Example sentences of "been do [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person .
2 It is admitted that the gradings assigned to the respective countries have been done on a subjective basis and that different observers might well have come up with somewhat different rankings .
3 Er or indeed you know , the issue er of a job which had n't been done on a particular machine er but was timed on another one .
4 I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) that it is doubly absurd to destroy jobs in the British tobacco industry — as has been done on a large scale — if that leads not to a reduction in tobacco consumption but to the substitution of imported brands of cigarette .
5 Despite the Gulfs long history of oil pollution , little research has been done on the long-term impact on marine life there .
6 Erm one difficulty with with giving a financial report is so many things seem to happen quickly and a erm apart from the fact that there was a , a major finance resources comes from we , as well you see that I have to tell you now these have been done on the red letter assembly side and you may want to alter one there er according to reform I see the cost per erm person attending is not a hundred and twelve pounds , but a hundred and fourteen pounds and that means that we have forty representatives we 've got to try and find four thousand five hundred and sixty .
7 Thirty of the first 40 titles are mono ( contrary to the original Savoy notes provided with six of these ) , and all are marked ‘ AAD ’ — surely an eccentricity given the work that has been done on the original signal ?
8 She supplemented the once-weekly group sessions by finishing activities begun in the session with her class and she sometimes initiated a task for the whole class to do to reinforce what had been done with the advisory teacher .
9 Tite and Donaldson closed the meeting with a half-hearted suggestion that a new competition could be organized among the prize-winners as had been done at the new library at Cambridge .
10 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 .
11 The main problem when using crimps is you ca n't actually see whether any damage has been done to the main line when the pressure is applied to the crimp .
12 Since then much research has been done into the basic biology of badgers as well as the epidemiology of TB in badgers and cattle .
13 Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House .
14 One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time .
15 If that had been done by a chief inspector of a Labour local authority for a Labour think tank , Conservative Members would have been the first on their feet to complain about Mr. Burchall .
16 It is possible that the experiment had been done by an American embryologist many years earlier but its significance was overlooked .
17 In view of the widespread and sometimes ill-founded criticism of the recent franchise round and despite the uniform excellence of the successful tenders , will my right hon. Friend nevertheless consider the possibility of providing a review system so as either to show up ways in which it could be improved in future or to demonstrate that an extremely good job has been done by the Independent Television Commission ?
18 So a great deal has been done by the Scottish Office .
19 The first published tensile tests seem to have been done by the French philosopher and musician Marin Mersenne ( 1588–1648 ) who was interested in the strength of the wires used in musical instruments .
20 Erm , we need to be convincing in challenge , otherwise the challenge , erm , we should question whether there is a need for any change , erm , if things have been done in a certain way for a certain period of time , erm , just because we want to change them , does n't mean to say that it does n't
21 This has been done in a similar fashion to Martin 's approach , where the fret ends are chopped off square and then individually rounded , rather than by running a fret file down the sides of the neck and lopping all the ends off at a 45 degree angle .
22 But it has been shown that few of the innovations of this period were without precedent in the policies of earlier years , and that much of the crucial thinking about the form these new institutions should take had been done in the inter war period .
23 This could also have been done in the penultimate chord , but we have chosen to avoid it by using a bass ( E ) which is mildly dissonant with an upper note ( F ) . )
24 ‘ How she was able to effect all this ’ , her nephew writes in his Memoir , ‘ is surprising , for she had no separate study to repair to , and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room , subject to all kinds of casual interruptions .
25 However , it could be argued , as has been done in the related literature on labour hoarding ( see Greer/Rhoades , 1977 ) , that establishments in a dominant market position might develop the organisational capacity to maintain more stable employment in the face of demand fluctuations , and WIRS does provide management 's assessment of sensitivity of output to price changes by competitors — a good indicator of the degree of market dominance .
26 Although a great deal of work has been done in the historical demography of the developed world relatively little research has been carried out in relation to the corresponding ( i.e. pre-demographic transition ) period in the Third World .
27 Works had been done in the adjoining street by the Commissioners for executing the Act , the expenses of which , under the provisions of their Act , they charged on the owners of the adjoining houses .
28 Most work on fossil dolphins has been done in the Northern Hemisphere , and little is yet known about the South .
29 And it 's a patch clamp recording which has been done in an inside-out patch , that is with the physiological inside of the membrane facing the bathing medium , so we have experimental control over what the er physiological inside of the membrane is seeing here .
30 Things could have been done in an underhand way , but I insisted that Hibs ask for permission to speak to me .
  Next page