Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in choosing between two alternative sets of pleasure one can not necessarily decide which is preferable by an arithmetical calculation , nor could one necessarily do so even if one was omniscient . |
| 2 | And then he thought it did not perhaps matter so greatly . |
| 3 | An l.e.d. requires 2V approximately between its ends to make it work and the output from the stereo would hardly achieve this or might only do so intermittently with loud sounds . |
| 4 | They can only do so out of water . |
| 5 | " Perhaps you 'd better do so now . " |
| 6 | Er if you want to take er use of that facility then if you have n't done so you 'd better do so fairly quickly . |
| 7 | Not in those days , not for a good Catholic girl like Mary Moxton , who would only lapse so far , and abortion was a lot further . |
| 8 | Finally , a reminder about circular knitting given in figure 2 will only work so long as there is n't a punchcard in the card reader . |
| 9 | As the outriders can only move so fast , their ability to reconnoitre ahead is limited . |
| 10 | Likewise it is smarter of the donkey to explain calmly that it can only go so fast , than to keep trying to bite its owner . |
| 11 | Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far . |
| 12 | Sanitary legislation could only go so far in monitoring personal health ; what was vital was a popular campaign stressing the individual 's own responsibility to observe the rules of health . |
| 13 | Well there 's the gate , he can only go so far with the gate anyway , so it wo n't really matter yeah yeah you ought to see all the pegs at the back of me fridge |
| 14 | We can only go so far as union negotiators . |
| 15 | Their analytical style did not perhaps serve so well in Brahms 's ethereal second Sextet , passion recalled in tranquillity , with its Agathe motif , tribute to the composer 's one-time fiancee . |
| 16 | Floristry comes cheaper , and I knew Gran 's money would only stretch so far . ’ |
| 17 | Because if not , you 'd better say so now and I 'll go away and never bother you again . |
| 18 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 19 | Loving does not cancel out such bad manners or excuse them , and she would not think so either … . |
| 20 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 21 | You may not think so now , little one , but you were safer as my wife . ’ |
| 22 | An example of this has already appeared in Holland , where the Minister of Justice refused to approve policy allowing lesbians and gays to adopt children , arguing that Holland should not deviate so far from general European policy . |
| 23 | Berlin did not fall so easily . ’ |
| 24 | If only his head did not ache so badly that thought seemed driven out by the throbbing . |
| 25 | Protein molecules do not behave so equivocally . |
| 26 | And how do they react to those activities which might not chime so sweetly in the ears of employers … to Rastafarianism , feminism , peace campaigning or the like ? |
| 27 | I could not act so selfishly . ’ |
| 28 | She swore to herself that when she grew up she would not wait so long between courses . |
| 29 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 30 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |