Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | We intend to apply the ‘ Green Rules ’ to all aspects of our operations wherever reasonably and economically practicable to do so . |
| 2 | As an example of the first , changes dependent on effects of atmosphere or mood within a play , I would instance the way in which , in Measure for Measure , the Duke , in his disguise as a Friar , intervenes at the point where Isabella , realizing that Claudio is not wholly willing to die so that she should retain her chastity , collapses into hysterical abuse . |
| 3 | ‘ It was obviously right to do so because I was never corrected . ’ |
| 4 | If Mr Hussein has decided to do so — by ordering a full or partial withdrawal from Kuwait before January 15th — he will find it less humiliating to say so to the European Community , or to Arab mediators , than to Mr Baker . |
| 5 | The Homes might well do so , but the lesser East Border clans , the Kerrs , Turnbulls , Olivers , Rutherfords , Cranstouns and the like were unlikely to feel sufficiently strong to do so . |
| 6 | While two companies were prepared to pay this cost for their searches , three others were less willing to do so . |
| 7 | The Government of the Irish Republic and anyone else who wishes to make their views known to us before we make a judgment are , of course , entirely free to do so . |
| 8 | So much to see so little time ! |
| 9 | They are so fortunate to have so many ! |
| 10 | In fact of the 76 district planning authorities responding to the survey referred to earlier only 10 did so , the following being examples of where odour emission was so regarded , i.e. where a proposed residential development would have : |
| 11 | However , while it is possible to discount the efficiency consequences at low rates of tax , it becomes less and less easy to do so as the rates of tax get higher . |
| 12 | In fact , teenagers in the UK are less likely to become pregnant and less likely to become mothers than they were 15 years ago and far less likely to do so than teenagers in the United States . |
| 13 | However , while the LEA maintained , as was its obligation , a global view of primary schools ' needs , heads and teachers in individual schools were less likely to do so . |
| 14 | Therefore it is not surprising that those horses and ponies that are likely to become overweight and founder , are especially likely to do so in the spring . |
| 15 | We had nothing much better to do so we all piled in . |
| 16 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 17 | Group members can also be asked if they could give a small life history of themselves , although never without prior warning , and only if they are sufficiently confident to do so . |
| 18 | I went back to hospital on Sunday morning but it was not until Monday that we knew that ‘ seldom in the world of human endeavour have so many owed so much to so few . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Of the 64,000 people in the Hong Kong camps , only 5,000 had so far been accepted as genuine refugees . |
| 21 | Even so , churchmen must have disagreed with Cnut 's behaviour , although perhaps many did so diplomatically , that is to say , silently . |
| 22 | at least presetable channel selectors ( only useful to have so many if you have satellite TV ) |
| 23 | and they add that it is only reasonable to do so ; for the parrot alone can give a good imitation of the human voice . |
| 24 | One girl said that she had been unable to breathe , and was only able to do so when she covered her face with a pillow . |
| 25 | But filmmakers were only able to rise so impressively to the challenge because of what had happened in the preceding decade . |
| 26 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 27 | In one of his letters to Gould in Australia , Prince writes , ‘ I and Joseph are both much pleased to hear so good a report of Gilbert . |
| 28 | So what happened to their new years resolutions … only one win so far for any of our Central South footballing sides in 1993 . |
| 29 | The founder 's desire is usually to hand on to his children a more prosperous business than he inherited , and under the latest provisions it will be extremely difficult to do so . |
| 30 | If a Service fails to argue a project into the costings at an early stage , it will find it much harder to do so subsequently . |