Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In so doing they extended the problem of determining the relationship between rhetoric and reality into the early barbarian period . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By so doing they colluded in the evils that they would have wished to remedy had they faced them fair and square . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By so doing they have sought to protect domestic employment , the balance of payments and so forth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In so doing they do not usurp the legislative function . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In so doing they legitimated and endorsed the status quo , and fulfilled an ideological function of agent of disguised social control . |
| 14 | The judges then must decide how to interpret the statute and by so doing they define its meaning . |
| 15 | It was painful enough knowing they had both let their love for each other slip so easily away , but the speed with which he 'd filled the void she 'd left really cut into her . |
| 16 | Many of the latecomers , especially as the afternoon wore on , were furious to find the doors locked , not having heard of the noon closure and so thinking they had all day . |
| 17 | As it was no longer raining they had not taken shelter in any of the caves , but after a time the thin man out of sheer restlessness looked into the nearest and came out carrying a sack . |
| 18 | There have been improvements here and there in the East European countries , but generally speaking they distribute sulphur dioxide to their own fields and cities and to the countries downwind of them as liberally as they ever did . |
| 19 | There are a number of different options , and each of these can probably be brought into play together , but broadly speaking they fall under two headings . |
| 20 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 21 | If it was you who answered the telephone , they hung up but when you were away riding they spoke to me . |
| 22 | Yeah , but , but I 'm just saying they reckon on this , its like , they had a little chart , its either fair , good or excellent and like all the others there was like vision and wear and stuff and the vision of that erm , durability and vision capabilities were excellent on the , on the erm |
| 23 | By thus consenting they form one body politic and it is implied in the contract that the majority have the right to conclude for the rest and let me quote for when any number of men have by the consent of every individual made a community they have thereby made that community one body with a power to act as one body which is only by the will and determination of the majority it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way a single body ca n't move in two opposite directions simultaneously . |
| 24 | TALKING YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS Good negotiating means that everyone comes away feeling they have won . |
| 25 | Looking equipped for a spot of gentle camping in the Dordogne but definitely not for dicing with dunes and wadis of the harsh landscape that lay ahead , they scorched on regardless , not for once wishing they had the half-track trucks or ‘ autochenilles that carried their predecessors . |
| 26 | Americans fly in , have a shilling camel ride and go home saying they 've done the Sahara . ’ |
| 27 | Surely it helped with the welcomes they received all down the river with locals for ever insisting they come in for meals , to stay , to be guests of honour in parties for the whole town , to be driven round and shown the sights and to have their strange English accents listened to . |
| 28 | Always assuming they match together . |
| 29 | The jokers in the pack , Swansea 's Pooh Sticks are always claiming they record in exotic places for some reason best known to themselves . |
| 30 | Strictly speaking they do not . |