Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibilities for disputes of the latter kind of course have increased since this study was done in the 1960s because of rising rates of divorce and remarriage , and we need up-to-date data on how people handle the range of claims of inheritance in families where there is a complex series of step-relationships . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some of the early work in this area was done in the 1970s by Schofield , who used a simple system of asking users to complete a slip of paper for each ‘ failure ’ to locate an item at the shelf . |
| 5 | Mm , what he 's talking about is the old covenant was to do with the mountain was n't it ? |
| 6 | Gel retardation with the distal E2F binding site from the adenovirus E2A promoter ( -71 to -50 region ) and the DP-1 derivatives was done in the absence of salmon sperm DNA ( tracks 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 ) . |
| 7 | All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks . |
| 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 | At first , much building was done on the cheap . |
| 10 | Much work was done in the 1790s at the Royal Naval Hospital , Greenwich , and in 1810 work began on the pediment there , which was forty feet long , designed by Benjamin West [ q.v. ] and Joseph Panzetta , and made in Coade stone . |
| 11 | Penguin 's chairman Trevor Glover , while unconcerned about the poor American turnout , said he doubted that much real business was done at the fair . |
| 12 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 13 | These things were done without the knowledge of parents , needless to say . |
| 14 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
| 15 | Despite this , quite a lot of good work was done by the eighty fourth-year " leavers " ( aged I 4-plus ) who were the trial group for the project . |
| 16 | All experiments were done with the crystal at room temperature . |
| 17 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 18 | So with our legs and bottoms already aching from the lack of space and the hard seats , we read about the party someone had given in Christ Church , or how well so-and-so was doing at the Ministry of Information , or what little Nicolette had said to her grandmother . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After the HN Unit Specifications had been refined by the consultative networks , an initial edit was done by the NDO and scrutiny carried out by the Steering Group or a sub committee of it . |
| 21 | If your camcorder has twin speeds , it might be a good idea to repeat the exercise at the LP speed , assuming the first recording was done at the standard speed . |
| 22 | Calibration of the measuring system was done before the insertion of the probe into the rectum . |
| 23 | There was no TV centre and the only filming was done in the pub by the local university 's media studies department . |
| 24 | Infusions into the transverse colon were performed with the colonscope about 10 cm proximal to the splenic flexure , while those into the sigmoid colon were done with the colonoscope about 10 cm proximal to the rectosigmoid junction . |
| 25 | Most of the stately saloon 's 74,000 miles were done before the Second World War . |
| 26 | It may be you see that the manufacturing flavour of the past two years was to do with the pre er Common Market period getting inside the European Union ring fence with the manufacturing plant and there is speculation as to whether that will now change that the Common Market is now established and that that window of opportunity for manufacturing has tended to recede suggesting that it may be erm administrative er er services service sector that erm these international companies would now want inside the Union . |
| 27 | But the original damage was done in the Fifties and it was the product of ignorance and laziness and bloody-mindedness . |
| 28 | The main damage was done in the first twelve months , when GDP fell by 3 per cent , industrial production by 9 per cent , and unemployment doubled to 2.5 million . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |