Example sentences of "do [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Pearson acknowledged that the new racial science could do little without the hearty co-operation of medics .
2 Mere words could do little in the short term to reverse the chaotic situation .
3 So if you could do that for the next meeting I 'd be grateful .
4 so I think we 're inerent , inherently , er , unlikely to be able to predict that very well , but certainly if we can get the jurisdictional outs , and the clear no injustices and those to Sarah , then I think we should do that across the four teams , what we 've got at the moment is quite distorting as well , in other ways , look at my
5 Could n't do that on the other products because there 's limited number of slots .
6 I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible .
7 Yeah but then yo er in a party situation you could probably do that in the first minutes could n't you , I would have thought everybody in th room will have spoken in the first five minutes would n't they ?
8 Okay so we could do that in the first place we could say one pizza there well we 've got two pizzas but we 'll let's just concentrate on one , share it between six people .
9 ‘ May I ask why you did n't do that in the first place ? ’
10 I could n't understand why you did n't do that in the first place .
11 We can no longer realistically do that in the open systems world .
12 No reason why I should n't do some of the simple work . ’
13 You can do this with the following program line .
14 But if you like , governments could do this for the non-teaching staff and not do that for the teaching staff .
15 I thought I could best do this at the Foreign Office , since in the aftermath of Suez so many dangerous tangles remained to be unravelled and so many ruptured friendships to be mended .
16 They decided , however , that they could not do this during the coming festival of Passover because Jesus was still popular among the people and they did not want to cause unrest .
17 You can do this through the many Hall and Department associations , through clubs and groups at home and abroad .
18 The most important first step — although as we will see later it is by no means irrevocable — is to select a presentation style and in the latest version of the product — HGW Version 1.01 — you can do this from the New Presentation dialog box .
19 She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss .
20 Presumably this will make it easier for voters in the Tory heartlands to shop abroad and avoid duty , though it may not do much for the Conservative vote in Kent .
21 They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’
22 The cost of the low-end word processor and desktop publishing program combined may well be more than the cost of a good word processor that can do many of the same functions .
23 It is possible that there is an undiscovered and unique set of equations that describes all the forces and particles in the universe in a kind of Theory of Everything that would do away with the Anthropic Principle .
24 Equalising educational provision for children of different socio-economic backgrounds does not do away with the educational disabilities of working class children vis-à-vis middle class children .
25 The sum of these probabilities should be 1.0 , meaning that the executive must do one of the four things mentioned .
26 Think of these as the troops who will do most of the real fighting .
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