Example sentences of "have done a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Stewart has done a first-rate job of translation , preserving the scientific content without losing any of the humour . |
| 2 | Since those days she has done a great deal of work with Steven Berkoff — particularly in his play for two people , Decadence which she has played in London , Los Angeles and Dublin . |
| 3 | The appointment of Bernard Gallacher as British National Coach three years ago , was another boost for the women 's game — ‘ He has done a great deal of good , ’ confirmed Sally Hepburn — and the LGU was delighted when the Wentworth professional agreed to continue his duties this season , despite the distraction of captaining the European Ryder Cup side at Kiawah Island in September . |
| 4 | Similarly , the Transport 2000 group , which has done a great deal of work on this matter , has discovered beyond doubt that the interests of consumers in England and Wales have not been protected by privatisation . |
| 5 | He has done a great deal of important work to expose the problem and to help us find a solution to it . |
| 6 | has done a tremendous amount of meticulous research on these valuable records . |
| 7 | He was the ‘ guiding light ’ who ‘ has done a tremendous amount of good work for the club ; he has gained the confidence of everyone ’ . |
| 8 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 9 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 10 | Steve Chambers has done a superb adaptation of the D.H . |
| 11 | The Army has done a grand job of work in the initial stages of rehabilitation , and without its aid progress would have been far slower . |
| 12 | Mr. Dobson : Setting aside the Lord President 's snide references to the London food commission , which has done a considerable amount of good work , I ask him whether , instead of being so complacent , he would be prepared to undertake a thoughtful and organised survey of the views of Hon. Members and of the other people who have to use the cafeterias in this place |
| 13 | He has done a little bit of manipulation here and there but overall it will not boost the economy . |
| 14 | Henson has done a lovely job of placing his famous characters in the novel 's context while never letting us forget that this is meant to be a huge extravaganza . |
| 15 | ‘ Someone has done a lovely drawing of me . |
| 16 | Yet , the people , who might assert this , will not have done a careful costing of royal finances . |
| 17 | Can we actually pause there cos you 've done a good bit of digging on that one . |
| 18 | ‘ In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition . |
| 19 | We 've done a quick calculation of interview sheets that we think we , we need , I need two boxes for Caernarfon , Jan needs three , we 've got four and a half boxes already , we were gon na order two just to be on the same safe , but we 're just looking into erm whether we need , how many we need on the R S I 's on the M sixty three cos we might as well order them all together , save |
| 20 | ‘ I 've done a fair amount of work down here in the south of France , mostly on the Cap Ferrat . |
| 21 | Go and ask Grandpa , oh you 've done a little bit of a poo poo |
| 22 | He and April , Maggie 's mum , had done a great deal of their courting in the back seats of the stalls . |
| 23 | not because he was Mansfield , but because he was a man of their own party and had done a great deal of work in connection with municipal , industrial and trade union affairs generally … |
| 24 | After a career in the British army , during which time he had done a great deal of fieldwork and excavation , and had amassed a collection of artefacts from all over the world , he spent the rest of his life studying and excavating archaeological sites on his estate . |
| 25 | One student teacher , carrying out a project on food , had done a great deal of oral history work and used pictorial sources . |
| 26 | She had done a great deal of hiking in her university years , and using whatever cover nature provided had been the order of the day . |
| 27 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 28 | He had done a reasonable amount of pilot work , firing for some of the older shunt link drivers and had also fired on the local ‘ pick-up ’ , but this at last was the real thing . |
| 29 | The police had done a reasonable job of cleaning up and had put a plastic sheet over the hole in the window to keep the rain out . |
| 30 | Not one drop of paint hit the wall he was supposed to be painting , but it had done a marvellous job of covering the path and half a garage door . |