Example sentences of "[vb infin] so [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're five eight you 're five eight , you stand , you st I do n't think same size as my mum I do n't think so somehow cos my mums five eight and my mums erm quite tall |
| 2 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 3 | His insecurity will persist so long as he bottles up change , no matter how well his ruling party behaves . |
| 4 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 5 | It 's odd how you can chat so animatedly whilst someone you 've only just met is poking your most intimate spots , is n't it ? |
| 6 | The older the child the longer you can wait so long as there are no other signs of serious illness . |
| 7 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 8 | It does not really matter so long as we accept both points of view . |
| 9 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 10 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’ |
| 12 | However , they will be able to waive best execution , and indeed can do so even if they are discretionary customers ( which is a helpful relaxation and reflects the new spirit of liberalisation ) ; the best practice would be to have this waiver in writing . |
| 13 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
| 14 | Thus in choosing between two alternative sets of pleasure one can not necessarily decide which is preferable by an arithmetical calculation , nor could one necessarily do so even if one was omniscient . |
| 15 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 16 | The patient may have to move about in a relatively confined area , so you have to make sure he can do so safely before he begins . |
| 17 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |
| 18 | In the light of the above , it is clear that two matrices having the same modal matrix do not necessarily permute ; they will do so only if their spectral matrices permute . |
| 19 | It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 20 | The monetary committee 's report warns that any currency wishing to rejoin should do so only if there is mutual agreement on its parity . |
| 21 | Though the latter can , within limits , create reasons , it can do so only when there is a non-will-based reason why it should . |
| 22 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 23 | I do n't mind , I do n't mind so long as I just get out a bit on , into town and |
| 24 | Finally , a reminder about circular knitting given in figure 2 will only work so long as there is n't a punchcard in the card reader . |
| 25 | You do n't sleep so much as you get older . |
| 26 | Let them hate so long as they fear . |
| 27 | They do n't forget so easily where I come from . |
| 28 | Lévi-Strauss has rendered social anthropology an invaluable service in emphasizing the significance of such contrasting motifs ; although we need not go so far as him and turn our subject into an esoteric animal , vegetable or mineral parlour-game in which every card is a joker and can assume whatever meaning the player likes . |
| 29 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 30 | Ninez saw no reason to complain or criticise so long as we marched fast enough . |