Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] do so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet for as long as she could remember she 'd been instructed to do so . |
| 2 | Antonia said if Mr Mellor had intended resigning over their affair ‘ he would have done so long ago — or would have been forced to do so long ago ’ . |
| 3 | They may have been encouraged to do so by General Aslam Beg 's recent public condemnations of the war , couched in accusations of conspiracy by the West to undermine the Muslim world . |
| 4 | ( If the suspect , having been asked to do so , refuses to take part in a formal identification procedure the prosecutor is in the clear , as the refusal provides a justification for the dock identification : John [ 1973 ] Crim.L.R. 113 . ) |
| 5 | The Consumer Protection Act also makes a supplier liable if he fails to identify the producer within a reasonable time , having been asked to do so by the claimant . |
| 6 | Those appointed to the senior status of High Court judge will have acted as Recorders and will often have sat as Deputy High Court judges , having been invited to do so from time to time . |
| 7 | In April 1764 the Mozarts left for London , having been urged to do so by their contacts in Paris . |
| 8 | In 1983 , visiting a university in provincial Norway , I found students of English grappling perplexedly with Derrida , having been encouraged to do so by their British professor . |
| 9 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 10 | Afterwards it became evident that the man had been asked to do so , but Dinah made no immediate enquiries . |
| 11 | which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple . |
| 12 | It was because he had been summoned to do so , by no less than his paymaster , Edward , King of England . |
| 13 | She felt awkward sitting down but , since she had been bidden to do so , could not choose to stand . |
| 14 | The US environmentalists , in a critical report , had accused Guerreiro of failing to act quickly enough to demarcate the boundaries of a proposed reservation for the Yanomami Indians although he had been ordered to do so by the government in mid-April . |
| 15 | The new press law formally abolished censorship and allowed individuals to publish newspapers and magazines ( previously only institutions had been allowed to do so ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Maggy Meade-King reports Part exchange SIXTY-SIX PER CENT of British mothers who work are considered to do so part-time ; 11 per cent work 40 or more hours per week . |
| 18 | Most pilots do not instinctively look across and compare their height with the trees unless they have been taught to do so , and more often than not a pilot will try to judge by angles and positioning alone . |
| 19 | In practice , few attempts have been made to do so . |
| 20 | If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . |
| 21 | Seen in this light , management is an activity which only some people engage in , or as something which some people do to other people — once they have been chartered/qualified to do so . |
| 22 | We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters . |