Example sentences of "do [adj] for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His flashy marketing campaigns have done little for the success of Midland 's new products . |
| 2 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 3 | The Single European Act , fully in force from 1992 , will be a bonus for business but will do little for the rest of us . |
| 4 | This behaviour undoubtedly enhances the survival of the transposon , but — as Crick , with Leslie Orgel , Ford Doolittle and Carmen Sapienza argued , it does n't necessarily do much for the bacterium in which the transposon is a passenger . |
| 5 | Would n't do much for the value of the house , either . ’ |
| 6 | It would n't be fair for such a player — who could do much for the balance of the side as a genuine all-rounder — to be held back just because there was an ageing geriatric hanging around , trying to prolong his playing days . |
| 7 | Can I really expect her to do that for the rest of my life ? ’ |
| 8 | erm It can be daunting to go back and erm meet teachers again and talk to them as , as adults rather than in the way that you used to when you were a child and erm the teacher was very much above you , but erm try your best to , to do that for the sake of the child because it is very very helpful for children if they feel that their teachers and parents are on pretty good terms . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 10 | The group 's belief in its own morality : ‘ We are doing this for the benefit of everyone . ’ |
| 11 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 12 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 13 | He , or the second horseman , did this for the whole of the field until it was marked out in equally spaced stetches . |
| 14 | What they had not done when the Celts were plundering Greece and Asia Minor , they did later for the benefit of the Romans . |
| 15 | For all the success of 20th century wonder drugs , 19th century improvements in sanitation did more for the health of the nation . |
| 16 | Your mag promotes and encourages all this ; reading an analysis of Joe Satriani 's playing , for example , probably does little for the confidence of most readers ( I myself found it quite stretching at first ! ) . |