Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] so [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have the opportunity to do so when they meet next week , ironically in New Zealand . |
| 2 | The suspended sentence would be activated with the term reduced so as to produce an overall total of 18 months . |
| 3 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 4 | Anyone who wants the Ring does so because they are convinced that they could use it in order to destroy Darkness . |
| 5 | Thus , the Act has no effect in the internal workings of children 's hearings : there is no question of ‘ rehabilitation ’ as that term is understood in the Act applying so as to prevent a later children 's hearing exploring the circumstances of an earlier offence or hearing or disposal . |
| 6 | No stronger message could be delivered to Labour headquarters of the need to do so than a Conservative victory on Thursday . |
| 7 | On the other side , to mollify France , it was agreed that British participation in the revamped body would involve the stationing of British troops in West Germany unless a majority of its partners consented to their withdrawal ; however , Britain reserved the right to do so if an emergency situation elsewhere demanded a redeployment of its military forces . |
| 8 | This is concerned with aesthetic aspects and it is not sufficient that the article simply looks pretty or pleasing but the eye-appeal of the article should be such that persons acquiring or using the article do so because of the appearance of articles made to the design . |
| 9 | It said 1,200 of the 1,700 employees that left during the quarter did so after voluntarily accepting severance packages , and it expects more departures as the job-cutting programme spreads to new countries . |
| 10 | To say that a particular department ( or programme ) provides value for money means that those who strive to provide the service do so as best they can , given the resources that are available and the environment within which they operate . |
| 11 | If this is the case , the adjustment is best made with the strings slackened so as to reduce the possibility of damaging the knife edges on the bridgeplate . |
| 12 | The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively . |
| 13 | The boys contributing to the uproar did so as well , and were rewarded for any unusually telling stroke of humour ( within the tradition-bound schoolboy framework ) by a smirk of appreciation . |
| 14 | All joints were then soldered and smoothed , the tack-heads soldered so as to maintain the water-resistance and airtight quality of the coffin . |
| 15 | Defense officials say they have not yet forbidden any publication , but insist that they possess the power to do so if they choose . |
| 16 | Before passing on , I will introduce a piece of terminology of my own and call central-system thinking ‘ cognisance ’ , a term chosen so as to give the flavour of knowledge , rationality , and accessibility to consciousness . |
| 17 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 18 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 19 | The operative principle should therefore be one of a ‘ retributive maximum , as advocated by Norval Morris ( 1974 : 75 ) : while an individual offender may be punished up to the level indicated by the tariff , there is no obligation to do so if other valid considerations indicate that a more lenient course will be more constructive or humane . |
| 20 | This suggests that those courts making relatively heavy use of imprisonment ‘ frequently have no reason to do so if the experience of other courts is any criterion ’ ( Hood , 1962 : 122 ) . |
| 21 | Even when , as we show later , Brazil had an opportunity to do so when it invited the multinationals to establish its automobile industry , it chose not to exercise its power for fear of discouraging potential entrants . |
| 22 | Any set of conditions that leads to an increase in the activity of an area does so because it is tapping its functions . |
| 23 | If you are acting for a builder-seller selling a new dwelling and the builder is on the National House-Building Council 's register ( Chapter 13 ) , you may not , unless the property is completed some time before completion of the sale , have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over , in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand . |