Example sentences of "and so [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was nearly frantic , and ran about the house naked , endeavouring by every means to excite sensations in different parts of my body , and so to weaken the enemy by creating division . |
| 2 | When , however , need and dare are used non-assertively , it is possible for the speaker to feel that there is nothing real ( no real need or daring ) situated in time to constitute a before-position in relation to the event evoked by the infinitive , and so to use the bare infinitive after these verbs as with the modals . |
| 3 | There was nothing to suggest that that power to sue should be limited so as to exclude the proceedings before the court , save by the nature of the trade union itself , and that did not exclude a claim in respect of a libel ‘ calculated to arouse doubts and suspicions in the minds of members [ of the union itself ] , and so to destroy the cohesion and will to act of the union : ’ per Scott L.J . |
| 4 | In short , therefore , the best advice for combating jet-lag is to adopt a new routine in accord with your new time zone , to strengthen all possible time-cues , and so to reset the body clock as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | During the hunts , females are left on their own lot , and so to enable the whole group to re-form after the hunt , the two sexes have to co-ordinate their separate movements , staying within calling distance of each other . |
| 6 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |
| 7 | The aim of this study is to review the relationship between the formal structures of European institutions and the dynamics of social , economic , and external change , and so to lay the foundations for a renewed theoretical debate about the processes of integration within the West European region . |
| 8 | On the particular facts of the case , service on a wholly owned , closely controlled subsidiary was reasonably calculated to secure timely notice to the parent company , and so to meet the United States version of due process . |
| 9 | We are thinking about those children who , whatever their socio-economic background , have parents who have the time , or somehow make the time , to talk with them , to read to them , to read for themselves , and so to offer an example . |
| 10 | But perhaps her greatest achievement with the chimps at Gombe has been to show how astonishingly close they are to humanity — and so to narrow the gap between us and the rest of the animal world . |
| 11 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 12 | In what ways may it become possible to create greater use of the recreational advantages and so to boost the tourist industry of Northern Ireland ? |
| 13 | 3 ) for the elastic moduli involved and so to obtain the time-dependent behaviour of the composite . |
| 14 | When the eight- and ten-year-olds did produce causal connectives , they used them in a way appropriate to the deductive mode , by using because to introduce evidence and so to introduce a conclusion . |
| 15 | The historian-punter would be sitting in bonds ( which have rallied in the past few months ) waiting patiently to switch back to equities , starting cautiously in the middle of this year , and so to ride the bull market of the mid-1990s . |
| 16 | Here the object of make is felt to be completely under the sway of the subject and so to have no initiative of its own : the causal agent brings about a change in this object in an immediate fashion without any room for a condition–consequence or stimulus–reaction relationship . |
| 17 | The task of this chapter is to investigate the phenomenon of style in general terms , and so to prepare the ground for the analysis of its various aspects and manifestations in later chapters . |
| 18 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 19 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 20 | It is important to recognise these natural reactions and their effect on groundwater quality , and so to establish a baseline against which contamination can be measured . |
| 21 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |