Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can , of course , select staff who are ‘ young-user-friendly ’ , and then try to ensure that they remain so by encouragement . |
| 2 | When signing the protocol on 12 December 1977 , both the UK and the USA declared that they did so on the understanding that the rules in the protocol were ‘ not intended to have any effect on and do not regulate or prohibit the use of nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 3 | At most , third-party states , whether aligned with a superpower or non-aligned , could act as a brake on superpower action , though there is no strong evidence that they did so to much effect in the last 40 years . |
| 4 | For example , over 80% admit to having driven at 40mph in a 30mph zone with about 30% admitting that they do so at least ‘ quite often ’ . |
| 5 | But although the schizoid suicide and the anorexic both deny the reality of death , it seems to me that they do so for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 6 | The three parties comprising the Alliance for Germany ( the CDU , the DSU and Democratic Awakening ) , however , did not join together as one faction despite pressure that they do so from their West German counterparts when they went to Bonn on March 22 for discussions on the formation of a government in East Berlin . |
| 7 | Clearly , then , one answer to our question of how banks create money is that they do so by increasing their lending , provided that they are prepared to accept a change in their portfolio composition . |
| 8 | And they said so at the er at the district council , went up to district and I asked for the support of the district council and er probably John immediately said , you have the full support of the district council for it he says and I 'll ensure that you get support with the result I also received four posters direct from the Edinburgh District Council with John photograph on it and with the caption st stating every old age pensioner should be signing here . |
| 9 | Glenavon , who had won two and lost two of their previous matches , had succeeded in taking control and they did so with a vengeance . |
| 10 | By the late 1980s , the largest organizations were likely to operate most efficiently if they did so at an international level , raising capital internationally and supplying international markets . |
| 11 | If they did so in a consistent way , that would be fine . |
| 12 | However , the world 's preponderance of very poor people want to get richer as quickly as they can and are probably not too concerned if they do so at the expense of the environment . |
| 13 | Over 400 food premises which have failed so far to register with Langbaurgh Council could face heavy fines unless they do so by April 3 . |
| 14 | Price rises : Firms ca n't increase their prices unless they say so in the catalogue or advertisement . |
| 15 | Critics of this or that policy , but particularly some elements of the Press and local politicians , could all have a field day , but they do so on half-truths anyway . |
| 16 | People do give support to their kin but they do so in a way which is patchy , possibly idiosyncratic , and which certainly can not be predicted simply from knowing how they are related to each other . |
| 17 | These issues continue to lurk in social experience today , but they do so in profoundly different ways . |
| 18 | All languages make systematic use of voice pitch to convey meaning , but they do so in different ways for different purposes , the main categories of pitch use being ‘ tone ’ and ‘ intonation ’ . |
| 19 | But they did so with the vehemence of the unsure . |
| 20 | But they did so without Simon , the animal champion . |
| 21 | Certainly Americans and Australians could play sport for more of the year but they did so in a more positive , meritocratic context where success was admired and recognized for its own sake . |
| 22 | Within hours of his departure HQ 5 Corps had acted on his " advice " and had approached Tolbukhin 's HQ about the handing over of the Cossacks , but they did so in a manner which reserved to higher authority the final decision whether or not to hand them over [ KP 93 ] . |
| 23 | They certainly did object to the proposed changes , but they did so in terms of where it is right that the inset boundary should be placed , and as far as I 'm aware there are no references in any objections to the wider question of whether or not the village should be washed-over or be inset . |
| 24 | Spines can restrict the diffusion of Ca 2+ ( ref. 40 ) ; however , whether they do so in LTP is not known . |
| 25 | Whether they did so at Magdalen in the years 1925–1929 there are few alive old enough to remember . |
| 26 | The peers also consulted the judges on occasion and when they did so in 1614 over the long-debated matter of the right of the King to tax through ‘ impositions ’ without Parliamentary approval , Coke took the view that the judges should not be required to give an opinion ‘ on the ground that they were expected in judicial course to speak and judge between the King 's majesty and his people , and likewise between His Highness 's subjects , and in no case to be disputants on any side ’ . |
| 27 | LORD WRIGHT : I think the jury should be directed by the judge that the respondent Association had a legal right to put the person 's name on the stop list , so long as they did so in order to promote the trade interests of the Association and its members and not with intent to injure , and so long as the money , fine or penalty demanded was reasonable and not extortionate . |
| 28 | Some students with pre-RAF flight training can skip a level and go directly to the Tucano , leaping as they do so into a world far distant from general aviation . |