Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases we might be happy for courts to do the weighing exercise involved and , to the extent that we are , we could have a ‘ common law ’ of public law compensation . |
| 2 | SCO has arranged for Chorus to do the bulk of the packaging and development work with SCO Open Desktop as the front end . |
| 3 | Those advocating embalming lose little love for doctors who ask relations for permission to do a post-mortem examination and get it . |
| 4 | The teenager who can not find a job , the young mother with no one but toddlers to talk to , the active man forced to retire because of age regulations , the person who spends day after day doing the same repetitive work — all these people , and many others , may suffer from extreme boredom . |
| 5 | A panel of experts did a spot assessment of 10 Indian medical journals and found only one , The National Medical Journal of India ( NMJI ) , to be of international standard . |
| 6 | ‘ The old Mond Division of ICI did a lot of research-led work . |
| 7 | It was asked to what sort of phenomena did the notion of games apply ? |
| 8 | What sort of noise does a … make ? |
| 9 | P.P. What sort of noise does a lion make ? |
| 10 | P.P. What sort of noise does a donkey make ? |
| 11 | Storerooms and chairs could be found anywhere but the cinematograph still had to be acquired as of course did the films themselves , which the writer did not even deign to mention . |
| 12 | what kind of activities does the individual usually engage in with the purpose of maintaining a safe environment ? |
| 13 | In which two works of fiction did the BCR appear ? |
| 14 | Some 80 per cent of diminished-responsibility defences are accepted by the prosecution , and only in around 13 per cent of cases does the prosecution contest the defence evidence and thus require the jury to apply section 2 . |
| 15 | In only a handful of cases did the interviewer have to direct the interview to any great extent , and then only in cases where the informant responded only in short phrases . |
| 16 | But that was basically a case of Bicourt doing the Board 's job . |
| 17 | Greater efforts are now made towards identifying the purpose and function of language ; to answer key questions such as ‘ what does the primary school leaver need English for ? ’ , ‘ what kind of skills does the learner need to develop in his mother tongue , at what stage , with what purpose ? ’ |
| 18 | Strach was in good form , but went off injured in the second half , possibly as a result of Curle doing a fine impression of a large concrete block at him ( for which he was booked ) . |
| 19 | ‘ He is in exactly the right frame of mind to do the business . |
| 20 | ‘ What kind of books did the learned Jim censor ? ’ |
| 21 | First , it is the only style that was invented by a woman ; and second , it requires only the minimum exertion of force to do the maximum amount of work . |
| 22 | What words of greeting did the angel give to Mary when he visited her in Nazareth ? |
| 23 | Reporter asks : What sort of demands does the part put on you ? |
| 24 | Benchmark tests are commonly used to give the reader some idea of how well a PC performs — is it fast , slow , or average , is its video performance up to scratch , what sort of speed does the hard disk go at , and that kind of thing . |
| 25 | I started by asking ‘ What sort of religion do the British favour ? ’ . |
| 26 | Few in a packed , drenched stadium would have bet on either outcome in a first half where England 's attacking approach was skidding and slipping off course while the bigger Boks dug in , drove hard and let the awesome boot of Botha do the rest . |
| 27 | That Soviet fondness for improvisation doubtless explains why the local equivalent of HMSO does a miserable job of providing us with copies of draft laws under discussion . |
| 28 | What sort of percentage do the erm essays that we hand in before the exams |
| 29 | What sort of influence did the directors and managers have with choosing the team ? |
| 30 | ( Not all violent programmes have the same effect : the nature of the violence being portrayed , the type of child doing the observing , and whether short-term or long-term effects are being studied — all these are important in trying to reach any conclusion . ) |