Example sentences of "done to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , they can be made to break off under a large side load and in so doing , perhaps prevent further damage being done to the fuselage . |
| 2 | Anyone capable of sight-leading a route protected by bolts without clipping them has the right to remove them ( a regular bolt hole closed by a rock dust/epoxy mix is virtually undetectable , and no meaningful harm will have been done to the crag environment ) . |
| 3 | Thus Richard Dyer has argued of gay machismo that , by taking the traditional signs of masculinity and ‘ eroticising them in a blatantly homosexual context , much mischief is done to the security with which ‘ men' ’ are defined in society , and by which their power is secured' ( ‘ Getting Over the Rainbow ’ , 61 ) . |
| 4 | The main problem when using crimps is you ca n't actually see whether any damage has been done to the main line when the pressure is applied to the crimp . |
| 5 | If this process is done with a proper crimping tool there is very little chance of serious damage , although in this case it seemed by the damage done to the line that a normal pair of pliers had been used . |
| 6 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 7 | Jackson Pollock was driven by a despair which was partly his and partly that of the culture which nourished him , to refuse this act of faith : to insist , with all his brilliance as a painter , that there was nothing behind , that there was only that which was done to the canvas on the side facing us . |
| 8 | Recently , however , it has been given added emphasis and urgency by the growing appreciation that the damage being done to the environment by the use of fossil fuels may require drastic restrictions on their use . |
| 9 | One demand is for compensation for damage done to the land by open-cast mining . |
| 10 | The problem is often not just whether it is genuine or fake , but rather how much is original , and what has subsequently been done to the object , when , by whom and why . |
| 11 | When it reported the result of the second engagement , it used a word which the Philistines in their terror had applied to what God had done to the Egyptians . |
| 12 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 13 | Acre for acre the sea is more productive than the land , despite the damage human greed has done to the herring fishery , and threatens to do to the stock of mackerel as well . |
| 14 | At the very least it would ensure that no further harm is done to the child and at best , that his wellbeing was enhanced in every possible way ( p. 45 ) . |
| 15 | Similarly , little justice has been done to the CSW approach in the study , though a prospective approach is likely to yield more comparable data . |
| 16 | After intoning the usual statements about the harm done to the nation 's security , the judge sentenced Blake to a total of 42 years ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | Also , can you give me any information on what , if anything , can be done to the standard gearbox other than fitting overdrive to improve its performance . |
| 18 | The National Trust is currently undertaking a structural survey which will reveal the full scale of the damage , but it is already known that extensive harm has been done to the brickwork , windows and terrace . |
| 19 | The Emperor , who incidentally had wanted to pardon Orsini and his accomplice , only yielding to his ministers ' demand for execution when they pointed out that innocent people had been killed , tried to repair the damage done to the Entente . |
| 20 | Russian colonization , cities and railways cut up the great grazing lands of the nomadic peoples as violently as American settlers had done to the Amerindians in the United States . |
| 21 | Considerable restoration has been done to the property recently . |
| 22 | For the rest of the day there were almost continuous air attacks , but as dusk crept over the scene it was discovered that no damage had been done to the LRDG patrol . |
| 23 | In place of Aristotle 's association of time with motion and his appeal to the uniform daily revolution of the heavens as its basis , St Augustine turned , not as Plotinus had done to the concept of the ‘ world-soul ’ , but to the human mind for the ultimate source and standard of time . |
| 24 | The driver and guard were compelled to dress in smocks and straw hats , but the unusual feature was short-lived because of the damage done to the thatch by the wind and rain . |
| 25 | During the Second World War considerable damage was done to the docks by enemy action , and they have now been restored as part of the World Trade Centre , with the dock as a yachting harbour and the surviving warehouses used as trading floors with shops beneath , an imaginative example of redevelopment combined with conservation . |
| 26 | Many parents feel , too , that if they do n't intervene , hurt and/or an injustice will be done to the younger and/or weaker child . |
| 27 | As a result , in each instance , the harm that might have been done to the environment was at least delayed or controlled . |
| 28 | Michael was taken by ambulance from the place where the surgery was done to the Christie cancer hospital . |
| 29 | This may be true for the nuclear industry and for the utility that owns the Three Mile Island ( TMI ) power station , but in terms of the physical harm done to the public , the TMI accident proved to be virtually a non-event . |
| 30 | We all know , and indeed can see with our own eyes , the damage that has been done to the countryside in pursuit of production . |