Example sentences of "[verb] do the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for change of intention , this happens when a person has done the Non-Intending Practitioners ' Course but subsequently wishes to be eligible to practise here . |
| 2 | Hunt thinks Mansell has done the right thing in signing with Williams . |
| 3 | If the fish is whole , and the fishmonger has done the decent thing — removed the guts and gills , which would taint it during cooking — all you need do is immerse the beast in any container large enough to hold it ( ideally a fish kettle ) , cover it with cold water and bring it gently to the boil . |
| 4 | Since 1979 it has done the first ( seek efficiency ) and the second ( pare everything ) but never the third ( redefine the welfare state ) . |
| 5 | Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably . |
| 6 | But Ken has done the hard work for us . |
| 7 | No one has done the analogous count for all groups with maternal care . |
| 8 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 9 | It was in 1988 that the college was led to believe that the three picture would fetch £15–20 million , but while the college 's financial situation has improved since then , the state of the art market has done the exact opposite . |
| 10 | Stand-up comedian MARK LAMARR has done the Christian thing and joined The Word as its new presenter . |
| 11 | In Germany , Peter Malinski has done the same , except that , whereas the Italian kites fly in the vertical plane , Peter 's are very wide span horizontal designs . |
| 12 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point will depend on the circumstances of each case , but if the accused has done the same act on a number of occasions , if he admits he did it intentionally or if he draws attention to himself etc. then unlawful and wilful conduct may be proved . |
| 13 | This was an ambition of mine too but a busy working life restricted my activities , and since retirement Anno Domini has done the same , my total bag being no more than a meagre twenty . |
| 14 | HP figures it has done the same against Sun Microsystems Inc at the low end , claiming Sun 's attempt to break into the commercial market is based only on price . |
| 15 | The 1930s showed how individual towns ( such as Jarrow ) could lose the bulk of their economic livelihood , and ‘ de-industrialization ’ of the 1980s has done the same . |
| 16 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 17 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
| 18 | But , after a management reshuffle , it has done the sensible thing and cut the dividend . |
| 19 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 20 | ‘ Very well attended , as an opening occasion should be , but I think half of these people have come to stare at Emily Grenfell who has done the unthinkable and gone into trade . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And you propose to do the same ? ’ |
| 22 | And when these did n't meet with immediate success , yet more surveys were done and more programmes developed — until , ultimately , it was decided that , if parents could not be trusted to do the right thing , the decision had to be taken out of their hands . |
| 23 | ‘ Tony Stewart , Phil McNeill and Neil Spencer used to run the NME and Cynthia Rose used to try to do the serious side of it . |
| 24 | So this particular day at Old Newton , just before he started , he stopped to do the usual : get a good light on his owd pipe . |
| 25 | Now he has retired , his successor , Llewellyn Smith , is expected to do the same . |
| 26 | They will need to do the same if they are interpreting music . |
| 27 | To give a counter-example : in a long line consisting of two-note groups , you may need to do the opposite and emphasise each second note . |
| 28 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 29 | The farmer 's wife was the choice of over half but where possible others were included to do the heavy work . |
| 30 | The Chief Secretary said yesterday that he wanted a serious debate about the economy , yet the ridiculous , but no doubt expensive , campaign that the Government are running is designed to do the very opposite . |