Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mm , what he 's talking about is the old covenant was to do with the mountain was n't it ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At first , much building was done on the cheap . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Penguin 's chairman Trevor Glover , while unconcerned about the poor American turnout , said he doubted that much real business was done at the fair . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Calibration of the measuring system was done before the insertion of the probe into the rectum . |
| 16 | There was no TV centre and the only filming was done in the pub by the local university 's media studies department . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But the original damage was done in the Fifties and it was the product of ignorance and laziness and bloody-mindedness . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |