Example sentences of "but [prep] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regulatory control , however , is concerned for the most part with organizational deviance , and with many activities in which compliance does not reside simply in refraining from an act , but in positively doing something to remedy a state of affairs . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Farrell uses the fact that O'Neill joined the Apprentice Boys of Derry and the Royal Black Preceptory ( two Protestant fraternal organizations similar to the Orange Order ) to portray him as a ‘ closet ’ die-hard unionist but in so doing misses the glaring point that O'Neill had to join these organizations because he was not already a member . |
| 4 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 5 | Robert Naish was surely surprised at the apparent ease with which he not only achieved support but in so doing effectively acquired the Committee 's crucial agreement to buy out the bondholders ! |
| 6 | Drafting in Steve Albini was a classic case of Marshall supporting the group , but in so doing , indirectly penalising RCA . |
| 7 | It can be seen that in terms of the formal equations it is possible to make some juncture , but in so doing it is also possible to lose sight of the quite different perspectives from which they derive . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | It will surprise nobody that I should like to redistribute the All England Club 's money for them but in so doing , give them more direct control over how it is used . |
| 10 | By its success in limiting the scope of the Council of Europe , Britain effectively destroyed it as a potentially powerful engine of integration , but in so doing lost whatever control of the situation it had had . |
| 11 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 12 | Our analysis , in a way more direct , specifies necessary connections , but in so doing does provide an account of the nature of laws . |
| 13 | The Arnoldian tradition relates art firmly to being in all its existential , moral and aesthetic modalities , but in so doing perhaps diminishes our awareness of the unique properties of the arts as arts ; conversely , while the continental schools in various ways direct our attention to the formal or technical properties of the arts ( even when contesting them ) , they perhaps risk losing the human frame of reference . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They might sometimes be able to migrate to new areas , but in so doing they would merely threaten the existence of the original inhabitants . |
| 16 | He kept in check the political and economic expectations of his people , but in so doing he may well have placed a burden on his young and untried successor , the fourteen-year-old Makhostive , his son by Ntombi Latfwala , who was queen regent of Swaziland from 1983 until the prince was crowned in April 1986 . |
| 17 | It 's where the mover chooses to exercise that particular right , but in so doing the mover can not , or should not introduce new material and make another speech . |
| 18 | ‘ You may not realize it , young man , ’ said Barrie , witheringly , ‘ but in so doing I was breaking the law . |
| 19 | But in so doing the Prime Minister overlooked two crucial aspects of what was decided at that summit . |
| 20 | She did her best to draw him out of his depression but in so doing roused Belinda 's jealousy , as she , in turn , also indulged in a fit of sulks . |
| 21 | It it 's there for us to , to use as a , as a sore thumb exercise to ask questions but , but to actually do anything er , er as critical as saying , we 're gon na spend twelve thousand pounds next period and eleven thousand pound the period after and fourteen thousand the period after , er I do n't think that 's |
| 22 | If you do not feel you want to do this it is a great pity but at least do not avoid having your photograph taken as part of the normal course of events ( at weddings , parties , social events ) . |
| 23 | The older villagers mainly watched , but by so doing at least attached themselves to and reinforced the validity of the actions of the young . |