Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] so [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as Honoré Bouvet wrote , the soldier who acted qua soldier did so as the king 's deputy , all the more so did war 's new leaders act in his name . |
| 2 | Lynn McCool from Strabane did so when she and her partner Eileen Rose Power turned five up on Andrea Dunne and Julie Thomas and went on to win six and four . |
| 3 | are colour coordinated so as you can |
| 4 | If this is the case , the adjustment is best made with the strings slackened so as to reduce the possibility of damaging the knife edges on the bridgeplate . |
| 5 | Immature females interacted with adult females primarily when the latter were lactating ; immature males did so when they were in oestrus . |
| 6 | It will be suggested that those who became Jacobites because of a deep attachment to the principles of divine-right monarchy and Stuart legitimism were relatively few ; most who turned to Jacobitism did so because of disillusionment with developments after the Glorious Revolution . |
| 7 | It said 1,200 of the 1,700 employees that left during the quarter did so after voluntarily accepting severance packages , and it expects more departures as the job-cutting programme spreads to new countries . |
| 8 | Thus conditions not in themselves inhuman or degrading became so when they were combined with other bad conditions . |
| 9 | The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively . |
| 10 | Many of the minority who reluctantly chose to borrow money did so as preferable to having to spend forty days in Winson Green Gaol like Tom Broadbent , the Birmingham brass-dresser , who in 1899 was committed in default of a small debt to a coal merchant , and died there . |
| 11 | One problem with the evaluation of these results is the possibility that the women who described themselves as housewives did so because this was an interview about housework . |
| 12 | Evelyn did so while Rose picked and tugged at the hem until she found the ring . |
| 13 | Some friends who have lost their virginity did so because they did n't know what was going on . |
| 14 | According to the first , only a very small proportion ( 6 per cent ) of those entering unemployment from employment did so because a temporary job had come to an end ; according to the second rather more ( 16 per cent ) did . |
| 15 | The boys contributing to the uproar did so as well , and were rewarded for any unusually telling stroke of humour ( within the tradition-bound schoolboy framework ) by a smirk of appreciation . |
| 16 | It is not surprising then that the earliest women to enter politics did so as ‘ surrogate ’ males , to stand in for husbands or fathers ( see the case of Nancy , Lady Astor ) or that no ‘ monstrous regiment ’ of women was waiting to overwhelm men in the battle for parliamentary seats . |
| 17 | A complication from the government 's point of view was that the Sunday Times had contracted to publish extracts from the diaries and in fact did so before the government sought a gagging injunction . |