Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , although most retail grocery advertising in the UK used to consist of lists of prices , and consumers tended to expect it to do so , it is unrealistic to expect advertising to do the major job of communicating large numbers of prices , especially promotional prices , when this can be done far better by window bills and in-store display : there are few shoppers who analyse every available grocery ad before deciding where to shop . |
| 2 | Siegel said softly , ‘ If that 's the case , let's hope there is something in his life that he would miss too much to let it go so easily … ’ |
| 3 | Once authorisation to carry on a banking business has been granted by the home member state to a bank in accordance with the Community 's essential requirements , the Community legislative approach is to require the host country in which the bank may wish to provide cross-border services or establish a branch to recognise the validity of that authorisation , and to allow it to do so without making additional ‘ authorisation ’ requirements to the bank . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 5 | She was not responsible for him and he was daft to allow it to become so bad . |
| 6 | ‘ We want to see a working countryside and we do n't want to see it fossilised so it 's almost like a theme park . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The club is unique , and we want to see it develop so that it compares with the Queen 's Rugby Club , that is serving as a platform to provide some of the country 's top players . |
| 8 | Roger said : ‘ Having heard so much about TNT while I was in Australia I am pleased to see it working so successfully and in particular I am glad to see a continuation of product supply into the sales organisation as a direct result of TNT principles . ’ |
| 9 | Then I needed to have it refretted so I took it into Joe Satriani 's guitar tech and he said , ‘ Wait a minute — where did you get this ? |
| 10 | It was gon na cost me a hundred and eighty pounds to have it repaired so I thought I might as well |
| 11 | We 'll try to get it fixed so we can pick you up after you make delivery . ’ |
| 12 | By the time we got here and started cooking something it would be rushing to get it eaten so . |
| 13 | Needless to say , it was the part which most of them hated ; they were longing to get it finished so that they could write their essays on Hamlet or Keats . |
| 14 | I 've just put the fiver in the bottle neck and I 'm trying to get it to unfurl so it wo n't drop all the way down , when she groans . |
| 15 | Needless to say it has so far proved difficult to find any sacrificial lambs among the building trade . |
| 16 | From the beginning , indeed , the CNAA had been concerned with the college as a whole , though there were no specific powers in the Charter to oblige it to do so . |
| 17 | To make it do so in company is bizarre . |
| 18 | ‘ It is n't easy , any of it , but I tend to make it appear so . |
| 19 | It is n't easy , any of it , but I tend to make it appear so . |
| 20 | It certainly was n't fun any more , and efforts to make it appear so seemed hollow . ’ |
| 21 | Even in rehearsal it requires stamina and dedication to make it appear so smooth . |
| 22 | ‘ It would be damaging to seek to prevent it doing so . ’ |