Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] do [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these can be confirmed and if the tappings were done with the authority of a Home Office warrant , it suggests that the guidelines were being interpreted with a remarkable degree of latitude . |
| 2 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 3 | In the larger provincial firm ( D ) the research was done with the probate partner . |
| 4 | Professor Hurstfield has argued that they were not , and that , provided no harm was done to the state , it would be anachronistic for the historian to object to them . |
| 5 | The court has been today hearing evidence from witnesses building up a picture of what the who defendants were doing in the hours before the alleged abduction of James Bolger . |
| 6 | All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks . |
| 7 | A lot of work was done to the bridge in the years 1648–50 and an inscription on it states that it was ‘ built ’ in 1650 . |
| 8 | That work was done on the nickels of a string of major investors led by IBM Corp , which is thought to have lost between $100m and $200m on the failed venture — but Chen 's announcement that his new company , Supercomputers International Inc , will draw on work done by the failed one raises the question of who owns that work . |
| 9 | What work was done in the United Kingdom on raiding and amphibious operations had been mainly carried out by the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( ISTDC ) and the Royal Marines ' Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation ( MNBDO ) , the Royal Navy being responsible for amphibious operations . |
| 10 | Only when the inevitable standing ovation was over , and their work was done in the conference hall , could they relax . |
| 11 | The probability is that a large part , even most , of the work was done in the madhouse , and that Smart finished it after his release . |
| 12 | Most of the work was done by the slaves who , provided they did not try to escape , were often reasonably treated although their quarters were cramped and poorly finished . |
| 13 | In the early days there was , he felt , a ‘ gentleman 's club ’ atmosphere about the CNAA , and the main work was done by the boards — with no real role for the higher level committees . |
| 14 | The White Paper promised that information would be gathered to help implement demand management , but no work was done until the autumn of 1945 . |
| 15 | Until an audit was done at the unit we did n't realise quite how much , but we do require donations for us to be here . |
| 16 | Most turnpiking was done on the north to south roads , although some cross-country in-filling occurred later ; they were less new roads than improvements on old ones , designed particularly to ease the movements of goods and the aristocracy to their country estates . |
| 17 | The BMC re-emerged from its lean years , got a grant and important : it wanted control of the wicked things the MLTB was doing to the ethics of mountaineering . |
| 18 | This statement by Lord Roskill , with whom all their Lordships agreed , was probably an obiter dictum since there was no doubt in that case that the act was done without the consent of the owner . |
| 19 | He was not looking at what the girl was doing with the match . |
| 20 | As testing was done on the basis of parental choice these infants would not be screened . |
| 21 | A check was done on the pH and a proprietary acid buffer was added to bring it down to 6.5 Softening resin was added in a box filter to bring down the hardness to 8°DGH . |
| 22 | There was no fairness on earth if someone who would appreciate it and work hard was kept out just because of a greedy , uncaring family who would prefer to forget the child of an unsuitable union rather than make a generous gesture and ensure that some right was done at the end of the day . |
| 23 | All the interviewing was done by the author and was an informal discussion rather than formal questioning . |
| 24 | ‘ And what his idea was , in a way I suppose , was just to see the position which I had to get the horse into before he had the job with the mare ; and he wondered how the job was done with the harness I 'd got on . |
| 25 | Morse interrupted Lewis 's thoughts : ‘ Shall I tell you exactly what our leader was doing in the betting-shop ? |
| 26 | Scottish Members raised in the House the problems faced by Scotland and clearly indentified the terrible damage that the poll tax was doing to the people of Scotland , but the Government continued to blunder on in their merry way . |
| 27 | For the first time , ICL generated some £1,000m of its revenues in Europe — and more than 50% of its business was done outside the UK — partially as a result of its Nokia Data Systems acquisition . |
| 28 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
| 29 | Gohar Kordy writes : ‘ What would have been the work of psychotherapy in the West for years was done by the family in these 40 days ’ . |
| 30 | For example , an investigation was done into the profitability of a certain product which was common to several divisions . |