Example sentences of "do [prep] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Since the Minister is so concerned about the gold belonging to the Baltic states , will he see justice done for the poorest country in Europe , Albania , whose gold is in the Bank of England and was stolen from that country four decades ago ? |
2 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
3 | Probably by saying that he only supplied what custom dictated as appropriate to the social status of the deceased , and that everything was done for the complete satisfaction of his client . |
4 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
5 | And then , perhaps far back in the dim Permian Age , sufficient harm might be done for the further development of life forms to cease . |
6 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
7 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
8 | This may well be done through the normal structures of parents ' evenings and reports . |
9 | No instruments , no ornaments , the dynamics never rising above the level of quiet conversation ; everything done through the musical enunciation of the words , the five singers working in closest accord . |
10 | It had to be done through the American Consulate at Marseilles , sixty miles there and back , she was away most of the day ; I was glad of that too , we did n't really want to be alone with each other just then . |
11 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
12 | What would that do for the living conditions of the poor ? |
13 | Erm what we 're gon na do for the second part of the morning is to look , if you like at the tourism application for the determinants of demand . |
14 | ‘ I 've taken another envelope : it 'll do for the next batch of typescript . ’ |
15 | How often is project work , for teachers , put on a par with art and craft , or games : that is , something to be done after the major work of the school day , basic skill work , is finished ? |
16 | But the lettering 's done with the right hand by a left handed male , of medium height and weight , probably in his forties . ’ |
17 | Your Alexander teacher will show you how this can be done with the minimum amount of effort . |
18 | The problems arise through what I call ‘ rural conveyancing ’ because years ago such conveyancing was n't done with the necessary attention to detail . ’ |
19 | Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits . |
20 | Imagine what might be done with the collected works of Alexander Hamilton when the Founding Fathers project eventually provides them on CD-ROM sometime in the not too distant future . |
21 | ‘ It seems to me that both you and Peter could have done with the friendly shoulder of a mother to pour out your troubles to — you 're reliving something from your past . |
22 | as has been done with the two examples in the previous section . |
23 | 8 Sunday settled this book and wrote letter — 24 plates done with the first ground in 32 days — I think when the days get long — one of these plates may be done in a day … |
24 | But there is much work to be done with the econometric modelling of rational expectations and of innovative behaviour in financial markets before their policy implications can be fully understood . |
25 | This was done with the frigid politeness of two people who do not like each other , know they do not like each other , but have never let that dislike come out into the open . |
26 | This must be done with the prior approval of the Council of Ministers or its Executive Committee " . |
27 | A good indication of what was passing through his mind in the aftermath of Barricades Week is provided by a letter that he wrote to his son in mid-February : " we had to be done with the impertinent pressure of the European population in Algiers , with the hard core of politicians which was forming in the army , and finally with the myth of " French Algeria " which merely disguises the desire of the " pieds noirs " to maintain their domination over the Muslims … |
28 | The removal of safety devices to speed up production , for instance , is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors . |
29 | Figure 6.3 is about the best that can be done with the lunar data at present . |
30 | In the Chilean case , as is well known , this was done with the active collaboration of the US government and TNCs . |