Example sentences of "so [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the banks wanted to seek relief , they would have to do so through a separate case brought against the local authority , he added .
2 Those of the nightshade , tomato and several other plants , however , do so through a small opening at the tip , through which the pollen falls a few grains at a time .
3 Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm .
4 The racist imagination turns the world upside down , but it does so through a conservative appropriation of existing structures and discourses of power .
5 However , most who moved out of cities as a result of planned decentralization did so through the new-town programme .
6 But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake .
7 Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital .
8 This study will examine such problems , as and when they arise — and will do so through an ethnographic grasp of cultural differences and misunderstandings on topics that might range from the price of butter to question of minorities , language , drugs and terror .
9 He did n't like the black Americans , so during the Civil War he fought against the men from the North , and with those from the South .
10 So during the First World War and in the Second for severe burn cases they use er used Lavender mm if they did n't have any drugs of any kind .
11 It is not that she believes this evolving female corporate future has yet been reflected by numbers of women employed at senior levels but that it is inevitable it will do so during the next decade .
12 We also recognise so to are the workers of County Councils , and District Councils , particularly because the er the government initiatives , one good point to V A T on fuel , and the increasing in in National Insurance Contributions and increases in taxation , so between the two sides has got to be some accommodation , bearing in mind the need for both of us to want to continue to deliver quality services .
13 ‘ County ’ men were transferred around at short intervals , while we were static in the city , never moving more than a mile or so between the three divisions to undertake real ‘ city work ’ .
14 There was a tricky thing called the seminally defiled state , and you had to make sure that when your old lady left the house she was doing so for a specific purpose , but on the whole even Marwan was pretty laissez-faire about a girl and a boy talking about subjects of mutual interest .
15 It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion .
16 They must also continue to be so for a reasonable time after delivery .
17 Three lessons came from this raid : the need for means to identify friend from foe , always difficult in night actions but particularly so for a small party on a hostile shore ; the problems of coordinating secret operations with regular forces — friendly Spitfires had delayed the boats for an hour in mid-Channel on their outward voyage before establishing their true identity ; the difficulty of pin-point navigation , the third point , was the most crucial of all .
18 In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards .
19 Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending .
20 He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time .
21 Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well .
22 So for a short while the two movements , Co-operation and trade unionism , had fused .
23 This is in a twelve hour so for a daily flow we 've This was a surveying period about twenty percent for to these for a full day .
24 Once again , even if the main points at issue had been side-stepped , the two countries were at peace , and had agreed to be so for a whole generation .
25 So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited .
26 For a load torque In some motors the torque/position characteristic is shaped to give a high value of stiffness near the equilibrium position , so for a given load torque the static position error is reduced .
27 There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation .
28 It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames .
29 Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game .
30 When each Evangelist recorded the stories about Jesus he did so for a particular purpose .
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