Example sentences of "do by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curiosity of Sainte-Croix , however , is a small dome over the crossing ( inside the tambour that is ) , the ribs of whose vaulting are interwoven to make an eight-pointed star pattern ; this unusual work was done by Spanish stonemasons in the thirteenth century , on the model of the Great Mosque at Córdoba . |
| 2 | The alternative of deciding not to get involved in any but the most obvious and serious cases means that an enormous amount of damage can be done by each and every suffering individual both to himself or herself and to the Company while he or she progresses inexorably towards becoming a " serious case " . |
| 3 | I have given thanks for the brave and selfless work done by many British men and women who face dangerous circumstances every day . |
| 4 | The September issue of Catholic Voice , our diocesan newspaper , carried an insert — four pages giving an overview of the diocese — what has been done by many people — clergy and laity — during recent years — what should be developed or initiated , together with a general account of the financial position . |
| 5 | Will the capture and storage of the OED be done by existing or bespoke software ? |
| 6 | ‘ If there 's a protected species of plant at the top of relatively new routes which happen to be of good quality , then we 've got a really complex problem to manage , ’ Bill Wright commented , ‘ but if it 's just cotton grass , then the damage done by agricultural pesticides is probably much greater . ’ |
| 7 | Another central element in Braverman 's thesis is that management , in order to achieve their objective of tight control over labour , not only fragment jobs horizontally — in the sense that different physical elements of the same task are split off from each other to be done by separate individuals — but fragment jobs vertically , as well . |
| 8 | There are four full-time Research Officers and the rest of the work is done by 13 research assistants , some of whom are part-time and most of whom are studying for PhDs . |
| 9 | Chemical thermodynamics focuses on energy transfer during chemical reactions and on the work done by chemical systems . |
| 10 | Exercises : students decide if statements about the passage are true or false ; in small groups , they list , discuss , and tell each other what the woman will be doing tomorrow , and what she will have done by 5.30 ; they then discuss the woman 's feelings and decide what advice they would give her . |
| 11 | Yes but what you saw er in that clip just now , erm would n't have been done by cruel methods , I can assure you of that . |
| 12 | We 're usually done by five , you know , so there 's |
| 13 | The difficulty with so many problems in materials science has been that the algebra and arithmetic , though theoretically soluble , are too laborious to be done by traditional methods . |
| 14 | Better in many cases to stick the photographs in at the printing stage and have them done by traditional methods . |
| 15 | This may be done by grazing calves on new grass leys , although it is doubtful if this should be recommended for replacement dairy heifers , as it would result in a pool of susceptible adult animals . |
| 16 | But if those forms of capital are n't available then the business has to raise capital by some other means and this is very often done by liquidated assets that they currently hold and releasing the capital for the new project . |
| 17 | Therefore , much more work needs to be done by economic and social historians in these fields before any conclusions can be drawn . |
| 18 | It will be emphasised to employers that the purpose of the exercise is to provide opportunities for young people to learn about and through work and not to perform tasks which would otherwise be done by paid workers . |
| 19 | Providing that the construction logic is understood , this can be done by preserving work sequences in activities |
| 20 | This is generally done by mechanical means , crushing solid plastics and using the residue to make other items . |
| 21 | Alternatively this can be done by decimal subdivision . |
| 22 | The huts provide water and toilets , and cooking is done by bottled gas which is flown in by helicopter ; there 's no electricity , of course . |
| 23 | The extreme nature of the damage seen in the diurnal raptors is matched to a considerable degree in some of the owls , and both approach the degree of damage done by mammalian carnivores ( Fig. 3.4 ) , which have the added advantage of crushing teeth by which they break up their prey before ingestion ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | It is not simply a matter of the harm done by passive smoking but it is an accepted fact that the children of smokers are far more likely to adopt the habit themselves . |
| 25 | A dominant preoccupation in the sociology of policing is the description and analysis of the routine , day-to-day police work done by low-ranking policemen and women . |
| 26 | The analysis of cell cycle activity was done by EASY 2 computer programme . |
| 27 | It is certainly not the intention of the black community to undermine the good work being done by current transracial adopters and foster-parents , who have opened their homes to black children . |
| 28 | Most rape is done by individual men , not gangs , and by a man to a woman he knows , not a total stranger ; most rape does not involve weapons and is intra-not inter-racial , in that black men usually rape black women and white men rape white women , while rape across racial groups is unusual . |
| 29 | Alternatively , it can be done by individual companies and by retailers . |
| 30 | This is the relatively cheerful theory , because the damage done by unkind history can be made good when history turns kind again . |