Example sentences of "[verb] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypnosis may work better outside the laboratory ; we do not know because no one using hypnosis for the police has done properly controlled tests , although one American police hypnotist insists that hypnosis is helpful 90.1 per cent of the time . |
| 2 | I think the work he has done here is incredible really , the West Riding under his care were probably the first Authority to start a collection of pictures to be bought for circulating in the schools . |
| 3 | On my right through the car window I see what money has done here . |
| 4 | That is what , as I read his judgment , the judge has done here . |
| 5 | No I do n't think that 's , sorry , I think it is perfectly possible for Stella to make this assumption to get them changed and to come with the revised version which says , which is apparently what Jenny has done here , this looks to me , in a not unreasonable way , it looks , she is saying something is there , this must be an example of what Stella means , data can be stored in three different ways where clearly previously that said four different ways . |
| 6 | The rise of public concern about the environment has done most to hasten a realisation among Conservatives that Thatcherism has its limitations . |
| 7 | It is a cruel irony that the man who has done most to reform the party and its policies , taking it to within a whisker of power , should be blamed for its failure to make the final leap to power . |
| 8 | Make a Fel test for the character who has done most of the talking . |
| 9 | Even France , the EC country that has done most to block progress on the Uruguay round , now at least seems willing to discuss specifics . |
| 10 | Turtle Island who won at Royal Ascot , Leopardstown and York has done most so far but at this point in time I could n't make up my mind between Turtle Island and my other two big race winners , State Performer and Stonehatch . |
| 11 | Organisers of the Women 's Festival are looking for the woman who has done most for the welfare , health or quality of life of women in the town in the last year . |
| 12 | Aside from his kicking , Ellwood , the player who has done most to transform the Irish season , has shown that he can also break . |
| 13 | Those principles reflect our conviction that Britain has done best when the people of Britain have been given the personal incentive to succeed . |
| 14 | In the separate ‘ new blood ’ scheme , physical sciences has done best , with 66 new posts . |
| 15 | There , by supporting Israel 's occupation of various Arab slivers , America has done neither itself nor Israel a service . |
| 16 | Where the government has done exactly what it said it would do , its policies have worked . |
| 17 | If the Secretary of State regards protecting the British coal industry and , therefore , the nation from the fluctuation in world prices as rigging the market , will he explain why he has done exactly that by rigging the market for nuclear electricity in this country ? |
| 18 | Shakespeare is making the same point as Donne — ‘ Love 's not so pure , and abstract , as they use/To say , which have no mistress but their muse ’ — as he has done obliquely in Venus and Adonis with the picture of the horse exuding desire ( 259–324 ) . |
| 19 | What the hon. Member for Leicestershire , North-West ( Mr. Ashby ) has done tonight , and what other hon. Members on both sides of the House have done , although in this respect principally on the Conservative Benches , is to their credit and to the credit of Parliament . |
| 20 | At Beechgrove we have a well-established standard fuchsia , ‘ Dollar Princess ’ , with cerise sepals and a deep purple corolla , but Bill has done well in training a few new standards this summer and intends to give them early protection this year . |
| 21 | After all , the US has done well by Smurfit in the past . |
| 22 | All in all , he has done well . |
| 23 | He did well for the likes of Cammell Laird and other plant closures , and has done well for the people at Rock Ferry . ’ |
| 24 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 25 | The bottom weight , Polyfemus , has done well since joining Michael Robinson 's stable during the summer and he made all the running when beating Charter Hardware 1 ½ lengths over three miles , three furlongs at Chepstow earlier in the month . |
| 26 | Looked at as a whole , Thailand has done well . |
| 27 | Oscar Orbos has done well as Mrs Aquino 's aide , but at 40 may be too young for the big job . |
| 28 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 29 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 30 | Considering that closure for Deepcar station came as early as 1959 , the lavatory sign has done well to survive . |