Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone on board who was free to do so had attended the funeral , Ruth standing with the Carsons on the upper deck . |
| 2 | That he was prepared to do so to retain his position was , in itself , a sign of changing times . |
| 3 | ‘ But why should you be willing to let so gross an injury pass ? |
| 4 | The English do so love gardens ! |
| 5 | All elements which represent links or associations between one element and another do so using a common set of attributes , and are thus regarded as forming the attribute class pointer . |
| 6 | Species that reduce CO 2 with H 2 do so according to the following equation : |
| 7 | This had so infuriated Moustaine that he had decided to punish them , which meant the rest of us as well . |
| 8 | Why should Paul 's preaching have so provoked the Nazarean hierarchy that they sent their own emissaries in his wake to discredit him ? |
| 9 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 10 | In such a context no wonder that those preoccupied with the mentally ill feel so frustrated with the politics of fiscal restraint in all the industrial democracies . |
| 11 | ‘ Young people who were homeless or likely to become so have been helped , but … it is more difficult to help those sleeping rough , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The fact that John had handed over the reins of power to Miss Doris and Mr Smith seemed a great honour but his stipulation that they should keep and maintain the name and reputation of the business so long as it was possible to do so proved a massive task for them in later years . |
| 13 | Overall , the results suggest that even for this client group ( who are traditionally the most difficult to place ) small staffed homes can provide improved client experience as measured by engagement in meaningful activity ; but that to do so requires attention to the quality of staff performance as well as to basic material and social resources . |
| 14 | In terms of client activity patterns , the overall results suggest that even for people who , in addition to their severe or profound learning disability , have very serious challenging behaviour , small staffed homes can provide improved client experience as measured by engagement in meaningful activity ; but that to do so requires attention to the quality of staff performance as well as to basic material and social resources . |
| 15 | Because they know that to do so makes smoking look like a grown-up thing to do … at the moment people are being encouraged to smoke and I regard that as an immoral activity . ’ |
| 16 | The court will not make an order unless it considers it just and equitable to do so having regard , in particular , to the number of shareholders who have been traced but who have not accepted the offer . |
| 17 | And I , and he said to me oh you 're so paranoid Catriona , you always wear your tracksuit bums , you know , you 're so stupid to get so worked up about it . |
| 18 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 19 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 20 | It also serves to reinforce the idea that if accounting is to reflect economic reality it is unlikely to be able to do so using only one cost/value measure . |
| 21 | Many of those authorities also have land available which they are able to use with housing associations to provide new build , but they would not have been able to do so had not this Government been in power . |
| 22 | The centre of the turmoil was a string of ten barges so laden with grain that only inches of freeboard remained . |
| 23 | Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions . |
| 24 | The latter 's daughter , Lady Joan , is certainly interested in ‘ the Condition of England Question ’ , and his guests include the principled , High-Church , and well-born clergyman , St Lys , who retorts to Lord Mamey that war on the cottage does not at first seem so startling a cry as war on the castle . |
| 25 | That it is now compulsory to do so does not seem to increase that duty and , correspondingly , the plaintiff 's share in the responsibility for the damage he suffers . |
| 26 | Delivering a brief lecture on self-control , Leonora began frying bacon , cutting hunks of crusty bread , grating cheese , determined to keep so occupied that there was no attention to spare for the worries which seemed to be multiplying by the minute . |
| 27 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 28 | Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it . |
| 29 | The bitter attacks on Germany by the fledgling but rapidly developing Russian press , after the Berlin settlement of 1878 had so disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans , helped to push Bismarck towards the alliance with the Habsburg empire which took shape in 1879 . |
| 30 | In the first place , local authorities can serve an enforcement notice only ‘ if they consider it expedient to do so having regard to the provisions of the development plan and to any other material considerations ’ ; in short , they must be satisfied that enforcement is necessary in the interests of good planning . |