Example sentences of "[noun] do for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study done for the pensioner 's parliament found that the basic pension paid in Britain in 1988 was lower than that paid in every country except Portugal — but Germany , which has a high pension , and Ireland , which has a low one , were omitted for technical reasons . |
| 2 | The support that such strategic arguments seek to obtain from international law can be seen in a significant study done for the Rand Corporation ( Builder and Graubard , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |
| 4 | Archbishop Fisher was very pleased at what Ramsey did for the conference . |
| 5 | The adventure story offers the writer as many chances as the more staid domestic chronicle does for the exploration of the progress of a young person towards adulthood . |
| 6 | ‘ The cost is well-spent in the overall context of the Trident programme , and in providing the security that the Trident programme does for the nation . ’ |
| 7 | Got the shopping done for the next fortnight . |
| 8 | Independence requires , however , two things missing in Britain and America : the regular rotation of auditors ; and the banning of conflicts of interest between work done for the shareholders ( auditing ) and the increasing amount the same firms do for the managers ( consultancy ) . |
| 9 | There is no reason why Tanzania should not combine an examination , which is based on the things we teach , with a teacher and pupil assessment of work done for the school and community . |
| 10 | No partner is entitled , as of right , to a salary for work done for the partnership . |
| 11 | Nobody got any work done for the rest of the morning . |
| 12 | Of course , you can always refer to books but this is rarely convenient if you have a piece of work to do for a deadline . |
| 13 | Will last month 's breakdown of the GATT talks do for the 1990s what Smoot-Hawley did for the 1930s ? |
| 14 | ‘ What did your husband do for a living ? ’ |
| 15 | Mm oh what did your husband do for a living ? |
| 16 | He has to get the job done for a price . |
| 17 | and erm , and erm , and she goes , she goes erm , so what does your daddy do for an occupation , baby ? |
| 18 | The next thing she asked for was a job to do for the Lord . |
| 19 | erm And if you look at the second line , and begin three words in , it says ‘ the mistress , ’ the mistress is abbreviated , ‘ answers her man can not work , nor can she spare him till she be paid for what her husband did for the King 's soldiers ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ And what does good-for-nothing Sunil do for a living ? ’ |
| 21 | Just as this same lively and turbulent natural process did for the ancient Egyptians . |
| 22 | Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer . |
| 23 | The book does for harmonisation in Europe 1992 what John Wayne did for the ballet . |
| 24 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 25 | McAllister had apologised to Rose for refusing her invitation — she had sewing to do for the bazaar , she said — when the front door had banged shut behind her and she had been compelled to run round to the back and come in through the kitchen . |
| 26 | I 've got an obit of poor old Eddy Moulton to do for the Journalist . |
| 27 | What do these figures do for the bottom line ? |
| 28 | Just what have South Africa done for the game during their isolation ? |
| 29 | Cos I got that other meat , the red meat to do for a supper but I can do that for tomorrow |
| 30 | Is it to set the general atmosphere and mood as Stravinsky did for The Firebird Mysterious sounds of the wind whispering in the trees , the soaring flight of a bird and the heavy tread of an unseen foot are still a wonderful introduction to this magic tale . |