Example sentences of "[vb base] done [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Sales at Dillons and Ryman are marginally ahead , but Pentos Office Furniture and Athena have done badly in the fourth quarter . |
2 | Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions … and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new . |
3 | Arsenal have done well with the former , Liverpool in the past took the latter path with great success . |
4 | Others , like Scottish Equitable , have done away with the initial charge but raised the annual fee . |
5 | With a simple statement we have done away with the whole concept of deafness itself . |
6 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
7 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
8 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
9 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
10 | I have done so with the earnest endeavour to be able to speak to that brief , but I have to start by declaring failure and announcing that the results have been negative . |
11 | Accordingly , where humanities scholars have engaged the computer in text creation and analysis , they have done so in a sophisticated way . |
12 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
13 | The ANC , for its part will continue to work for the unity of our people and we have no doubt that all those who have participated in attempting to solve this problem have done so in the best interests of our struggle . |