Example sentences of "and so [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the particular genius of British politics that the major parties have always managed to hold on to their respective extremists and so to draw their teeth . |
| 2 | The fair is to be kept ‘ … upon the fourth day of July , being St Martin 's Day , and so to continue for the space of seven days … ’ , but the date changed to the 15th July when the Gregorian Calendar was adopted . |
| 3 | Or magically to copy the essence of their being and so to own them within himself ? |
| 4 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 5 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 6 | Other states now plan , despite federal disapproval , to introduce SW transmission and so to broadcast longer distances . |
| 7 | When a star runs out of fuel , it starts to cool off and so to contract . |
| 8 | I was nearly frantic , and ran about the house naked , endeavouring by every means to excite sensations in different parts of my body , and so to weaken the enemy by creating division . |
| 9 | ‘ To attempt , in some intuition of evil , to understand them , to enact them , and so to activate and reveal the evil in one 's own soul . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was throughout his life a long conflict between what may one may call a sort of scientific naturalism in his attitude to the world , and the impulse to hypostatize his ideals , to create out of his ideals erm ideal beings of some kind , and so to worship . |
| 12 | And so to point ( a ) . |
| 13 | It aims to complement work on the south by this researcher , and so to outline aspects of the growing difference after about 1770 between the high-wage industrial north and the poorly-paid ‘ de-industrialising ’ south . |
| 14 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 15 | And so to take examples among longer poems a new kind of satire , Dryden 's Absalom and Achitophel , is in fact a mock-epic , attacking and yet leaning for support upon Milton 's Paradise Lost ; even the extremely violent novelty of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land reminds us of a Renaissance or Arthurian version of its text , which is rarely present on the surface but against which the poem reverberates and resounds most deeply . |
| 16 | Skilled teachers of drama give pupils the tools of the trade , encouraging them to become more autonomous in their handling of the dramatic medium and so to take greater responsibility for their own learning . |
| 17 | The de facto right to take wild deer would become to right to participate in an LDMT , and so to take wild deer . |
| 18 | And so to take what we would describe as a reasonable view on this , we say that if you know from evidence there are a number of concealed households , you should seek to accommodate them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Normal co-ordinate analysis aims to provide a quantitative analysis of such mixing of local or group modes , and so to improve our understanding of the vibrational motions of a molecule . |
| 22 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |
| 23 | What distinguishes visionary leadership is that through words and actions , the leader gets the followers to ‘ see ’ his or her vision — to see a new way to think and act — and so to join their leader in realizing it . |
| 24 | Exploratory tools allow learners to investigate views of a given domain which are different from theirs and so to examine consequences and conflicts . |
| 25 | And so to stifle it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The child who 's been burned learns to fear fire and so to treat it with respect . |
| 28 | Both treatments would enable patients to be awake and so to receive light at their earlier ‘ critical period ’ . |
| 29 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |
| 30 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |