Example sentences of "so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the banks wanted to seek relief , they would have to do so through a separate case brought against the local authority , he added . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What appears to be one of the earliest sections of the manuscripts the section beginning ‘ So through the evening , through the violet air ’ ( dating from c.1914 ) contains an arresting image which would find its way into the final poem . |
| 4 | But perhaps more importantly the transvestite was contributing to a knowledge and a culture which undermined the discursive formations of authority itself , doing so through her perverse reinscription within those formations . |
| 5 | Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic simultaneously confirmed and exploited this inextricable connection between the sexual and the ( apparently ) non-sexual , between sexual perversion and social subversion , and does so through Wilde 's own version of that connection : ‘ what paradox was to me in the sphere of thought , perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ’ ( Wilde , De Profundis , 466 ) . |
| 6 | I am concerned here with that mode of camp which undermines the categories which exclude it , and does so through parody and mimicry . |
| 7 | We are now back where we were in Elizabeth I 's days : a middle power , making our way in a world dominated by two superpowers , and doing so through intuitive manipulation of balances of power , as we have always done over the centuries . |
| 8 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
| 9 | ‘ So through the Void the Children ran homeward |
| 10 | It continued to be so through more than two decades , and then — in the mid-1980s — it seemed , almost inexplicably , to be secure no longer , despite his having only recently been honoured with a knighthood for services to literature . |
| 11 | Surely the 18 people taking part are doing so through a love of their chosen sport , and not to become national heroes . |
| 12 | We will do so through future privatisations , help for would-be home owners in council tenancies and further encouragement for the spread of personal pensions . |
| 13 | It does so through the authority it exercises over government officials , and because the population at large is willing to see morality enforced , even in matters in which they are not subject to the authority of the government . |
| 14 | ‘ If it is necessary to convey a message , I would ask you to do so through a messenger . |
| 15 | However , most who moved out of cities as a result of planned decentralization did so through the new-town programme . |
| 16 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 17 | Many people who get seriously into debt do so through no fault of their own . |
| 18 | In 1973 , approximately 14% of the persons training for building surveying were doing so through full-time study ; still a minority , but trends were obvious and it was predicted that seven years later , by 1980 , that percentage would have increased to around 30% ; in the event the figure was 46% . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | While bears , wolves and the like undoubtedly eat mountain goats , they probably do so through scavenging for carcasses rather than through direct predation . |
| 21 | So through that dismal day Hugh Templar sat at his kitchen table and pursued the adventures of a team of space-travellers who had discovered a world directly behind the sun , which was a mirror-image of our own Earth , with the same physical composition , but with a rather different kind of population , a race having strange and , I hoped , thought-provoking ideas about how to run their planet … |
| 22 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 23 | The includers are not always merely disinterested advocates of a philosophy , but people who have become so through experience , through the sheer amount of time they spend with members of the excluded social group . |
| 24 | In these terms one might argue that some languages ‘ give away ’ more about the status of a speaker ( and the relationship with an interlocutor ) through their grammatical structure , while others do so through paralinguistic features . |
| 25 | There is , however , no necessary reason to suppose that languages which indicate status only in paralinguistic ways offer their users more possibility of ‘ approximating to neutral , objective descriptions ’ than those which oblige their users to do so through grammatical structures . |
| 26 | In relation to the timetable of events included in the agreement , time will not be of the essence but ( in accordance with the general law ) may be made so through the service of notice providing a reasonable extension of time . |
| 27 | With one of the highest rates of college and university entry in the world it appears that those who get to elite positions , do so through individual effort , and merit is thus properly rewarded . |
| 28 | Read it you must , but do so through narrowed eyes … |
| 29 | Many people who get seriously into debt do so through no fault of their own . |
| 30 | A few tree-living species can travel fifteen metres or so through the air , about a hundred times their body length , by becoming gliders . |