Example sentences of "be done [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be used to cast off a group of stitches at , say , the last row of the shoulder ( when the shaping has been done using the holding position ) . |
| 2 | Nothing of any depth has been done to give the wider public , and especially young people , a cultural background or rather , an educational training , which transcends mere entertainment or spectacle . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , no systematic research has been done to determine the typical voice settings of speakers of Caribbean Creoles or of members of the Caribbean community in Britain . |
| 4 | Although a good deal has by now been written about the language and putative language problems of Caribbean children in British schools , remarkably little research has actually been done to study the linguistic behaviour of Caribbeans in Britain . |
| 5 | soc : And I suppose you 'd like more of the same so you can go on pinpointing variation and replicate the studies which have been done to show the same thing in different places , or maybe to include a few more explanatory variables in your statistical model ? |
| 6 | This matter is of the greatest concern to my constituents , many of whom are at their wits ' end as to what can be done to halt the murderous menace of the theft and racing of cars in residential city streets . |
| 7 | Could nothing be done to restore the traditional balance of advantage to the defender ? |
| 8 | This may be done using the water-dipping method described previously . |
| 9 | RIGHT A variety of possible reconstruction can often be done using the same evidence . |
| 10 | It induces nausea and thereby inaction , since nothing can be done to affect the essential condition : action requires illusion . |
| 11 | Impossible to administer , I know , but something has to be done to stop the unbelievable carnage on Scotland 's hills . |
| 12 | Child care experts have gathered from throughout Scotland to discuss what can be done to improve the educational record of children in care . |
| 13 | As with Land Rovers , updating ( and possibly a personal number plate ) can be done to hide the true age of a Range Rover or to improve its appearance or replacement for accident or corrosion reasons with newer parts . |
| 14 | Given the preoccupation of most of the British Press with the sensational and the titillating such coverage will inevitably continue , but more can be done and should be done to avoid the negative image of the profession that emerges with each story . |
| 15 | You may not think that access cards for greater access are a good idea , but what are you proposing should be done to double the age-participation rate in this country ? |
| 16 | Side leg exercises can be done to work the outer thigh area , and a wide variety of scissor-type exercises can be done for the hips and lower stomach areas , ( More advanced stomach exercises can be carried out using weights if desired . ) |
| 17 | Try as the leadership might to erase what happened , nothing can be done to change the one fact on which the future of China turns : the men who ordered the assault on Tiananmen Square will surely die long before the youth they ordered to be killed . |
| 18 | Once again , something should be done to remove the ugly spectacle of a Government department negotiating a compromise settlement that saves work all round , but which may lead to a claim by another department . |
| 19 | In the first months of 1950 both the British service chiefs and many influential figures in Washington complained that too little was being done to combat the communist threat in the Cold War . |
| 20 | Here he reports on the work being done to bring the 18-year-old VVER up to acceptable safety standards . |
| 21 | Site-directed mutagenesis was done using the phosphothioate method ( Amersham ) . |
| 22 | What is curious about Carnot 's work was that it was done using the obsolescent theory that heat was a weightless fluid , driving a steam-engine like water driving a water-wheel . |
| 23 | Little was done to resolve the age-old problem of land-distribution . |
| 24 | A typewritten statement in Arabic delivered to a Western news agency in west Beirut said that the ‘ soldiers of justice ’ — a name previously used by Abu Nidal 's organisation when it kidnapped the Belgian doctor , Jan Cools , in southern Lebanon last year — had ‘ executed the death sentence ’ against Dr Wybran , adding that this was done to encourage the Palestinian intifada uprising against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza strip . |