Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] done [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem here is not so much to prevent partners leaving before reaching retirement age ( any such general prohibition would be unrealistically restrictive in all but a few firms ) as to ensure that as little damage is done to the firm as possible when they do . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is worth stressing that all of this teaching is done by the prisoners themselves rather than by prison officers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | On April 18 the Congress voted by 664 to 139 ( with 72 abstentions ) to approve this resolution , which also recommended that further work be done on the document , and that it be published to widen debate and be resubmitted to the next Congress . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Because all this electronic processing is done at the same time , the original speech signal is fed to all the circuits , the analysis is almost instantaneous . |
| 10 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 11 | However , it is important for us to remember that we still do n't really understand how this recoding is done by the brain . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At first , much building was done on the cheap . |
| 14 | The sexual act does violate the child , but the real damage is done to the psyche , wherein lies the trauma — the memory , the damage to self esteem . |
| 15 | Harm , and serious harm is done to the memory of Pope John when one attributes to him attitudes he did not have . |
| 16 | Note that the function of the object-glass is to collect the light , and all the actual magnification is done by the eyepiece . |
| 17 | But the Sunday Times seems to be looking for a figurehead for the post , with real work being done in the back room , by the likes of Harry Ritchie , Walsh 's deputy , who in the view of many in the book business would make an excellent lit ed for the paper . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Penguin 's chairman Trevor Glover , while unconcerned about the poor American turnout , said he doubted that much real business was done at the fair . |
| 20 | There has been a lot lately in the Press and on TV about crime and violence and it is sad to see so much wrong being done by the very young of today . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | By 1952 the contacts Ramsey had made in the US led to her being awarded a Smith-Mundt scholarship and she toured the country speaking as an authority on what was then pioneering work being done in the UK . |
| 23 | It may also be that the agent would be asked to advise on the cost , and , as with civil legislation , costs in parliamentary matters can in appropriate cases be taxed under the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act , 1847 , and the 1849 Act on similar lines for the House of Lords , the only difference in Scotland being that taxation is done by the Auditor of the Court of Session . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There is no sense here of any engagement with the writer on what the script should be like , nor does Hepworth anticipate substantial work being done on the text after his initial moments of introspection . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There is an increasing amount of empirical work being done on the allocation of resources within marriage ; in this country Jan Pahl ( 1980 , 1983 ) and Anne Gray ( 1979 ) have concentrated particularly on the distribution of household income between marriage partners . |
| 28 | There is no space to tell you of the depth of fellowship I am experiencing , of the great joy I have in teaching such folk , of all I am learning from these believers who have suffered so much , of the hardening opposition by the Orthodox Church , of the great work being done by the Baptists among Bulgarian orphans and of the plans for an orphanage , school and seminary . |
| 29 | It is often said that more damage is done inside the hangar than out ! |
| 30 | 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 . |