Example sentences of "[conj] do [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PenPad PDA 600 is a hand-held personal organiser that does away with a keyboard and is aimed at the traditional Filofax and electronic organiser markets . |
| 2 | Discrimination can be institutionalized and done procedurally as a matter of course behind the scenes or it can be out in the open with insults to your face , but the result is the same . |
| 3 | If he was to rule as well as reign he himself had to overthrow Mortimer and Isabella and to do so in a way which would not enhance the power of the magnates . |
| 4 | That Peel , leading the Tory opposition , recognised that the Whigs ' Bill would in the short run unite the middle and lower classes in support of the Government is one thing ; to infer from this that Grey and his team deliberately set out both to counter the threat of revolution and to do so in a way which would ultimately isolate the working class , quite another . |
| 5 | The important point to remember is that all the sub-units are needed if the production function is to meet its aim of providing the goods required by its customers , and to do so in a way that meets the profit , growth and other objectives of the organization as a whole . |
| 6 | A wide variety of things could be construed as ‘ approaching ’ violence but to use that expression while condemning the violence of the previous day and to do so in a critique of Paisley while failing to mention the Cromac Square rioters is to exaggerate . |
| 7 | Certainly it was once hoped , particularly after the devastation of the last war , that modern architecture might with the aid of science and technology provide mankind with a wholly satisfying new environment — and do so in a matter of a few decades . |
| 8 | ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’ |
| 9 | Botia macracantha is tolerant of other species , and does best in a shoal of its own kind . |
| 10 | Critical of ideology , it asks what lies behind the consensus , presented as fact , that supports the dominant tradition of the time , and does so with a view to the relations of power surreptitiously incorporated in the symbolic structures of the systems of speech and action . |
| 11 | And it has the secondary virtue that it destroys a prevalent type of sceptical move , and does so in a way that explains the attraction of that move . |
| 12 | The poor boy , who resembles Philip Roth , tells the story in which he takes part , and does so in a manner that can be considered uncontroversial . |
| 13 | There may be some pleasures for which it is worth risking one 's life but to do so for a cigarette is an illustration of the sheer insanity of addictive disease . |
| 14 | It was recognised that what would be most welcomed by policymakers and others was a service that not only helped to keep people out of institutions if that was their wish , but did so in a way that was both acceptable to recipients and less expensive than alternative institutional care . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the system also came under attack as being unfair — hence undermining consent by calling into doubt the legitimacy of both the mode of election and the government produced by it — and for facilitating the adversary relationship between the parties , a relationship that significantly influenced public policy , but did so in a manner harmful to the interests of the country . |