Example sentences of "do a similar [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willie Carson will also resting easy after suggestions that he had been wrong to bring about the withdrawal of the red-hot favourite , Superoo , before the start of Ascot 's opening event on Saturday , having done a similar thing with the favourite , Red Paddy , before the Royal Hunt Cup . |
| 2 | ( You can do a similar exercise with similarly startling results on the customer service side by , as they put it , ‘ stapling yourself to a purchase order ’ and watching how many hands it passes through ) . |
| 3 | You did n't do a similar assignment for the inner route north ? |
| 4 | No , but we can do a similar thing . |
| 5 | But let me just deal with labour and plant at the minute and we 'll see , we can do a similar thing . |
| 6 | Now we 're going to do a similar exercise for the ribber . |
| 7 | It also draws attention to the setting-up in Scotland , after the vote on devolution , of the Tertiary Education Council with the responsibility for advising on the whole of the further education sector there , and notes that no comparable body is able to do a similar service for Wales . |
| 8 | They read Drude 's plant geography and decided to do a similar study , but soon found that the European techniques did not work on the almost featureless prairie . |
| 9 | We can approach this question by writing computer programs to do a similar job , or by finding out what is the minimum information we need in order to perceive something . |
| 10 | He would need all his diplomatic skills to do a similar job in South Africa . |
| 11 | Public health in the UK improved with clean water supplies and WaterAid aims to do a similar job abroad . |
| 12 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 13 | Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . " |
| 14 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 15 | So that 's what , that 's the way I 'm hoping that we can proceed , as I say , yes with your assistance and then if we can get through that business , then equally tomorrow morning , we 'll be doing a similar thing , we we 'll issue another revised programme which will er take in some of the outstanding stuff that 's fell off . |
| 16 | So you 're doing a similar job as you were doing in . |
| 17 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 18 | We 're doing a similar sort of thing . |
| 19 | I did an evening ride along some backblocks roads , all gravel , and the next day we all hired bikes and did a similar route . |
| 20 | Leinster did a similar demolition job on Llanelli and lost narrowly to the South-west Division . |
| 21 | I did a similar thing once , although from the less salubrious surroundings of Manchester , so felt an instant rapport . |
| 22 | This would require a great deal of organisation to ensure compatibility of all the units involved , but ICAO did a similar thing many years ago with ILS air and ground equipment and that has been working successfully now for over thirty-five years . |
| 23 | Erm Louise did a similar thing for me , managed to get some one-off letters run off the system . |
| 24 | He did a similar job on the plumbing . |
| 25 | Plaid Cymru , which did a similar deal , was preparing to vote with the Government . |
| 26 | Plaid Cymru , which did a similar deal , voted with the Government , acknowledging that its deal did go further . |
| 27 | Hilton did a similar study in Canada with similar results . |
| 28 | But , as every kite flyer discovers early in the hobby , if you wind onto a static reel over its edge , or do a similar action by winding around a handle , then the line becomes ‘ lively ’ and wraps itself into snarls . |
| 29 | We have now turned almost full circle , but instead of employing someone to bait the swim , we have turned to a choice of mechanical devices which do a similar job . |
| 30 | An external utility that does a similar job to TrueType is , of course , Adobe Type Manager . |