hear the pilot shouting that we were about to ditch . ’ |
| 12 | And finally , Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus , and in so doing he sealed his own doom . |
| 13 | In so doing he emphasised the need for accountability at all levels of the system . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 16 | In so doing he combined the religious culture of Lérins and the rhetorical culture of Late Antiquity more successfully than had Sidonius . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | In so doing he founded modern British orthopaedics . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In so doing he triggered a theological storm that led to his resignation . |
| 21 | Firstly , he used a telescope to observe the heavens , and in so doing he transformed the observational data that the Copernican theory was required to explain . |
| 22 | In so doing he found another character , John Higgs , who became central to his development . |
| 23 | By so doing he originated a style of dance which owed its liveliness to the way such people behaved and danced in real life . |
| 24 | By so doing he changed the very character of the conflict , for through the creation of a wider involvement in its success he tried to ensure that he , and his successors , would have broad support for the continued involvement of England and Englishmen in France . |
| 25 | By so doing he gave us priceless clues for a richer , more colourful , and sometimes more dramatic , range of expression than the score could suggest without the eloquence of the two signs . |
| 26 | In so doing she demonstrated the vital role of the family in early-modern towns . |