Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aside from his kicking , Ellwood , the player who has done most to transform the Irish season , has shown that he can also break . |
| 2 | The need to carry out ‘ proper ’ audits has been spelled out to firms , and those that do not do so run the serious risk of losing their right to act as company auditors . |
| 3 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |
| 4 | We might do better to find the hired assassin and let him lead us to McCloy . ’ |
| 5 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 6 | But in cash-starved rural communities , where every extra pound of meat is a godsend , it can do more to win the active support of local people than any number of anti-poaching patrols . |
| 7 | The SEC hopes that by doubling both the statutory fines and prison sentences this will do more to re-adjust the regulatory imbalance which currently favours insider trading . |
| 8 | Among more radical monetarists and free marketeers there remains disappointment that the government had not done more to shift the middle ground . |
| 9 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 10 | Later , in a chapter entitled ‘ The Application of Paint ’ it says that recent books on decoration have ‘ done more to debase the traditional approach to decoration than to further an appreciation of its subtleties ’ . |
| 11 | Yet I do not doubt that Aristotle and St Paul have done more to frame the Prime Minister 's mind and therefore the destiny of her Government than any thinkers who have been dead for less than 1,900 years . |
| 12 | But if you look at the next one you see the arches er all the the other arches are have been raised about er a metre , and that was done deliberately to get the extra height on the outside wall so that they could put erm a er er higher roof in for the the knave and for the the aisle so that they could ge make it a bigger space . |
| 13 | Mr Major would do well to get the bad news out of the way as soon as he can . |
| 14 | Those who have n't would do well to browse the informative manual — an impressive publication liberally sprinkled with graphic illustrations of the program 's functions and various points to note . |
| 15 | Picking up droppings must be done regularly to keep the grazing sweet . |
| 16 | But whatever you do do n't miss the amazing Gorge du Verdon , a European version of the Grand Canyon where the river wends between 500-metre cliffs . |
| 17 | His parents might have done well to remember the ancient adage , ‘ Those whom the gods love die young ’ . |
| 18 | He says he 's done well to survive the monastic life for so long ! |
| 19 | Let's be honest , I did n't wan na see good sections , I wan na see strong sections , I wan na see vibrant sections , but I also want to see the truth in those documents when it comes back afterwards , so I 'm disappointed on this issue and er I hope something in future will be done about to report the real things that we discussed at conference as well . |
| 20 | About the only serious mistake you can make with rice is to stick your chopsticks upright in the bowl : to do so mimics the Buddhist ritual for offerings to the dead , and will quickly reduce your table to an awkward silence . |
| 21 | The study , funded by the Department of Health , offers insight into the spread of HIV and Aids , but while doing so repeats the age-old cliches and stereotypical ideas relating to male and female sexuality : namely , that men do it more than women . |
| 22 | ‘ Although , ’ said Beuno thoughtfully , ‘ the second law of thermodynamics is extremely funny because all the things we are all so busy doing only hasten the inevitable end . |
| 23 | What was it doing proportionately to increase the general availability of jobs ? |
| 24 | Furthermore , the typical penalties for those individuals and organisations who are found guilty of corporate crime do little to deter the would-be criminal . |
| 25 | Sympathetic typifications of Catholics do little to lessen the obvious problem of being attacked while walking the beat . |
| 26 | Chancellor Norman Lamont 's push for growth will boost recovery prospects in 1993 but do little to alleviate the economic pain over the rest of the year , according to separate forecasts yesterday . |
| 27 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 28 | Although Carr produced the most sustained attack on the assumptions of Idealism , it was Hans Morgenthau who did most to popularize the new approach of Realism . |
| 29 | The bulk of capital continued , however , to be supplied by the landed interest whose resources and local initiatives did most to provide the improved road network . |
| 30 | Instead it was Andy Roxburgh 's new kid on the block , Eoin Jess , who did most to bring the young supporters out of their seats . |