Example sentences of "do [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've taken another envelope : it 'll do for the next batch of typescript . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | But the lettering 's done with the right hand by a left handed male , of medium height and weight , probably in his forties . ’ |
| 13 | Your Alexander teacher will show you how this can be done with the minimum amount of effort . |
| 14 | The problems arise through what I call ‘ rural conveyancing ’ because years ago such conveyancing was n't done with the necessary attention to detail . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This must be done with the prior approval of the Council of Ministers or its Executive Committee " . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | The removal of safety devices to speed up production , for instance , is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors . |
| 21 | In the Chilean case , as is well known , this was done with the active collaboration of the US government and TNCs . |
| 22 | The argument was over Zack 's decision to close with the negotiator called Quinn and have done with the whole thing at two million dollars ransom . |
| 23 | I also swear that what I do is done with the full knowledge of Bishop Wishart ! ’ |
| 24 | This will be done with the full cooperation of C3 Division of the Home Office , the Lord Chancellor 's Department and the Crown Prosecution Service all of whom have agreed to grant access to the relevant documentation in relation to cases during the first five years of the Act 's operation . |
| 25 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 26 | There must be some act done with the deliberate intention of doing harm to the trespasser , or at least some act done with reckless disregard of the presence of the trespasser . |
| 27 | ‘ What we all want to find out I suppose : who killed Paul Gray and was it done with the regimental sword from the Infantry chapel ? ’ |
| 28 | ( 2 ) Anything done … or having effect as done , under a provision reproduced in the consolidating Acts has effect as if done under the corresponding provision of the consolidating Acts . |
| 29 | Eogan had told Snizort about the ritual mating between Humans and beasts , which could only be done under the strict control of the Court Sorcerers and the Panel of Judges , and Snizort had been entranced . |
| 30 | Why not leave slogging through all that real-time stuff to the critics , and just make do with the flashy emptiness of the trailer ? |