Example sentences of "[to-vb] so [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mere fact that it was convenient to do so through a story of a murder and the murderer 's subsequent feelings and actions had nothing essential to contribute . |
| 2 | There were times when he felt cut off by some imponderable barrier ; the usual sights and sounds reached him but they seemed to do so through a screen of interference , like a badly tuned radio . |
| 3 | ‘ If it is necessary to convey a message , I would ask you to do so through a messenger . |
| 4 | But chance played an important part in this , placing Norah Brunt in the right place at the right time — she was asked to take over a retiring teacher 's movement class but refused to do so without a qualification . |
| 5 | Americans who do n't take out their frustrations with a gun tend to do so with a lawsuit . |
| 6 | There may be some pleasures for which it is worth risking one 's life but to do so for a cigarette is an illustration of the sheer insanity of addictive disease . |
| 7 | When joining an Airway try to do so on a track as close as possible to 90° to the centre line . |
| 8 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 9 | Many were reportedly angered by the Amir 's decision to restore the National Council despite their request not to do so at a meeting on May 28 between opposition leaders and government ministers . |
| 10 | Would she encourage an increase in the twenty per cent who actually employ specialists for particular subjects er to do so as a priority in religious education where the teacher has no such sympathy . |
| 11 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 12 | If they borrow money , they are much more likely than early school-leavers to do so from a bank . |
| 13 | Theology , like other studies in the broad field of the ‘ humanities ’ or the ‘ liberal arts ’ , has been compelled to face the implications of that challenge , and has sought to do so in a variety of ways . |
| 14 | A wide variety of things could be construed as ‘ approaching ’ violence but to use that expression while condemning the violence of the previous day and to do so in a critique of Paisley while failing to mention the Cromac Square rioters is to exaggerate . |
| 15 | If he was to rule as well as reign he himself had to overthrow Mortimer and Isabella and to do so in a way which would not enhance the power of the magnates . |
| 16 | That Peel , leading the Tory opposition , recognised that the Whigs ' Bill would in the short run unite the middle and lower classes in support of the Government is one thing ; to infer from this that Grey and his team deliberately set out both to counter the threat of revolution and to do so in a way which would ultimately isolate the working class , quite another . |
| 17 | In particular , I will focus on those occasions when executives try to solve problems that are potentially threatening , and they try to do so in a way that communicates caring and respect for the other . |
| 18 | Of course we have to pay the mortgage , but it is important to be able to do so in a way which contributes to international understanding and equips our students with worthwhile and important skills . |
| 19 | The important point to remember is that all the sub-units are needed if the production function is to meet its aim of providing the goods required by its customers , and to do so in a way that meets the profit , growth and other objectives of the organization as a whole . |
| 20 | Even if subjects are deliberately attempting to recall the risky situations it would still be interesting that they are able to do so in a way that makes them distinct from all the other situations encountered . |
| 21 | Pressed to do so in a television interview on Thursday night with Sir Robin Day , Mr Kinnock allowed that he had formed a view , but he was not prepared to disclose it . |
| 22 | If any of you attacks your brother from now on , if not ordered to do so by a superior , that attacker will be enslaved and used for chirurgical experiments in our laboratories for as long as he lives . |
| 23 | A local authority must also investigate when directed to do so by a court in the course of family proceedings ( s37(1) ) . |
| 24 | ( i ) When directed to do so by a court on the discharge of an education supervision order ( Sched 3 , para 17(2) ) . |
| 25 | It shall be the duty of every professor to act as the supervisor of graduate students as and when requested to do so by a faculty board or other competent body , unless he can show reasonable cause , to the satisfaction of that board or other body , why on a particular occasion he should not do so . |
| 26 | In effect , when section 89 applies , the company if it wishes to issue equity shares for cash , has to do so by a rights issue , as described in chapter 13 or a similar process if it is a private company . |
| 27 | In R v General Medical Council , ex parte Colman [ 1990 ] 1 All ER 489 the Court of Appeal on one view appear to have refused to apply the restraint of trade doctrine when asked to do so by a doctor who complained that the General Medical Council ( GMC ) had refused to allow him to advertise . |
| 28 | It shall be the duty of every professor to act as an examiner or assessor as and when requested to do so by a nominating committee or other competent body unless he can show reasonable cause to the satisfaction of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors why on a particular occasion he should not do so . |
| 29 | At first you may have to prize open the jaws gently , but soon the puppy should learn to release the item without hesitation , if encouraged to do so by a display of affection afterwards . |
| 30 | Stopping the scarlet screamer on the apron we set the park brake despite a handbook note not to do so after a sortie , since this only applies to heavy-footed Gauls in hot countries . |