Example sentences of "[to-vb] so [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And some of them it 's it 's hard to get them to go so but in general any of the fairly reactive acids and any of the fairly reactive metals they 're going to give you a salt and hydrogen . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 3 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 4 | It will be videoed , to se you 'll make two applications within that small group session and a second will be videoed but only for you to see so that you can take it away and try and learn from er seeing yourself on video . |
| 5 | If they have to shoot to kill so that their children live , they will . |
| 6 | Australia have shown you have to lose so that you can eventually win . |
| 7 | In contrast , an alternative approach is to invest so as to increase production . |
| 8 | It was a reminder of the early days of European seamanship , when captains discouraged their crews from learning how to swim so that they were more likely to sink with their ship than abandon their posts and struggle for shore . |
| 9 | They have high costs which are likely to remain so because of the need continually to upgrade facilities and amenities for spectators to retain Test match status for their grounds . |
| 10 | Once a surface is disinfected it tends to remain so until used . |
| 11 | This is why much of philosophy has been barren for more than 2,000 years and is likely to remain so until philosophers learn to understand the language of information processing . " |
| 12 | In the middle and upper classes at least , children stayed " children " for longer ( it was harder for a child to remain so when it was working at the age of 12 or 13 ) ; girls and young women were more shielded from experience outside the home ; parents were , on the whole , stricter and more repressive . |
| 13 | It is better for both partners to attend so that they can discuss the issue and fully appreciate its implications . |
| 14 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 15 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 16 | In either case the human intervention must be a very high level one based on complex diagnosis and innovative design-type thinking about how best to cope so as to avoid a catastrophe . |
| 17 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 18 | Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily . |
| 19 | If rights are being infringed the Purchaser will need to know so that it can restructure the Business to avoid further infringements . |
| 20 | In fact it is everything a manager needs to know so if you are bucking for promotion you need this disk . |
| 21 | In fact it is everything a manager needs to know so if you are bucking for promotion you need this disk . |
| 22 | He wanted the days to pass so that he could be back at Ravenswood School , safe in the dining-hall and his classroom . |
| 23 | The hound had been given something of Sir Henry 's to smell so that it would pick up his scent and follow him . |
| 24 | Mothers and daughters tend to develop a close grooming association which tends to persist so that these close relatives have about the same rank , the daughter 's being contingent upon that of the mother . |
| 25 | It was important to concentrate so as to be able to discuss the film intelligently with Mark . |
| 26 | A further complication may be that any sideslipping to correct for drift may cause the ASI to under-read so that the speed may have to be judged . |
| 27 | On Monday morning he drove the car to work so that he could show his colleagues the slightly dented bumper . |
| 28 | As a sentencing judge you are always looking for options erm a variety of options to impose so that each individual sentence that you impose on a defendant is tailored to either the rehabilitation or the punishment ends of sentencing . |
| 29 | How odd people were , how unpredictable and curious , how difficult it was to know how to behave so that one pleased oneself and society as well . |
| 30 | She slept badly , often waking to listen so that she would not his going in the morning . |