Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [verb] so " in BNC.

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1 I do n't understand what he was doing with his I mean that must hurt so much .
2 At first sight this may seem so for Locke too .
3 This may seem so obvious as not to need stating , but I believe that it can be overlooked .
4 Some might say so , I suppose .
5 Quite a lot of fans , at one point or another , succeeded in starting off chants and songs , but few could do so consistently .
6 Few could go so far as Musurus Pasha , who during his thirty-five years as Turkish ambassador in London staffed the embassy entirely with his sons , nephews and sons-in-law ; but even in the most developed states of western Europe and on the eve of the 1914 conflict family influences could still be important .
7 The extent to which this need remain so tightly gender-related is debatable .
8 Fifty per cent of Sun 's business comes from indirect channels and this will remain so in future , said Thompson .
9 3 Apply heat with a hair dryer to seal the film — this will shrink so there are no wrinkles
10 ‘ A good manager and record company has to explain this will go so far and stop . ’
11 Some will say so : others may just ignore you .
12 I would therefore urge people to try and talk about these kinds of things before the situation arises because this can avoid so much misery later on .
13 And when I go to Wales for a holiday and there are Welshmen , they 're just as good as I am , some can sing so much nicer , and I 've worked with Scotsmen in engineering factories , and there 's no better engineers than Scotsmen , but they do n't necessarily call them British .
14 I feel that some can pay so much , while others can pay more .
15 Others dream when not fully asleep , either while waking ( hypnopompic dreams ) or while falling ‘ to sleep ( hypnagogic dreams ) , and a few can do so lucidly — Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson are two examples of writers who have gained inspiration through the use of lucid hypnagogic dreams .
16 It lacks the personal touch it lacks the personal touch which is why you never send your people letters saying you 're fired or you know lost a job you always talk to them and it can be more expensive in terms of materials you use it 's it is very very expensive on mat materials and cheap on time but it 's a personal relationships that 's the first thing okay that 'll do so when do we use it ?
17 Will there come a time when that might become so acute that the Minister would be prepared to consider an opt-out as opposed to an opt-in donor system ?
18 and in rugby so much can happen so quickly that I believe we have earned that 50–50 chance . ’
19 Who would imagine that a thin , stuck-up-looking type like that could know so much ?
20 These would undertake so many operations for half a million pounds .
21 The raising of a mentally handicapped child is a long and hard road , but then many would say so is bringing up any child .
22 Most will hope to return to the House ; and on part form many will do so , but the immediate problems of adjustment will be hard .
23 I have heard of considerably larger numbers being taken by other people but when I hear such tales I am inclined to wonder how it is that so many can become so jammed together without suffocating in such a small hole .
24 I wonder how they all can look so well .
25 The first is the dollar ; Filipinos are now allowed to buy the American currency , and more will do so if the peso continues to slide .
26 However , Executive Agencies are in some cases becoming trading funds and it appears that many more will become so in the future ) .
27 That would explain so much .
28 Moreover , the curriculum was augmented by at least one thing directly attributable to the project , and this was the development of study skills , which according to the head was : one spin-off effect that I did n't envisage , I did n't realise that would come so quickly afterwards …
29 In theory , the Community Care Act of 1990 allows local authorities to provide financial assistance to relatives but it remains to be seen whether any will do so when the new system starts in 1993 .
30 Stone free interval — Earlier reports suggested that if gall stones were going to recur , most would do so within two years of stopping bile acid treatment or not at all .
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