Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It should do so today , ’ says anatomist Dr Robert Presley of University College Cardiff , commenting on the paper . |
| 3 | I feel it should do so now and not keep us waiting . |
| 4 | it 'll go so far and then it just switches off |
| 5 | It assumed it could do so again . |
| 6 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 7 | It used to heat so then you had to give it time to cool and settle down . |
| 8 | Prior to 1910 it was by no means clear either that Labour would replace the Liberals or that it would move So far ahead of these rivals as to reduce them to marginal sects . |
| 9 | I hope that in similar circumstances in the future it would do so again . |
| 10 | It would do so just as surely today , in the 1990s , as it would have done in the late 1950s . |
| 11 | ’ I had no idea it would do so well . |
| 12 | ‘ … I did not think it would come so quickly , ’ he told Tom Jones on 4 November . |
| 13 | But it would taste so much better from a Wedgwood pot . ’ |
| 14 | Mind you , if we went back in our house now it would look so much smaller would n't it ? |
| 15 | But it will do so strictly within the framework of the democratic process by giving up any legal and political advantages , presenting its programme and defending it in discussions , [ and ] co-operating with other social and political forces … |
| 16 | My guess is that the German authority is waiting to be forced by outside opinion to reimpose some form of genuine , serious ban ; but that it will do so only at a price — that of an assurance from other major national authorities that they will actively target specific drug-suspects under their own jurisdiction , proceeding upon information they may already possess but have chosen not to ‘ activate ’ . |
| 17 | It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 18 | I hope that that will evolve in the fullness of time , but it will do so only when the electrification programme is extended to all parts of the country . |
| 19 | I know of my hon. Friend 's interest in the matter , following the report of the Select Committee on Employment , and I can give an assurance that if the consultants ' report to which I referred has not yet reached the Department of Employment , it will do so as soon as possible . |
| 20 | When ‘ PURPLE ’ has yielded to some new variation on Silk Cut 's eternal thematics , and when the airline traveller with egg on his face has faded from the public consciousness on which it will have so briefly impinged , Magritte 's images will still be there , mysterious and self-sufficient . |
| 21 | ‘ It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly . |
| 22 | Should I simply ignore what that delicious mouth is saying , and remember instead how sweet it tastes and how it can mould so beautifully to mine ? ’ |
| 23 | But it 's essentially , therefore , that natural selection is only going to produce adaptations if it can do so gradually , that 's basically the guts of Darwin 's position . |
| 24 | Though the latter can , within limits , create reasons , it can do so only when there is a non-will-based reason why it should . |
| 25 | It can do so only through a constant turnover of individuals , whose sole purpose in being born is to reproduce and then die . |
| 26 | It can do so only within five years from becoming aware of the location of the object and the identity of the possessor , and within thirty years of the illegal removal . |
| 27 | Consequently , even if a non-member country may possibly be entitled not to recognise a flag granted in a manner contrary to the Geneva Convention , it can do so only in so far as there is no ‘ genuine link , ’ regardless as to its nature , between the vessel and the state whose flag it is flying . |