Example sentences of "do so [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the House of Commons had done so in relation to the allegedly offending provision under review in Pickin 's case , would the provision nevertheless have remained valid ? |
| 2 | While States may by treaty opt out of a rule of customary international law inter se , they can not do so with respect to a third party which is entitled to have its customary rights observed . |
| 3 | erm in education I am confident that erm schools and colleges will operate their delegated budgets very successfully and erm I think they will do so without detriment to the Education Service . |
| 4 | While progressive Labour councils declared their intentions to address the expectations of women , of black people and disabled people , it was by no means clear that they would do so in relation to lesbians and gays . |
| 5 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 6 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 7 | To do so at risk to you or Norman would give me no happiness , dearest . |
| 8 | Those appointed to the senior status of High Court judge will have acted as Recorders and will often have sat as Deputy High Court judges , having been invited to do so from time to time . |
| 9 | Although there is almost complete freedom of trade , many traders choose not to do so in response to the prevailing wishes of their local communities . |
| 10 | The Special Commissioners had exclusive jurisdiction to determine the appeals , and to do so in relation to the facts as found before them . |
| 11 | When older people think of the past they are not just taking stock of their lives but trying to decide what to do with the time that they have left , and trying to do so in relation to concluding or making sense of what has gone before . |
| 12 | For instance , someone who expresses her opinion of a friend 's appearance very vaguely may be suspected of doing so in order to be polite ( saving others ' face is a common motive for vagueness , untruthfulness and withholding information ) . |
| 13 | As there was no rail link between Scotland and England , almost everyone travelling from south of the border did so by train to Liverpool and boat from there to Ardrossan . |
| 14 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 15 | In a developed legal system the rules of recognition are of course more complex ; instead of identifying rules exclusively by reference to a text or list they do so by reference to some general characteristic possessed by the primary rules . |