Example sentences of "and so [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the particular genius of British politics that the major parties have always managed to hold on to their respective extremists and so to draw their teeth . |
| 2 | Or magically to copy the essence of their being and so to own them within himself ? |
| 3 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 4 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 5 | And so to take what we would describe as a reasonable view on this , we say that if you know from evidence there are a number of concealed households , you should seek to accommodate them . |
| 6 | H. L. A. Hart , who has recently added his voice in support of this kind of analysis , provides the following explanation : ‘ The commander characteristically intends his hearer to take the commander 's will instead of his own as a guide to action and so to take it in place of any deliberation or reasoning of his own : the expression of the commander 's will … is intended to preclude or cut off any independent deliberation by the hearer of the merits pro and con of doing the act . ’ |
| 7 | Normal co-ordinate analysis aims to provide a quantitative analysis of such mixing of local or group modes , and so to improve our understanding of the vibrational motions of a molecule . |
| 8 | What distinguishes visionary leadership is that through words and actions , the leader gets the followers to ‘ see ’ his or her vision — to see a new way to think and act — and so to join their leader in realizing it . |
| 9 | And so to stifle it . |
| 10 | The child who 's been burned learns to fear fire and so to treat it with respect . |
| 11 | As the political assimilative into which were absorbed the opinions , convictions and energies which would otherwise have been available to impel Owenism and so to maximise its chances of attaining its goal , industrial democracy , the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill demands attention . |
| 12 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the company was called upon often without a word of preparation — to treat on a subject with which he was presumed to be familiar , and so to express himself that what he said could be discussed afterwards . |
| 14 | It is not unfair , then , to see the Webbs and the other early Fabians as they seem to have seen themselves : as philosopher-kings concerned to persuade people of sufficient education and standing to see Socialism through Fabian eyes and so to behold its full beauty . |
| 15 | The count of Toulouse was present to answer charges of heresy and so to protect himself and his lands against Simon de Montfort . |
| 16 | It is often tempting to think that some critic you have read can summarise your viewpoint better than you yourself can , and so to end your essay with a quotation from someone else . |
| 17 | Rousseau 's dislike of " sectional associations " sprang from what he saw as the growing tendency for people to identify themselves primarily with these associations and their interests rather than with the community as a whole , and so to forget their duties as citizens . |
| 18 | To clarify the responsibilities of agencies and so to make it easier to hold them to account for their performance . |
| 19 | This project aims to analyse the business and social composition of London at that crucial stage of its development , and so to make it a substantial contribution towards our understanding of the emergence of the modern British state and its economy . |