Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] so [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women who come to refuges do so because marriage is unbearable and they have no resources to give them anywhere else to run to . |
| 2 | The majority of lone parents become so as the result of separation , divorce or death . |
| 3 | Most of the dogs that come up for rehoming do so because of a change in domestic circumstances rather than through any temperament problems . |
| 4 | ‘ Because sometimes girls who get crushes on singers do so because they pose no physical threat … ’ |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 6 | Bethany Megan Robinson says residents of Hammond Drive who object to the closure of Loraine Crescent do so because it stops them taking a short cut . |
| 7 | This is concerned with aesthetic aspects and it is not sufficient that the article simply looks pretty or pleasing but the eye-appeal of the article should be such that persons acquiring or using the article do so because of the appearance of articles made to the design . |
| 8 | People who go to prison for non-payment of the community charge do so because they choose to lose their liberty rather than pay the amount that is rightfully theirs to pay . |
| 9 | It is argued that within the private sector the method by which the firm ensures that individuals behave so as to maximize profits is to pay workers the value of marginal product . |
| 10 | To say that a particular department ( or programme ) provides value for money means that those who strive to provide the service do so as best they can , given the resources that are available and the environment within which they operate . |
| 11 | Ten to fifteen per cent of all the birds in Australia do so as well . |
| 12 | It is possible , and indeed likely , that many of them voted for the party despite some of its specific plans and intentions , and opinion polls sometimes indicate that a majority of those who support a party or government do so while opposing one or more of its particular policies . |
| 13 | Therefore , the emphasis of the present discussion is not upon whether the individuals benefit psychologically from being members of the Young Conservatives : it can be assumed that those who remain members do so because they enjoy being so . |
| 14 | Most people who arrange to work flexible hours do so because they want to spend time with their families , as well as pursue a career . |
| 15 | Those who are studying on a part-time basis as members of a regional course do so as non-residential students , with regular residential weekends and summer schools . |
| 16 | Leading health groups do so as well : |
| 17 | It seems that most who enter care do so because there appears to be little alternative because they require high levels of care . |
| 18 | Some Catholic schools in the area have no contact with the RUC 's Community Relations Branch , others do so when the police are in plain clothes and bring no uniformed neighbourhood police with them , while yet others restrict the lecture topics which the community relations police cam address . |
| 19 | Lawrence then supposes that bristles grow so as to point down the concentration gradient . |
| 20 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |