Example sentences of "we do so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is far better to like and admire something that is wrong , or to like and admire for the wrong reason , provided we do so sincerely , than to follow slavishly the dictates or ideas of some other person . |
| 2 | But do n't we also know , if only in our dreams , that even as we do so we will one day just as surely tall down it ? |
| 3 | The same disagreement has emerged more recently in the context of human language acquisition , in the debate between those who , like Noam Chomsky , suppose that human beings have an innate capacity to acquire language , and the behaviourists , who argue that language acquisition can be explained in the same way as most other behaviour , by operant conditioning : we learn to speak grammatically because we receive reinforcement when we do so . |
| 4 | But once we do so , once we see that by calling God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not banishing Him to some distant celestial isle from which to look down on us , then it becomes easier and not harder to understand His presence . |
| 5 | if we demand freedom of secession for the Mongolians , Persians , Egyptians and all other oppressed and unequal nations without exception , we do so not because we favour secession , but only because we stand for free , voluntary association and merging as distinct from forcible association . |
| 6 | It is the way we do so which counts . |
| 7 | The reason we do so is entirely based on our perception of what older people should and should not be allowed to do for themselves — at their age . |
| 8 | And if we do so we might call ourselves a nomadic and pastoral people of the transcendent ; and we shall be able to pasture our thoughts like the flocks of the nomads . |
| 9 | As long as we do so , we 're ‘ credit users ’ : it is only when we fail that we become ‘ debtors ’ . |
| 10 | But at another level it is imperative that we do so because it is here that policy , theory and practice intersect . |
| 11 | Until we do so , we are unlikely to recover our energy and self-confidence . |
| 12 | And until we do so , fresh shoots of the same philosophy will continually arise from its underground roots . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes we have to watch what we say when we go home because we do so many interesting things now that it would seem like we were boasting . |
| 14 | We move on now to aspects of teaching of more particular concern to the language teacher , but as we do so we should not lose sight of the more general educational context . |
| 15 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 16 | Before we do so however it is important to be clear about the meaning of certain terms . |
| 17 | He said yesterday : ‘ The situation is difficult … and we 're going to have to tread very carefully about how we proceed , and it 's important that we do so with all the information that we can possibly have . ’ |
| 18 | We do so in confidence that you will be truly impressed . |
| 19 | But though we might have to plough through the politics and suffer with Dennis as we do so , the book still ultimately gets the accept right and takes us out promiscuously to Korea and the Cape , Russia , America , Israel and Morocco . |
| 20 | We might even wish to speak of animal intention , but if we do so it will be in terms of its ‘ natural ’ expression : ‘ What is the natural expression of an intention ? — Look at a cat when it stalks a bird ; or a beast when it wants to escape ’ ( PI 647 ) . |
| 21 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 22 | We do so without embarrassment , since the mainstream theories are still flourishing and occupy the bulk of the current International Relations literature . |
| 23 | As long as we do so , we 're ‘ credit users ’ : it is only when we fail that we become ‘ debtors ’ . |
| 24 | As we do so an alternative approach will be offered which seems closer to communication in everyday situations . |
| 25 | When we do so , we find that few of the ancient creation stories share more than one or two basic concepts — such as the separation of heaven and earth , and the creation of man from clay . |
| 26 | Kim , 1971 ) If we set out to frame hypotheses about the chosen part of consciousness , we do so at our peril , flying in the dark . |
| 27 | We need to go on further still but before we do so a little breather for taking stock would seem appropriate . |
| 28 | We now give a variant of the method of 2.9.3 ; we do so partly because the variant can save computer time , especially if may iterations are required , but also because it enables us simply to bring out certain features of the method , which lead to possible modifications . |
| 29 | Yet before we do so , it would be as well to see just how far formal , purely linguistic rules can go in accounting for the way one sentence succeeds another . |
| 30 | When we talk about it ( now all too common in public ) , we do so as though it had set fast , even for a moment , in some way . |