Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] so [subord] " in BNC.

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1 A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context .
2 v.etc. ) , and that she does so when he appears cross-gartered may be an instance of humouring a madman by descending to his level ( III.iv. 16ff . ) .
3 He is polite and very careful about what he says so as not to offend anyone .
4 HSE 's director-general , , said : ‘ Law that is fussy or demands unnecessary detail is ineffective and also gives too many opportunities to consultants and others to exaggerate what it requires so as to get themselves business — quite a problem at present . ’
5 Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all .
6 We have already seen that someone with a voidable title can nevertheless transfer to an innocent purchaser a perfect title , provided he does so before his title is avoided .
7 To suggest that what they were doing before was of low priority is a misleading simplification — could one for example conclude that if a professor moves from one department to another he does so because the former is of low quality ?
8 Fangorn looks long at the two hobbits when they tell him Gandalf is dead ; he does so because he does n't believe them , having seen Gandalf himself a couple of days before .
9 And it does so while providing a perfect fit .
10 It might be objected that when the comparison of habituation and latent inhibition gives rise to a discrepancy , it does so because we have failed to compare like with like .
11 Thus in many cases where a buyer seeks to reject goods supplied under a sale contract , it does so because the transaction has proved uneconomical , for instance because the market has fallen , or because it has found a cheaper source of supply ; it may then sieze on any trivial breach , or any ambiguity in the contract , in order to justify rejection of the goods .
12 It does so when the eye catches the castle of Rapperswil towards the end of the lake on the eastern shore .
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