Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] done [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So a great deal has been done by the Scottish Office . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Curators feel that much harm has been done by the museum 's failure to articulate two indisputable facts . |
| 6 | Since then much research has been done into the basic biology of badgers as well as the epidemiology of TB in badgers and cattle . |
| 7 | Little research has been done into the problems generated by quota sampling since studies over thirty years ago pointed up some major problems ( Moser and Stuart 1953 ; Stephan and McCarthy 1958 ) . |
| 8 | For example , Spears ( 1982 ) states that little research has been done on the cost of rehabilitation of severely eroded hillsides . |
| 9 | Very little research has been done on the literature guides and only one on their use by students , so all we have is speculation . |
| 10 | Despite the Gulfs long history of oil pollution , little research has been done on the long-term impact on marine life there . |
| 11 | No recent research has been done on the subject but my own experience suggests GP racing produces heart and breath rates matching those experienced during prolonged high speed running . |
| 12 | Yet , as Newton ( 1976 , p. 148 ) reminds us , while the ‘ dictatorship of the official ’ thesis has ‘ a certain commonsense plausibility … it has very little empirical evidence to support it … because little research has been done on the subject ’ . |
| 13 | Although religious educators often refer to religion in the lives of children and young people , and recommend that religious education draw on this experience in their teaching , little research has been done in the area . |
| 14 | Over the years particularly prior to the formation of the BCRS considerable research had been done on the BCR and its influence on the area it served . |
| 15 | By the 1970s , the " West Indian language problem " had been probed and discussed by educators and policy makers , but still rather little actual research had been done on the language of the Caribbeans . |
| 16 | Mr Kennedy said that no deal had been done with the Government other than on an understanding that today 's scheduled business should not be knocked out by allowing yesterday 's session to continue beyond lunchtime today . |
| 17 | Much of this work has been done for the larger national and international companies . |
| 18 | Significant amounts of gas may have been generated , and it would be interesting to know whether geochemical work has been done on the gases found in Jurassic reservoirs to see whether any Palaeozoic contributions are present . |
| 19 | Though a certain amount of work has been done on the history of Africa 's media , there is room for research on a far larger scale . |
| 20 | Since then little work has been done on the loco by the small group of owners who like everyone else have been hampered by lack of funds . |
| 21 | Here again , a large amount of work has been done on the analysis of written discourse for students of ESP and EAP ( see , for example , Selinker , Tarone , and Hanzeli 1981 ) , but there is no reason why the same techniques can not be applied more widely to the production and processing of writing of more general interest . |
| 22 | As a second , hypothetical example , suppose that I was keen to make some contribution to human physiology or anatomy , and suppose I noted that very little work has been done on the weight of human earlobes . |
| 23 | All these studies acknowledge that Mills and Boon is a ‘ phenomenon in publishing ’ but little work has been done on the marketing and production side of a phenomenon which claimed a readership of 250 million worldwide during 1984 . |
| 24 | The harmful effects of unemployment on mental and physical health are well established , although much less work has been done on the effectiveness of various interventions . |
| 25 | Tourism and its influence on the environment is clearly of great interest to CPRW , however no recent work has been done on the subject . |
| 26 | Since wage pressure is the main factor impeding the reduction of unemployment much work has been done on the factors affecting this . |
| 27 | Previous research on government-industry relations has concentrated either on rapidly declining industries such as steel or high technology sectors such as microelectronics ; relatively little work has been done on the chemicals industry . |
| 28 | This means that work has been done on the system . |
| 29 | Already much work has been done on the impact of the single market on voluntary organisations . |
| 30 | Although much work has been done in the decades since those words were written , it is still true to say that many texts in printed form do not reflect the contents of the original manuscripts with complete accuracy , although more recent printed transcriptions tend to be reliable , not least because they have usually been scanned by a number of scholars before publication . |