Example sentences of "do to the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clifford Smyth stresses the damage that would have been done to the electoral appeal of the DUP if it had been too closely associated with the Free Presbyterian Church and offers this as the main reason why the Presbytery of the Free Church refused to allow ministers other than Paisley and Beattie to stand as DUP candidates . |
| 2 | Then he raised his wings and lifted himself up as Slorne had done to the very top of his cage . |
| 3 | In music of a definitely pictorial kind such as this , every effort must be made in the direction of realism , provided that no violence is done to the musical outline of the original . |
| 4 | The fear was banished from his heart by pity for his fellow-countrymen and anger at what was being done to the little village of Granard that he had thought would be a haven of peace . |
| 5 | ‘ No other archaeological museum relates as we do to the ancient lands of the Bible ’ . |
| 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 . |
| 7 | This extension is straightforward because the curved space–time we inhabit bears the same relation to the Minkowski space of SR that a curved space does to the Euclidean space of Newtonian mechanics . |