Example sentences of "do so [adv] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 2 | I 'll name no names at this stage , but will do so fearlessly if the exhibition continues much longer . |
| 3 | Britain remains the Dirty Man of Europe so far as SO&sub2 ; and NOx pollution is concerned , and will do so even when the EC Large Plant Directive is implemented by 2003 . |
| 4 | I hope that that will evolve in the fullness of time , but it will do so only when the electrification programme is extended to all parts of the country . |
| 5 | And sometimes they decide to do so just because the alternatives seem so appalling . |
| 6 | Building materials are currently running a small surplus , but imports far outstripped exports in the housing boom of the late 1980s and can be expected to do so again when the construction industry picks up . |
| 7 | They also extend the traditions of the area — the working over of old dumps by ‘ dressers ’ has taken place since ancient times and will , no doubt , continue to do so long after the mines close down . |
| 8 | But it looks like doing so only when the fishermen have emptied the seas . |
| 9 | Observers who have been taken by Paisley 's personal influence over his followers have often missed the point that those who supported Paisley only did so conditionally and the condition was that he continued to articulate traditional unionist positions . |
| 10 | It did so well that the King gave a charter to the ‘ gentlemen adventuring into Hudson 's Bay ’ which allowed them a monopoly of trade in the whole area of the rivers and streams running into the Bay . |
| 11 | They did so mostly because the transactions depended on the new debt burden being temporary while bits of a firm were sold , but the burden turned out to be lasting . |
| 12 | And the roofs that keep the snow for along time , do so either because the house is unoccupied or it 's pretty cold inside , or it 's got a well insulated loft . |
| 13 | We now give a variant of the method of 2.9.3 ; we do so partly because the variant can save computer time , especially if may iterations are required , but also because it enables us simply to bring out certain features of the method , which lead to possible modifications . |
| 14 | If they hand in an idea , by mail or in the suggestion box , they do so anonymously and the idea is a joke or an impertinence . |
| 15 | Thus oxygen and hydrogen do not combine at room temperatures , but do so explosively if the temperature is raised . |