Example sentences of "[noun] could do so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he ordered his gunners to fire , before the enemy could do so . |
| 2 | Clearly , someone who wishes to hedge his exposure to variations in the price of an asset in his portfolio could do so either by purchasing an appropriate forward contract — from a bank perhaps — or by purchasing exchange traded futures . |
| 3 | Work itself with its complicated fluctuation of task was seen as too complicated for a worker to understand and the belief was that only management could do so . |
| 4 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 5 | But of course could do so if you so wished . |
| 6 | She did n't know how to clarify and quantify her anxieties , and she wished that her husband could do so for her without revealing his paucity of intellect . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 8 | And if no Government could do so , then the necessary foundation to government by consent of the governed would crumble and , sooner or later , the country would have become unmanageable as an authentic democracy . |
| 9 | But those scientists who sought to reconstruct these links could do so without worrying very much about how populations of individual animals adapted to the challenges posed by an ever-changing environment . |
| 10 | ‘ Ah ! ’ he observed , as he had done at Bantry Bay , ‘ None but my brave English could do so brave an action ! ’ |