Example sentences of "[adv] do 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | " Perhaps you 'd better do so now . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Will the Minister confirm that the Government will take the necessary steps — if necessary through Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution — to ensure that PowerGen complies with its commitment to retrofit 4 GW of coal burn should it not do so voluntarily ? |
| 7 | The Minister warned : ‘ He may be able to carry on in the job but he can not do so effectively . |
| 8 | For example , by the third sub-maxim of Manner ( " be brief " ) , wherever I avoid some simple expression in favour of some more complex paraphrase , it may be assumed that I do not do so wantonly , but because the details are somehow relevant to the present enterprise . |
| 9 | Rather , if faith does not begin , reason will not do so either . |
| 10 | The S.N.M. declined to attend and it seems that General Aidid did not do so either . |
| 11 | What I am clear about is that Parliament has not conferred such autonomy on a 16- to 18-year-old child by virtue of section 8 of the Act of 1969 , and that the common law , as interpreted by the House of Lords in Gillick 's case does not do so either . |
| 12 | In a dramatic personal speech , Mr Lamont disclosed that on Black Wednesday the Prime Minister wrote to him saying he was not resigning ‘ and I should not do so either ’ . |
| 13 | The fact that there may be others in society who do not do so well need not even occur to the individual . |
| 14 | Alas the ancients did not do so well at Tilberthwaite as we have seen . |
| 15 | It has been argued , for a long time now , that the reason girls do not do so well at mathematics is that females , from at least adolescence onwards , have poorer spatial visualisation ability than males . |
| 16 | Shareholders benefit from a dividend total lifted from 18.8p in 1991 to 19.1p , after a final of 12.9p , but holders of L&G investment policies will not do so well . |
| 17 | But he did not do so immediately . |
| 18 | I could not do so honourably . |
| 19 | If she is very apprehensive about how she is going to manage her role in society as a woman on her own , you could remind her of something she has probably completely forgotten : that she coped with life quite adequately as a single woman , before she met her husband , so there is no reason to suppose that she can not do so again , and possibly even better now because of the love they shared and her greater maturity . |
| 20 | I will not do so again . |
| 21 | It was even acceptable to chant or recite a verse or two in public if the young mirza had ‘ beauty and a good voice ’ ; but he should not do so too often or at length for fear — heaven forbid — that he be mistaken for a professional poet or singer . |
| 22 | If presented as a guide , not a rule book , and project leaders are free to reject any of its provisions , they do not do so irresponsibly . |
| 23 | A person who wields authority in such a society does not do so typically by virtue of traditional rules ( about kingship or hereditary authority , for example ) or because of that person 's supposed special charismatic qualities , but as a result of an impersonal rule which has been consciously created by a rational legislative process , Weber says that the appropriate administrative form for a system of legal authority — because it is the most efficient form — is bureaucracy ( Weber 1969 : chs 3 and 11 ) . |
| 24 | But although I can not do so systematically at this juncture some limited anticipatory comments may be in order . |
| 25 | It stated clearly that a flat rate charge could not cope with the scale of local authority expenditure and that it could not do so fairly . |
| 26 | will not do so now , |
| 27 | ‘ We will not do so now . ’ |
| 28 | However , they do not do so directly , as earlier writers in the ‘ great divide ’ tradition did . |
| 29 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 30 | Such theories at least attempt to cope with the reality of the female presence , even if they do not do so accurately . |