Example sentences of "so [subord] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 2 | It may be painful , but a lot less so than failing miserably when your presentation ‘ goes live ’ . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : I had rather so than perfecting my Pamela in it . |
| 4 | But , when you do check , make certain that you have maintained straight and level flight just previously , and that you continue to do so if re-setting the DI . |
| 5 | But this could not be so if calling these things ‘ good ’ were just to reiterate that they promote the survival of the species . |
| 6 | I 'm not , I must admit I do n't think about it now , so if wearing it puts you off . |
| 7 | They can be territorial , so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places . |
| 8 | They can be territorial , so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places . |
| 9 | So if giving credit is more of a habit than a commercial necessity consider the following : |
| 10 | So if increasing the speed of a computer 's components is limited by the speed of light , how will one ever build increasingly faster computers ? |
| 11 | ‘ So while getting a document or computer disk from , say , London to Indonesia can take up to three days by post or courier , with electronic mail a valid print-out will be to hand in next to no time . |
| 12 | So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time . |
| 13 | And it does so while providing a perfect fit . |
| 14 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 15 | The wearing of breathing apparatus , although necessary , was known to be risky ; the trapped men were not accustomed to the equipment and anyone who has used it knows how alarming and claustrophobic the experience can be ; the effect can be a compelling desire to rip off the apparatus and if one of the trapped miners was to do so while passing through the gas in Bank mine , death would be almost instantaneous . |
| 16 | Machinery overcame this skill deficiency , and did so while bringing constantly falling costs . |
| 17 | It is possible , and indeed likely , that many of them voted for the party despite some of its specific plans and intentions , and opinion polls sometimes indicate that a majority of those who support a party or government do so while opposing one or more of its particular policies . |
| 18 | For example , Manning ( 1977 ) showed how policemen and women in the ranks have an ability to bypass or undermine innovations introduced by police managers , some even doing so while appearing to endorse the policy change ( Chatterton 1979 ) . |
| 19 | So while changing herself , the Family Development Nurse has to facilitate this change at community level in order that the expertise and knowledge of parents can be recognised and used in a wider context in the community and in equal partnership with the professional . |
| 20 | how you can persist in being so utterly incompetent bewilders me , and so while indulging in a little light entertainment in the ZZAP ! offices ( brutally torturing the staff for being human ) I decided it was time I found a solution to the problem . |
| 21 | So whilst supporting the theory that Smiths should not carry offensive ‘ literature ’ , I felt it was very important that the women 's movement should be proposing — and buying in large quantities — some ( or many ) alternatives to fill those top shelves . |
| 22 | Each board has slightly different turning characteristics so when trying a new board it takes a while to learn where to put the back foot . |
| 23 | So when choosing a card for tuck you should not be able to count more than four blanks vertically anywhere on the card . |
| 24 | So when referring to me in future , dear brother , remember that although I wear the cloth , Henry George Farrier is still underneath it . ’ |
| 25 | So when buying it is wise to take along a plan of the room with all the essential measurements marked on it.l Material quantities can then be calculated in the shop . |
| 26 | If you did n't do so when using the configuration file for the database creation , you should now update the header for the configuration file adding a new modification record with a development code , and scan both the configuration file and the package module until you get no errors . |
| 27 | So when counselling young people on this point we have to say that providing it is not contradictory to God 's will , ‘ be obedient ’ . |
| 28 | So when threshing time came round he bought a considerable amount of liquor which he concealed in strategic places . |
| 29 | So when taking down details of media enquiries do n't just record them : listen , be constructive and ask questions . |
| 30 | According to the National Readership Survey in 1987 nearly 40 per cent of adults claimed to ‘ skip ’ ads in normal TV viewing ‘ almost always ’ or ‘ quite often ’ , and 20 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ did so when watching a recorded video programme . |