Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your employer may behave so foolishly or ruthlessly that a sensible settlement of your differences seems impossible . |
| 2 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 3 | You swore each and every one of you to undertake this task , you must do so fearlessly and without fear or favour consider the evidence … |
| 4 | You swore each and every one of you , to undertake this task , you must do so fearlessly and without fear or favour consider the evidence and let the chips lie where they fall . |
| 5 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to tax people more rigorously , he should do so openly and not in the disguised form in which that is proposed . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ If the Scottish Secretary wishes to make a statement then he should do so openly and publicly and not allow his young office staff to brief members of the press off the record . |
| 7 | I feel it should do so now and not keep us waiting . |
| 8 | The monetary committee 's report warns that any currency wishing to rejoin should do so only if there is mutual agreement on its parity . |
| 9 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 10 | There is one potential hazard associated with dense ivy growth on a living tree — it may grow so rapidly and thickly that any fungal growth may be hidden . |
| 11 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 12 | it 'll go so far and then it just switches off |
| 13 | My only worry is that , with the ground drying up , they might go so fast that he gets disheartened . |
| 14 | Some of us might go so far as to say that the Genesis account of creation is not literal history but myth in Lewis 's sense . |
| 15 | Share prices could fall so far that his cash offer for DRG , the Basildon Bond company , starts to look attractive . |
| 16 | Besides , if Maidstone could predict so accurately when Elsie would appear then it would be a simple matter to find her again — perhaps at the same time tomorrow . |
| 17 | He wondered anew that the great and glorious power of life could flow so fiercely and endlessly through such a shrivelled and unbeautiful fountainhead . |
| 18 | She would n't have believed that he could move so fast as , with a rushing like that of fluid from a punctured sac , the rotten body comes slithering out in a wave of its own juices . |
| 19 | It had seemed a little exaggerated that an elderly woman could move so rapidly and catch a younger man off guard . |
| 20 | He could not understand how the hrududu could move so quickly and smoothly through the fields . |
| 21 | I only know that it was remarkable that he could react so swiftly and swoop down round the rabbit 's ears . |
| 22 | He had my lord 's entire confidence — indeed it is hard to credit that anyone could change so radically as has my uncle . ’ |
| 23 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |
| 24 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ No , Nina , I was n't in love with David Markham , ’ said Rachel firmly , then , seeing that Nina was still slightly bemused , she added , ‘ In fact , I think you could go so far as to say I detested him . ’ |
| 27 | Tape Worm : I 'm normally very polite and hardly swear , but I 'd go so far as to say that Tape Worm is one ugly ( Censored ! — Ed ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd go so far as to say I was very impressed . |
| 29 | I 'd say more than that , in fact I 'd go so far as to mention the name of Blanche Ingram and the word , marriage . |
| 30 | In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life . |