Example sentences of "[to-vb] so [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And did the fourth consecutive Tory victory imply that Her Majesty 's loyal Opposition was destined to remain so for the foreseeable future ? |
| 2 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 3 | By 1637 the Church family , from whom the mill takes its name , were in residence and were to remain so until the early part of the 18th century . |
| 4 | Sometimes , however , an alternative , less heroic but equally anti-correctionalist picture was painted : working-class crime was in reality mostly petty , irrelevant and not a problem , but had been made to appear so by the mass media blowing it up , misrepresenting it and creating crime-scares . |
| 5 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 6 | Some bank loans are provided in the form of a standby-credit or commitment which means a bank will provide funds if required to do so over a stated period , either on a fixed or floating rate basis . |
| 7 | It is very effective , in that it can be used to cool an extinguish solid combustibles and flammable liquids , and systems which apply it can be made to do so over a limited ‘ volume ’ of the racking where the fire is i.e. the fire can be ‘ pin-pointed ’ . |
| 8 | And if he and his secretary had returned , she felt she stood a better chance of establishing an interview by calling in person rather than trying to do so over the phone . |
| 9 | If the banks wanted to seek relief , they would have to do so through a separate case brought against the local authority , he added . |
| 10 | ‘ If it is necessary to convey a message , I would ask you to do so through a messenger . |
| 11 | The mere fact that it was convenient to do so through a story of a murder and the murderer 's subsequent feelings and actions had nothing essential to contribute . |
| 12 | There were times when he felt cut off by some imponderable barrier ; the usual sights and sounds reached him but they seemed to do so through a screen of interference , like a badly tuned radio . |
| 13 | It is common practice for a collector wishing to resell works that he owns to do so through the gallery of origin , for a variety of reasons . |
| 14 | Despite the increase in the number of scholars studying the period , the same preoccupation with art-history and the origins of peoples persisted and continued to do so through the 1960s in studies of pottery ( Myres 1969 ; 1970 ) and metalwork ( Hawkes 1961 ; Hawkes and Dunning 1961 ) . |
| 15 | The common outcome of these age discriminatory elements of the social security system is that two people with equally severe disabilities receive widely differing benefits and total incomes simply as a result of their age , and will continue to do so under the Government 's recent proposals . |
| 16 | Individual users of software will not be permitted to copy or distribute copies of any software product or its documentation unless permitted to do so under the terms of the licence . |
| 17 | There is no appropriation at the moment when he takes possession of the goods because he was entitled to do so under the terms of the contract of sale , a contract which is , it is true , voidable , but has not been avoided at the time the goods are handed over . |
| 18 | There is no appropriation at the moment when he takes possession of the goods because he was entitled to do so under the terms of the contract of sale , a contract which is , it is true , voidable , but has not been avoided at the time the goods are handed over . |
| 19 | The accused took possession of the goods because he was entitled to do so under the terms of the contract . |
| 20 | In considering the relationship between the religious education of Catholic Secondary School pupils and the S.C.E. Short Courses in Religious and Moral Education it is appropriate to do so under the following headings : |
| 21 | Although Marian and Allen had not passed north of the Swamp in the night the Leader thought it probable that they might try to do so during the day . |
| 22 | Many said that they welcomed the opportunity to work , and were not able to do so during the week because there was no one look after their children . |
| 23 | His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety . |
| 24 | But chance played an important part in this , placing Norah Brunt in the right place at the right time — she was asked to take over a retiring teacher 's movement class but refused to do so without a qualification . |
| 25 | FTC could probably make the idea work without coverage of the 22 Premier League clubs or the European Cup mini-leagues , but it would be impossible to do so without the co-operation of the Football League clubs unloaded by the Premier League as , ironically , an impediment to their progress . |
| 26 | Unless a Guardian ad Litem ( GAL ) is appointed , they may have to do so without the assistance of a welfare report . |
| 27 | Curiously , this is the only Powell/Pressburger film to give such credits and the first Powell one to do so since the multi-directed The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) , which in fact won that year 's Oscar for effects and sound . |
| 28 | From Germany , they travelled by train to Sweden , where he applied for asylum , the first American citizen to do so since the Vietnam War . |
| 29 | President Kurt Waldheim of Austria visited Tehran on June 9-11 , the first West European head of state to do so since the 1979 revolution . |
| 30 | As reported on June 22 , the government announced that 20-year contracts would be offered to several companies to explore and develop marginal oil fields , the first time commercial companies had been allowed to do so since the nationalization of the oil industry in 1976 . |