Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] do [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One of the interesting questions that can be asked about the curriculum has to do with the relative power and influence of these various actors in the planning process ; for example , in their study , Boys et al .
2 While purists may look on and dislike what the engineers have done to the looks of the Gooney , it looks as through this surgery may help keep the old girl flying commercially well towards the type 's centenary !
3 8.38 to 8.40 ) , that , should ( as the Act has done by the previous section ) the currency of a licence be extended to three years , it was desirable that a licensing board should have some form of sanction against the licence-holder where the premises were being misconducted , or where their suitability had deteriorated , and that such a sanction should be the power to suspend a licence .
4 What do you think the war has done to the possibility of a kind of a global settlement in the Middle East , particularly as far the Israelis are concerned ?
5 They ate frugally : they had learned in the war to make do with the plain , avoid waste , make things go round .
6 Sometimes the difference has to do with the length and scope of the course : Open University pass degrees require six credits , while an honours degree requires eight .
7 ‘ Dreadful , ’ said Snodgrass , shuddering , but Floy said , ‘ It is only what the Gruagach have done to the Trees . ’
8 I did n't make any enquiries about how the laundry got done until the day I ran out of clean tights .
9 Looking at the world , and in particular Europe , today it is hard to see how anything the CIA has done in the past 40 years has significantly affected the map of freedom .
10 Yes , what 's the library got to do with the cinema ?
11 It may not be immediately obvious what theories of the atonement have to do with the Great Battle in the modern world .
12 Groundcrew were emotional and applied themselves with vigour to their checks , to keep their minds off the subject in hand — just as the aircrew had done in the cockpit on the flight from Cranfield to Waddington .
13 I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side .
14 Is my right hon. Friend aware that the measures introduced yesterday by our right hon. Friend the Chancellor , the harmonious industrial relations restored by the Government and the substantial investment from home and overseas mean that manufacturing in the heart of England is deeply grateful for all that the Government have done in the past 13 years ?
15 A number of the latter arguments will be addressed in subsequent chapters , but the thrust of the critique has to do with the categorisation procedures employed in data gathering in order to meet the requirements of variable analysis measurement and their relationship to the properties of ordinary language and of social phenomena themselves .
16 Now we know what the political masters of the multi-national force in the Gulf intend to do with the Middle East , once the war with Iraq is over and the Saddam Hussein regime , along with its creator , has been eliminated .
17 Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " ,
18 The reason has to do with the change of direction and increasing the swing-weight .
19 The reason has to do with the track width on the 1.2MB drive being narrower than on a 360K disk , and the failure of the latter 's drive heads to read from such a narrow track .
20 The cost of launderettes is prohibitive on a subsistence income — so the washing gets done in the sink .
21 Whatever the world had done to the little wide-eyed innocent who got eaten up by a bad wolf in the big city , it had n't taught her much .
22 Parents sampled the linguistic , mathematical , scientific and creative work which the children had done on the theme — and many discovered that activities which often look to be just fun can in fact be quite hard work .
23 It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films .
24 The transmitted message contains details of all that the satellite has to do in the next period , in particular to implement the survey .
25 The myth has to do with the inability , for a culture which holds the belief that mankind is autochthonous … , to find a satisfactory transition between this theory and the knowledge that human beings are actually born from the union of man and woman .
26 Agree what the patient has to do before the next session
27 What does the Minister intend to do about the 1,719 prisoners who are being held in police cells ?
28 He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists .
29 I suspected the trip had to do with the company shutting down this section of the stageline ; Mr. Mendez would see Delgado about closing his station and take an inventory of company property .
30 About 189 B.C. the Roman general Publius became mad in the panhellenic sanctuary of Naupactus and began to utter oracles in good Greek about the end of Roman rule : a king would come from Asia to take revenge for what the Romans had done to the Greeks .
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