Example sentences of "do [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One small room shows a splendid set of Rubens sketches , of scenes from the Metamorphoses of Ovid , done mostly for the King of Spain 's hunting-lodge . |
| 2 | oh yeah oh but , yeah , but , this is gon na be done mostly on the streets in it for us ? , so what they gon na learn about that ? do n't remember when thingy |
| 3 | This was done successfully through the use of patois both defensively and offensively by the group . |
| 4 | Oyster farming is certainly possible , and it 's been done successfully in a number of places . |
| 5 | Erm not really you know maybe in an out of the way way they might but you know the type of musicians we are or whatever , you know we can do say I can do all the Irish stuff the up tempo rousing songs I can play Irish and Scottish dances and that kind of stuff , then Tony can do right across the board with easy listening stuff and country stuff and even one of the tracks on our new C D is er is er well what I would term a pop song . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is a concept that is generally blind to the very people who have done most of the work in such areas — agricultural workers . |
| 7 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 8 | Yet she could not have done so without the help of a young French countess , Sybille de la Borde . |
| 9 | You find enthralling tales of small businesses without a jot of formal marketing training who have , unknowingly , applied effective marketing techniques for years — but have done so under the banner of plain , common sense . |
| 10 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 11 | Those who made the journey to London might have done so for a variety of reasons . |
| 12 | I just certain , satisfy certain erm cattle requirements and carry on business in the sugar trade and of must done so for a period of time , I 'm looking at this , the third page in , top of the page , erm trade in office in London established without purpose erm now those the |
| 13 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
| 14 | It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education . |
| 15 | Many who have written about social policy have done so from the standpoint of Fabian socialism , concerned with incremental social change to create a more equal society . |
| 16 | Can I just say , first of all , that I am the odd-speaker out in this gathering because virtually everyone else who has addressed you has done so from the point of view of their own particular expertise and occupation and those of you who know health councils will appreciate that they tend to take a pretty robust view of private care as it impinges on anything to do with health . |
| 17 | Goaded , she replied sharply , ‘ Have n't I done so from the moment of my arrival ? |
| 18 | They had done so after a period of co-operation and consultation with East Germany which looks in retrospect like a laying of the groundwork for what was to come in both Germanys . |
| 19 | Those States that have ratified have done so in the expectation of the coming into force of Part XI . |
| 20 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly , databases not to be restricted to in-house use will soon be compiled at RBG , but need to be done so in the light of the rapid advancements being made internationally . |
| 22 | The time taken for them to enter the dark box is noted , and if they have not done so by the end of a fixed time , say one minute , the experiment is terminated . |
| 23 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 24 | Instead of a plot of intertwined complication , which would do nicely for a book in which its unravelling was the whole of the matter , you might well find that a plot which consisted of only one major twist or deception would suit you best . |
| 25 | Almost all wore skirts , make up and appeared to have had their hair done especially for the benefit of the cameras . |
| 26 | Statutes are only one of the means by which governments can achieve their policy objectives and there are , surprisingly , relatively few things which governments can do only with the approval of Parliament as expressed in the passing of a statute . |
| 27 | weekend that we are arranging this summer as we have done annually for a number of years . |
| 28 | Batts may have been set up or mis quoted something which I 'm sure the press would never intentionally do especially against a team like us who they all love . |
| 29 | According to Peter Hume , finance director of stockbrokers Seymour Pierce Butterfield , investors considering buying shares in a company offering concessionary discounts should only do so on the merits of the shares . |
| 30 | Local authorities have no general power to make ex gratia payments , but may do so on the recommendation of the local government ombudsman . |