Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [was/were] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These things were done without the knowledge of parents , needless to say . |
| 6 | All experiments were done with the crystal at room temperature . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most of the stately saloon 's 74,000 miles were done before the Second World War . |
| 9 | 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 . |