Example sentences of "[noun] [be] done [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available !
2 And then — ‘ The Boches are done for ! ’
3 What what we need to do , is make sure these scripts are done before half term really , do n't we .
4 When α scans are done with a reduced scattering angle θ , peaks from shadowing are observed .
5 The buttons of his shirt are done up wrong .
6 The checks are done on a charge code basis , specified by the user , on the latest ‘ n ’ issues of each module .
7 Many of the different parts of the rehabilitation programme are done in parallel , both within single treatment sessions and in the overall programme .
8 Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ?
9 They are afraid to stay in in case their doors are kicked in , but they are also afraid to go out in case their homes are done in while they are out .
10 What has in effect been done with the Form Program is that , instead of the whole garment shape being entered as one program as is normally the case , the shape has been divided into sections that coincide with the stitch pattern lengths to be knitted with each worked out as a separate program .
11 If the sessions are done in the home , family or friends will be asked to be reasonably quiet , and not to turn the radio or television up , or have noisy conversations .
12 Does the Chancellor appreciate the harm being done to the economy by the 20 per cent .
13 Peace talks were set to resume in Caracas , Venezuela , on Aug. 26 between the government and the Simon Bolivar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Group ( CNGSB ) , which had announced on Aug. 1 that it would suspend attacks on the country 's economic infrastructure , especially electricity pylons and oil pipelines , because of " the harm being done to the poverty stricken communities of the country " .
14 In our special reports this week we 've heard complaints of under-investment in railways , over-reliance on road building , and of harm being done to the environment .
15 All refinement steps were done without imposing non-crystallographic symmetry constraints .
16 If these can be confirmed and if the tappings were done with the authority of a Home Office warrant , it suggests that the guidelines were being interpreted with a remarkable degree of latitude .
17 In medical studies , this is sometimes the only ethical way to proceed ; furthermore , the rarity of most abnormalities would demand a very large initial sample if the study were done by initial matching or by a cause-to-effect argument .
18 Lord , you are the source of peace ; we cry to You for peace in our world ; daily we see and hear of strife within nations , of tensions between states , of violence being done by men against men ; we are sad Lord , and know that You are sad too .
19 There is now some research being done on local languages in the university , but given the complex pattern of languages , especially with widespread population movement , and the cost , it seems unlikely that the government 's policy on the official medium of instruction will be changed .
20 The papers are a reasonable cross section of the research being done on these topics in the UK today .
21 Kid and suckling pig were done to a turn on spits attended by uncles and a rapt audience of neighbourhood dogs .
22 The tapping from the furnace is done by means of tap holes in the side of the furnace and these are plugged with clay and what happens is one of the workers has a lump of clay on the end of a long metal rod .
23 from such a simple diagram it is easy to assume that all the thinking is done in terms of functions .
24 But for introverts , really , thinking is done in here , you know .
25 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 .
26 This does not change the fact that , as far as Gandhi is concerned , ahi sā informs the spirit and the circumstances in which violence is done by him .
27 One reason for the nonstandard approach in the USA is that much of the investigatory work undertaken by the GAO is done at the request of the Congress .
28 The video sensing is done by a robust and high-definition solid-state imaging device called a CCD .
29 Since individual media are competing with one another this is , perhaps , hardly surprising ; but where much of the research is done under the auspices of joint committees representing agencies , advertisers , and media it is slightly frustrating that so little seems to have been achieved .
30 Nonetheless , such is the business world 's trust in statistics that analysis of the ratings is done in massive detail , and the results treated like holy writ .
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