Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] done [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know if I get into trouble again I 'll be done for the arson charge and breach of probation , and that means a few years in jail and I could n't handle it . |
| 2 | The argument that would draw a sharp line between quantification of litigation costs which may be done by taxation , on the one hand , and quantification of non-litigation costs , which must be done by the Chancery master taking the account without the assistance of a taxing master , on the other hand , is , in our judgment , misconceived . |
| 3 | Similarly in ( 19 ) the conditional would signifies that not building is being envisaged as a hypothesis , as something which might be done in the future , but which is unadvisable in the eyes of the speaker . |
| 4 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 5 | However , these blades do increase the damage which can be done to the model when you get it wrong . |
| 6 | In a pre-industrial society women may have important occupations in handicrafts or in garden agriculture , jobs which can be done in the home . |
| 7 | The Interim Committee reached the decision on 26 February 1948 that UNTCOK should adhere to the original intention in so far as this could be accomplished ; elections would be supervised in the south but nothing could be done about the north . |
| 8 | Fire sub-officer Paul , 33 , knew nothing could be done for the car couple , but he realised the lorryman had not got out . |
| 9 | When Telford Development Corporation began to coppice the woodland for conservation purposes , a group of countryside wardens , foresters and a lecturer in 3D-design got together and decided that something should be done with the waste timber . |
| 10 | FINANCIER George Soros 's £35 million donation to Bosnian aid agencies was generous but surely something should be done about the crazy money markets that allowed him to make so much money so quickly . |
| 11 | Will the Minister confirm that it is now five years since the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized , with tremendous loss of life , and two years since the committee for the research programme into the safety of roll on/roll off ferries said that something should be done about the safety of existing ferries — those built before 1990 ? |
| 12 | Before peace can come about , something must be done about the Emperor . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Something must be done about the Emperor . |
| 14 | ‘ Everything should be done at the double ’ , he explained , and ‘ there should be a maximum of hard work and a minimum of amusement . ’ |
| 15 | Boiotian history from 479 till the First Peloponnesian War of 460–446 is not recoverable , though something can be done with the coins . |
| 16 | The cost of warships is unknown , but something can be done with the byrnies which every eight hides were ordered to provide in the same year . |
| 17 | er Graham seems to think they 're hinting that they should be done on the same day |
| 18 | In Catholic and High Anglican circles it may be done on the basis of weekly attendance at Mass . |
| 19 | ‘ It should be done on the basis of the right of non-smokers to breathe smoke-free air , but wherever possible taking account of the needs of those who smoke . ’ |
| 20 | We 're both very pleased to have got the bollards and feel confident it should be done before the end of the year . ’ |
| 21 | Weir quickly got wind of the plan to remove him and discussed the matter with the bailie , James Graham , and the latter had to agree that there was no blame which could be attached to Weir 's conduct beyond his recent irregular attendance , but it was hardly possible for a court to function without a prosecutor , and although Weir was going to have to go , James Graham insisted that ‘ it should be done in the most decent manner and almost with his own consent ’ . |
| 22 | That 's why it should be done in the |
| 23 | It must be done at the time . |
| 24 | A shepherd can never be sure at what hour he 'll be done for the day , but the priest 's man leaves Upton as soon as Vespers is over , and so he did this time . |
| 25 | The way that this has been done in the past is the subject of the next chapter ; the way that it might be done in the future is the justification for this book . |
| 26 | It could be done on the job using a National Council assessor . |
| 27 | Whether it could be done with the thought-bubble … |
| 28 | The Liberal Democrats would make education up to 18 compulsory although much of it could be done in the workplace rather than just in schools and colleges . |
| 29 | It would be done at the Stanford synchrotron Radiation Laboratory ( SSRL ) which is fed by electron beams from one of SLAC 's two storage rings . |
| 30 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |