Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] so [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 I not only want to get married but I fully intend to do so as soon as possible , and to you , not to Dana .
2 Many workers in Britain have argued in favour of special family courts for divorcing families , and for divorce conciliation services , to help couples who wish to separate do so as amicably as possible ( see for example , Parkinson , 1982 ) .
3 His theory required him to specify a reason why the human branch of the evolutionary tree had advanced so much further than those which led to the living apes .
4 But no system can wholly protect fools from their own folly or from the knavery of others , and the advantages of trying to do so as fully as possible have to be weighed against the disadvantages of imposing fetters on business conducted honestly and efficiently .
5 It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains .
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