Example sentences of "[be] done by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal would have been done by now but for Venables 's reservations about playing two penalty-area sniffers together without an orthodox No. 9 to provide an aerial target . |
| 2 | In part Marx say this task as paralleling what had been done by Darwin for biological evolution . |
| 3 | Curators feel that much harm has been done by the museum 's failure to articulate two indisputable facts . |
| 4 | That has been done by turning a division into a wholly owned subsidiary limited company with its own board of directors and separate accounts . |
| 5 | In Rutland the jurors swore on 25 July that a great part of the county had been afforested by Henry II , though there is evidence that this had been done by Henry I. Subsequent returns for Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Somerset also demanded extensive disafforestments . |
| 6 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 7 | Despite its large size , techniques for the genetic engineering of the AcMNPV genome are relatively straightforward and many studies on gene function have been done by using deletion and insertion mutants . |
| 8 | ‘ From the information submitted by the United Kingdom , the Commission is of the opinion that little had been done by way of systematic work on the problem of lead in drinking water in Scotland between the adoption of the Directive and 20 July 1985 . |
| 9 | It is worth pointing out that more work had been done by the pathfinders than many people realize . |
| 10 | It is possible that the experiment had been done by an American embryologist many years earlier but its significance was overlooked . |
| 11 | The best known work has been done by Kantor , who estimates that in large academic lending libraries the probability that specific works will be found when needed is 0.57 ( 0.66 in a reference library ) . |
| 12 | In the face of criticism from the other judges of Angell and Pownall for overstepping their instructions , Burn thought that because ‘ of their experience and their minute examination of the plans , which was far more minute than could have been done by the judges ’ , it would be helpful to have their placings . |
| 13 | Most of the former work has been done by librarians and not unnaturally the instruction has been primarily biased towards library skills per se . |
| 14 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 15 | Most of this research so far has been done by private companies ( mostly American ) . |
| 16 | Little has been done by countries to implement the code and industry 's feathers remain ruffled . |
| 17 | This may have been done by the surveyor to protect the building society or bank . |
| 18 | If you 've ever bought a leather product with gold writing on it saying ‘ real leather ’ or ‘ a present from Bognor ’ , and the writing has come off on your fingers it 's been done by ‘ cold foil ’ printing . |
| 19 | A great deal of fascinating research in this area has been done by Dr Ian Stevenson , one of the most eminent and respected workers in this field . |
| 20 | Up until that time much of the work in steel-making had been done by individuals or groups of steel-making master craftsmen on a jobbing or sub-contracting basis . |
| 21 | He undermined all the work that had been done by Mr M with the W family . |
| 22 | Embarrassed by his lack of courage , he wandered forlornly about the town , finding in an old church a copy of Titian 's ‘ Burial of Christ ’ that might have been done by Breton . |
| 23 | Work of a manipulative kind has also been done by using classes of learners as subject , but it is not the teacher , in her normal teaching role , who conducts the enquiry in these cases . |
| 24 | The September issue of Catholic Voice , our diocesan newspaper , carried an insert — four pages giving an overview of the diocese — what has been done by many people — clergy and laity — during recent years — what should be developed or initiated , together with a general account of the financial position . |
| 25 | A lot of hard work has been done by the members to raise money and gain support . |
| 26 | Could not the job have been done by a doctor , a surgeon and one attendant ? |
| 27 | This has been done by ensuring easy access to the market for new firms , by a consideration of anti-competitive practices and by investigating some mergers , thereby preventing the emergence of monopolies . |
| 28 | The first published tensile tests seem to have been done by the French philosopher and musician Marin Mersenne ( 1588–1648 ) who was interested in the strength of the wires used in musical instruments . |
| 29 | Although Mr Lamont announced that he has met his target of limiting spending to £244.5 billion this has been done by plundering Pounds 4 billion from the Government reserves and extra borrowing . |
| 30 | And it 's all been done by getting the ball down on the floor . |