Example sentences of "do [prep] the [adj] [n mass] of " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | HLA typing is now being done in the present series of patients . |
4 | One of the most painful issues concerns the increasingly urgent question about what to do with the 250,000 works of art which are rotting away in various stores as a result of the disastrous consequence of the BKR scheme . |
5 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
6 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |