Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] so [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Roman times the cities and major towns certainly did , and on a local scale many villas must have done so as well . |
| 2 | Numerous others must have done so as well . |
| 3 | You are not obliged to tell anyone at school of your child 's HIV status , but you may choose to do so if you feel it is best for your child to have a trusted adult who knows the situation . |
| 4 | We might begin to think so if we reflected that in parlour games the rules never change , and then noticed that this year the most accomplished of our poets in their forties published , sixty years after Pound 's Lustra and Eliot 's Prufrock , an ambitious poem in the shape of fifteen interlinked pentameter sonnets . |
| 5 | That law might have developed so as to recognise a condictio indebiti — an action for the recovery of money on the ground that it was not due . |
| 6 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 7 | I do n't think that was true then , though it could have become so as Saddam Hussein faced continued sanctions . |
| 8 | Dara had handled her with humiliating ease , and no doubt could continue to do so if their paths were ever to cross again . |
| 9 | Er and I suspect some of our competitors may have to do so as well . |
| 10 | Well yeah , I would 've thought so because le |
| 11 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |
| 12 | Indeed , Hartland and Wright almost carried New Zealand to stumps without loss in their second innings , and probably would have done so but for a debatable bat-pad decision against the former . |
| 13 | It is extremely unlikely that it would have done so because everyone at the ports authority had always envisaged a 24-hour operation . |
| 14 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 15 | A variation order or some other delay caused by the client occurs at a time which does not cause additional delay or cost but which would have done so if the contractor had not already been behind schedule . |
| 16 | There who are they on about three four three four three four to call it 's er a very public figure very public you 're bound to have heard of him you 've probably seen him as well I would have thought I would have thought so as some stage picture always in the paper there as well you know nice big swanky car too . |
| 17 | Mr Janman has asked us to make it clear that , as he wrote in last Saturday 's Sun , he recognises that both crown servants and substantial investors in Britain have an existing right to come here and that though at present he advocates the strict exclusion of all others , he would cease to do so if the Chinese were to attempt ‘ a Tiananmen-style crackdown ’ in Hong Kong in 1997 . |
| 18 | Battle and bloodshed and betrayal lay behind them , and now they met peacefully in this large house , and slept peacefully in their separate rooms , and met at weekends over the marmalade , and would continue to do so until Charles 's new appointment took him , in a couple of months , to New York . |
| 19 | Even if individual employers were fairly bullish about the prospects for their own firm and intend expanding output and employment , they would postpone doing so until the real wage rate had reverted to its permanent value . |
| 20 | Detailed documents may be produced and these will need summarising so as to be usable in the later stages of planning and prioritising . |
| 21 | The bureau has said it will consider doing so if its estimates are good enough . |
| 22 | The Revenue will not impose interest or penalties on anyone who has simply misunderstood the position , but will consider doing so where someone has knowingly made false or fraudulent declarations on the registration form , or deliberately failed to inform their bank or building society that they had become liable to tax . |
| 23 | ‘ She will have to say so before I take her back . ’ |
| 24 | Where a block grant has been paid in the past , the Department will continue to do so unless or until an alternative arrangement is reached with the provider , and undertakes to pay for new individual placements from 1st April 1993 at not less than the DSS rate . |
| 25 | Foals who have learnt to evade bot-flies in such a way , will continue to do so as adult horses if they have access to shelter . |
| 26 | The copper is then moving against a concentration gradient , yet it will continue to do so as long as light is shone on the system to initiate the chain of transferred electrons . |
| 27 | Gilmore said , ‘ The army has worked with the civil authority to bring about a reduction in violence and will continue to do so as long as it is necessary . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Now then , as your duly elected leader , let me assure you that I am always working tirelessly on your behalf , and I will continue to do so as long as I remain your duly elected leader . |
| 29 | Obviously if the demands upon us outweigh our resources this will create stress and will continue to do so until we act either to strengthen our resources or reduce the demands upon us or both . |
| 30 | Quite sharp conflicts continually develop between these two approaches , and will continue to do so until their relation is thought out properly . |