Example sentences of "so [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success will depend very largely on the dancer 's own sense of timing and ability so to perform the gestures created that they convey meaning which makes sense within the context of the ballet . |
| 2 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |
| 3 | So to combat the problem Kew Bridge Steam Museum has devised a series of children 's trails which will be available free to children visiting during August . |
| 4 | The main problem of the present-day settlor is so to draft the limitations of the settlement as to attract the least amount of income tax and inheritance tax . |
| 5 | In short , therefore , the best advice for combating jet-lag is to adopt a new routine in accord with your new time zone , to strengthen all possible time-cues , and so to reset the body clock as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | During the hunts , females are left on their own lot , and so to enable the whole group to re-form after the hunt , the two sexes have to co-ordinate their separate movements , staying within calling distance of each other . |
| 7 | I ask it to do so to enable the Bill to be revived in the form — |
| 8 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 9 | When Alan Cairns and other leading ministers opposed the candidacy of William McCrea and James McClelland they did so to preserve the interests of the Free Church and not to aid the DUP by reducing the public presence of Free Presbyterianism in the lists of candidates . |
| 10 | Those who seek to follow Jesus Christ , and in doing so to know the power and purpose of God in their lives , are called to a life of transformation . |
| 11 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 12 | 3 ) for the elastic moduli involved and so to obtain the time-dependent behaviour of the composite . |
| 13 | The food plant for both the small tortoiseshell and the peacock is the stinging nettle , so to stand the best chance of finding their caterpillars , start inspecting large clumps of nettles about the middle of May . |
| 14 | So to catch the song those wonderful liquid notes and trills and ‘ jug-jug-jugs ’ — before the few brief weeks are over , is an experience that never fails to thrill . |
| 15 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 16 | On the particular facts of the case , service on a wholly owned , closely controlled subsidiary was reasonably calculated to secure timely notice to the parent company , and so to meet the United States version of due process . |
| 17 | So to find the fun Alan took up racing and six championship wins later he 's still going full spedd ahead … |
| 18 | Right , so to find the average speed what you gon na do ? |
| 19 | These so-called ‘ Less Stress Workshops ’ are designed to allow students who choose to do so to explore the coping strategies that they use to deal with the emotional issues that arise in school . |
| 20 | It is to some extent modelled on the supposed ‘ Obrecht ’ Passion , which he mentions in his preface , though his text is entirely from St. John and he goes on to point out that he has been ‘ diligent so to set the words under the notes that almost every syllable has its note , and the four voices sing the words at the same time so that the listeners may hear the words clearly ’ . |
| 21 | So to sort the thing out : Stavrogin has designs on the child ; he kisses her hand , puts her on his knee , whispers to her . |
| 22 | There was nothing to suggest that that power to sue should be limited so as to exclude the proceedings before the court , save by the nature of the trade union itself , and that did not exclude a claim in respect of a libel ‘ calculated to arouse doubts and suspicions in the minds of members [ of the union itself ] , and so to destroy the cohesion and will to act of the union : ’ per Scott L.J . |
| 23 | The instep must travel two metres or so to reach the opponent 's head . |
| 24 | I can remember quite vividly the old tramcars running there er day and night , with the last service leaving the outskirts of Edinburgh around about er twelve er eleven thirty and you g have about ten minutes or so to reach the depots which there were many and varied at this particular time . |
| 25 | These were the deep furrows etched in the sand to help the Nairn transport , but I rather think more so to help the pilots of the period to find their way across the route from Rutbah Wells to Damascus , or indeed from Baghdad to Rutbah Wells . |
| 26 | 1064 so to escape the prima facie claim to immunity which this class of documents ordinarily attracts . |
| 27 | ‘ He said nothing I can do , so to let the police in . |
| 28 | There is no compulsive power in this amendment , nor will supporting legislation contain any obligation on those who do not wish to do so to use the mechanism it will set up . |
| 29 | When , however , need and dare are used non-assertively , it is possible for the speaker to feel that there is nothing real ( no real need or daring ) situated in time to constitute a before-position in relation to the event evoked by the infinitive , and so to use the bare infinitive after these verbs as with the modals . |
| 30 | Three operating theatres at the Princess Margaret Hospital have been closed after an equipment failure , so to ease the impact on waiting lists , the air force has offered to help . |