Example sentences of "to do [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York-based Computer Outsourcing Services Inc signed a definitive agreement to acquire that privately-owned provider of payroll processing and services , which the acquirer declines to name , for 150,000 new shares : Computer Outsourcing expects it to do $3m in gross revenues in the first year . |
| 2 | James Serpell compared their ‘ firepower ’ with the complexity of their aggressive displays and found that the better equipped the birds were to do damage to each other , the more complicated and prolonged their displays . |
| 3 | He worries that as a result of all these shortcomings , the net effect of Sun propagating Wabi will be to do damage to the whole Unix business . |
| 4 | Cheney emphasized , however , that no predetermined level of attrition — no " magic trigger " — would activate the ground campaign , and stressed that " the capacity of US air power to do damage to Saddam Hussein 's forces is still crucial " . |
| 5 | Who are genuinely trying to do damage to the party . |
| 6 | ‘ The view that the explanation is to be found in the increasing power of numbers to do damage beyond what one individual can do is open to the obvious answer that this depends on the personality and influence of the individual . |
| 7 | It is this University 's view that selective payments to a minority are more likely to do damage by their divisiveness than to benefit the University by encouraging those who receive them . |
| 8 | Later in his career , when the top of the voice started to disappear , I tried to persuade him to do Wozzeck with me . |
| 9 | I tell you who else was there erm the lady who used to do caretaking for you at school you know , who had a little girl months before Becca was born . |
| 10 | Another night there used to be one , Old Bob , used to do bit of droving . |
| 11 | Oh yes , she was an exception ; but physically she was not exactly … … in any case I had determined never to do Salome with a girl who dances . |
| 12 | Coghill was to do Measure For Measure . |
| 13 | Well I 'll have to do loads of erm |
| 14 | Dave 's cleaner in High Hall used to do loads of stuff for him , she used to wash his mugs up and all sorts of things . |
| 15 | Just to look at it was to do penance for her failures . |
| 16 | He subsequently decided to do penance for the deed , and set off to his foundation at Agaune . |
| 17 | I used to do scripts in the States . |
| 18 | As the clubhouse and first link will be within a mile of the radio station and a quarter of a mile from the borough boundary , the project ought to do good to Henley and , incidentally , raise the value of the land surrounding the course . |
| 19 | In 1935 the League was genuinely popular with the British public because it allowed them to believe , not for the first time , that there was no limit to Britain 's power to do good in the world . |
| 20 | The belief in Britain 's power to do good in the world , which had for so long underpinned popular internationalism , no longer seemed tenable . |
| 21 | But loyalty and prudence will require him to do good by stealth this weekend if he is to restore Britain 's tarnished European image . |
| 22 | But loyalty and prudence will require him to do good by stealth this weekend if he is to restore Britain 's tarnished European image . |
| 23 | It is sometimes thought that rigorism can take adequate account of what seems troubling here by recognizing that if we ask too much of ourselves we damage our power to do good by becoming worn out or embittered . |
| 24 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 25 | The court had to have regard to the ascertainable defect in the mentality of the defendant , and whether it showed a predilection to do harm to others . |
| 26 | I justify myself on the grounds that I do n't indulge in idle gossip and have never sought to aggrandise myself or to do harm to others . |
| 27 | This Owen 's an able prince , no more like than any other prince of Christendom to do harm to a prisoner , or let harm come to him . ’ |
| 28 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 29 | When human and reptile brains get together , they want to do harm from a position of safety . |
| 30 | We also did some more conventional shared riding by borrowing Chris Parkin 's self-built tandem for a week to do trips to New Brighton and along the Summit Road , which winds along the top of the Port Hills giving views over the city in one direction and Lyttleton Harbour in the other . |