Example sentences of "do [prep] the [adj] [noun] in " 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 | as has been done with the two examples in the previous section . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 6 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 7 | Like every church , like every Christian organisation , there were things being said and done in the Christian family in Rome that should not be said and done in a fellowship of Christ 's people . |
| 8 | We have a very lively time at Conference , we er conduct our business very differently from most of the Party Conferences , most of the work is done before the main debates in workshop sessions . |
| 9 | I remembered about acid rain , and what it had done to the noseless bishops in their crumbling niches , and the warning notices on this boarded-off turret : Condemned … |
| 10 | The sooner the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister come to the Principality , the better : let the voters there decide who should have the credit for what is happening in Wales and also what should be done to the Conservative party in view of the deplorable levels of unemployment to be found in Wales . |
| 11 | I could 've done without the naughty words in the scrolly , but this is a minor niggle ( prude ! — Ed ) — Dutch Breeze 1 & 2 are mighty fine demos . |
| 12 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 13 | ‘ You write the specifications for her repairs , and I 'll guarantee to have them done at the best boatyard in America . ’ |
| 14 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
| 15 | The incident has been highlighted by the Environmental Investigation Agency ( EIA ) as an example of the damage being done by the worldwide trade in wild birds . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel very flattered to be getting this award because it is a recognition of the work done by the voluntary sector in Stockport . ’ |
| 17 | She continues to do for the late Canon in a manner of speaking . ’ |
| 18 | It may not be immediately obvious what theories of the atonement have to do with the Great Battle in the modern world . |
| 19 | As she let herself out into the garden through the kitchen door , she gave a small shiver that had absolutely nothing to do with the autumnal chill in the air . |
| 20 | The vitriolic anonymous letter he despatched to The Bell in the summer of 1858 had much less to do with the half-hearted way in which the government was handling the question of emancipation than with the way in which the regime proposed to run the empire after emancipation had been achieved . |
| 21 | Upton protesters say they condemn such tactics and have nothing to do with the similar attack in Worcestershire . |
| 22 | Admittedly , the definition of the student role that emerged in that conception of higher education had much to do with the idealist epistemology in which von Humboldt and the other founders of the modern German university were themselves scholars and contributors . |
| 23 | The difficulties that public sector graduates have in getting into the senior positions in the professions have little to do with their academic accomplishments and much to do with the cultural stratification in society of which academic institutions are a part . |
| 24 | It has to do with the pervasive corruption in public life , now at last being revealed in Milan , which favours large , one-off projects over mere maintenance because they allow more opportunities for douceurs . |
| 25 | He had reportedly turned down an offer from Kaunda of the post of labour minister and a position on the central committee of UNIP — a decision which was said to have had much to do with the MMD's decision in April to choose him as its presidential candidate [ see p. 38133 ] . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , when the occasion demanded it ( as it did during the turbulent period in which he became Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University ) , he showed great courage and firmness — the latter always in the nicest possible way . |
| 27 | Just as it did during the mass exodus in the weeks before the Berlin Wall was built , the state propaganda machine is claiming that the current wave of emigration is due to a campaign organised by West Germany to lure their people away . |
| 28 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 29 | Monique Javer , the American-born former US Collegiate Champion who wears the GB vest with such pride and always plays her best for her country as she did in the European Cup in 1991 , will be the undisputed British No. 1 woman player by the end of the year . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've learned more about love from people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat world in which I spent my life . ’ |