Example sentences of "of do so " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 2 | The have had er a long grade of time since the complaint was put to the commission , to put a notification in if they wanted to protect their position , but still they could of done so on , on a precautionary basis , and without prejudice basis they have not done so , a longer standing commissioner had invited them to do so ten years ago , they could do so this week on without prejudice basis and that may erm lead to security in the future that they now seek |
| 3 | It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for |
| 4 | Had to satisfy that desire , he wrote , yet find a way of doing so that would not have that physical effect on me . |
| 5 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |
| 6 | And however silly it might sound to take so slight a fragment of the story , the possibility of doing so says perhaps as much about the richness of the opera as it does about the interests of the listener . |
| 7 | While London did not consult the Dominions much on financial matters ( though it made a public ploy of doing so ) it lacked the political will or administrative means to make the rigorous control of dollar imports practised in the UK effective in those countries . |
| 8 | The thought of doing so appalled us , but there are regulations . |
| 9 | But the strikers who have fought over so many months with so much courage and strength have achieved another kind of victory — they have exposed once and for all the myth of the TUC 's solidarity with exploited workers and in the process of doing so they have redefined the methods and outlook of industrial struggle . |
| 10 | In the course of doing so he could change the face of Britain . |
| 11 | In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged . |
| 12 | All avenues were explored to see whether such a guarantee could be given by the Americans , but no way of doing so could be found without breaching the US Constitution . |
| 13 | Though some of the President 's advisers wished to use the crisis to drive Britain out of the nuclear deterrent business altogether , Kennedy had no intention of doing so , and insisted on a formula being found that would enable Britain to buy Polaris without jeopardizing the US policy of working towards a NATO Multilateral or Multinational nuclear force . |
| 14 | Dolphins have an impressive ability to imitate and learn , often apparently for the sheer pleasure of doing so . |
| 15 | The social benefits of maintaining the supply of clean air will exceed the private benefits of doing so . |
| 16 | At the very least it might have asked itself how it intended to make money selling American shares to Americans at a time when Wall Street 's native giants were incapable of doing so . |
| 17 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 18 | It has long been the case that the fact of winning is far more important than the manner of doing so , and since they have found a winning formula they have a powerful argument for keeping it , especially now that the financial rewards are considerable . |
| 19 | Improving life expectancy gave them every hope of doing so , especially if they belonged to the rising middle-class . |
| 20 | A senior executive at Jardine Matheson , Hong Kong Land 's parent , said : ‘ We have not talked to Olympia and we have no intention of doing so . ’ |
| 21 | There is a perfectly good way of doing so on television . |
| 22 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 23 | Having looked at some of the reasons why God is thought of in personal terms , it is as well to remind ourselves of some of the dangers of doing so . |
| 24 | We have entered an era when ever greater numbers of people wish to travel and have the means at their disposal of doing so . |
| 25 | These men who , with their fists , knocked others insensible , the art of doing so having been passed down as a necessary part of their growing up , had evidently never had to deal with a fainting female before ; and when the big , fat , enormous-breasted woman came into the kitchen , bawling , ‘ What the hell d' you think you 're at ! |
| 26 | But such is Rachael 's devotion to Stephen that when his wife , an alcoholic from whom he has parted company , appears at his lodgings , ill and incapable , Rachael looks after her to spare Blackpool the task of doing so . |
| 27 | If you are organising an event or thinking of doing so , we can help you . |
| 28 | Two whaling nations that had been among the largest , the United States and Britain , gave up whaling , and others have recently given up or are showing signs of doing so . |
| 29 | The parade was postponed again in the hope that the weather would improve ; unfortunately , it showed no sign of doing so . |
| 30 | Wolman ( 1986 ) argues that what informed Reagan 's urban policy was the misplaced notion of a national and urban dichotomy , economies engaged in a zero-sum game ; the federal government could assist the one but not the other , since the costs of doing so would detract from national economic recovery . |