Example sentences of "which do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now there 's another way of doing it , which done well is more powerful . |
| 2 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 3 | Similarly , if you take out a foreign currency mortgage where sterling is exchanged for foreign currency at the time of the purchase , and you subsequently want to repay the mortgage — you then have to pay over sterling to secure foreign currency with which to do so . |
| 4 | They have two more matches in which to do so . |
| 5 | He not only informed on fellow-members of the Communist Party in 1934–6 and requested a public session in which to do so ‘ because secrecy serves the Communist cause ’ ; he took a display advertisement in the New York Times to justify himself . |
| 6 | However , it was obvious that if they wished to attack moored shipping , they had to find suitable boats from which to do so . |
| 7 | If selection tried to choose DNA molecules directly it would hardly find any criterion by which to do so . |
| 8 | As a result of that I 'm learning more now than I ever have , even though I have less time in which to do so . ’ |
| 9 | He used to try and learn other players ' licks from the radio and this process was hampered by the fact that he only had one pass in which to do so . |
| 10 | At the moment , we do not have the resources , knowledge or understanding with which to do so . |
| 11 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
| 12 | They have only one tool with which to do so , their beak , but this can be surprisingly effective . |
| 13 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 14 | They only have seven minutes in which to do so . |
| 15 | We need to challenge ourselves , to move ourselves on , but we need to give ourselves a safe framework in which to do so . |
| 16 | It was Aunt Bessie 's death , coupled with another event , which did finally bring Mother and Father together permanently . |
| 17 | The CEGB could rely on the Treasury to oppose the expenditure to reduce pollution which did most damage in remote Welsh hills , Scottish lochs and other countries . |
| 18 | It was these wars , unsurprisingly , which did most to give life to the ideal of unity . |
| 19 | Nevertheless it was the British navy which pioneered the two inventions which did most to increase the efficiency of eighteenth-century men-of-war . |
| 20 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 21 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
| 22 | I love the very dark flowered ‘ Black Magic ’ , which did well for me last summer in a tub placed outside in a sunny , sheltered spot . |
| 23 | Eileen Goudge Such Devoted Sisters ( Signet ) Author of Garden of Lies ( which did well ) with a big glitzy read . |
| 24 | Some composers , therefore , set up their own publishing enterprises which did well for some years , especially during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Britain in 1982 . |
| 25 | Everywhere the city rang to cries of Viva Verdi , a call which did neither the composer nor the opera house any harm at all . |
| 26 | From such ideas he formed dances which did away with pointes but retained much of the classical footwork which he co-ordinated with the less familiar action of the arms and hands . |
| 27 | So the management looked at the , the thing very critically and they , they designed a new stabilizer erm which did away with the whole housing , which did away with the cross er crossheads and the slides and it was so easily produced er that we were then seeking to , to sales representatives to go out and look for other work . |
| 28 | So the management looked at the , the thing very critically and they , they designed a new stabilizer erm which did away with the whole housing , which did away with the cross er crossheads and the slides and it was so easily produced er that we were then seeking to , to sales representatives to go out and look for other work . |
| 29 | One recent study by Williams described the weeding of 20,000 volumes from a college of higher education , which did apparently result in , a substantial rise in issues . |
| 30 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |