Example sentences of "[verb] be do in " in BNC.

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1 Not too much has been done in the mountains , hardly surprising given the length of time they have been dry , but Dai Lampard snatched a great ascent with Mother of Mercy E5 6a .
2 A literary text is , manifestly , the product of a particular historical situation , and may be interpreted in the light of its origins and initial reception , as has been done in the discussions of Romantic literature by Marilyn Butler and Jerome J. McGann , who can be called New Historicists minus the ideological charge .
3 ‘ This has been done in a very formal and proper way . ’
4 Most work on fossil dolphins has been done in the Northern Hemisphere , and little is yet known about the South .
5 So savour it while it is still new , because the developers have had the conservationists looking keenly over their shoulders during the building work , and everything has been done in the best possible taste .
6 This has been done in America , but only at practices with a patient-list of 50,000 or more .
7 This has been done in the belief that redundant rural labour could be absorbed by consistent growth in the manufacturing and service sectors of the economy .
8 All this has been done in the name of spurious progress : to create jobs in rural communities , provide employment .
9 Although much work has been done in the decades since those words were written , it is still true to say that many texts in printed form do not reflect the contents of the original manuscripts with complete accuracy , although more recent printed transcriptions tend to be reliable , not least because they have usually been scanned by a number of scholars before publication .
10 Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published .
11 Some collecting has been done in Colombia and Peru , but not enough ; in Central America , some primitive cultivated varieties in danger of extinction are now preserved in the germplasm collection at Turrialba in Costa Rica , but there , as elsewhere , the present-day status of the wild cocoa populations remains mysterious .
12 ‘ The damage that has been done in the pursuit of production is the direct result of treating farming as if it were simply another business ’ BRIAN REDHEAD
13 Many of the flavourings which enhance our food today have not been thoroughly tested , or if they have , the testing has been done in isolation without taking into account the reaction it may have when combined with others .
14 Most of the important Physics that has been done in the laboratory during that time has been profoundly influenced by Sir Charles .
15 To date , some work has been done in several areas including planning and learning and induction .
16 The way that this has been done in the past is the subject of the next chapter ; the way that it might be done in the future is the justification for this book .
17 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 .
18 Perhaps they have read or heard of some of the research which has been done in this field in recent years , and it has opened up their minds .
19 I understand this theory and , while I am not able to disprove it , I feel that , in the light of all the research which has been done in more recent times , it leaves too many gaps which no one has yet been able to fill .
20 What little research has been done in this area suggests that the proportion of deprived youngsters heading for the great outdoors is disproportionately low .
21 This sort of survey has been done in many communities since the 1960s when it first became popular .
22 Most of the listening has been done in workshops of one sort or another .
23 A great deal of work has been done in attempts to get at the ‘ true ’ total of crimes committed .
24 Very little work has been done in this field but there has been sufficient to reveal that the refinement of economic theory ( especially in terms of mathematical sophistication ) is akin to fashioning scalpels to cut through jungle when it comes to the real world of policy-making [ Graham , 1975 ] .
25 A great deal of work has been done in academic and business schools on the track record of success of those who have diversified totally outside their own fields of experience .
26 However , this has been done in ways which least disturb the traditional division of labour between men and women within the family .
27 More work has been done in the research labs and in the field to improve shoulder strap comfort when carrying big loads , but we still await the goods in the shop .
28 What a waste of all the good work that has been done in India !
29 Imagine wanting to live in that room , that awful room , with walls like dung-heaps , what has happened in there , what has been done in that room ?
30 In this assessment of the sexual climate we may now look at some of the more reputable work which has been done in this country to analyse sexual experience and attitudes among our population .
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