Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 2 | Because I know the scouts do the Tesco one and whenever they are put in these cardboard boxes they have to be sorted so somebody must sort them . |
| 3 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 4 | Between the wars the Germans did a good deal of research on nailed joints and also invented new and clever forms of mechanical connectors . |
| 5 | The British Standards Institution will probably adopt it virtually word for word , as will the German DIN ( not surprising — the Germans did the original work ) . |
| 6 | Lifting her out of the water we were totally silent , and neither of us seemed to be willing to commit ourselves on a weight so we just put her in the sling and let the scales do the talking . |
| 7 | So the , the groups are very important though , because the groups do a great deal of the work for Amnesty , cos Amnesty 's different from many organisations erm in that er , what the groups do , particularly the letter writing erm , helps to make the organisation work , it 's not just a matter of raising money , we do things to , to fund raise or two , er have a proper publicity erm , the le the letters we write for prisoners and helps Amnesty to do it 's work and not many other organisations operate like that . |
| 8 | I do n't use any effects , no pedals , nothing ; I just use a guitar straight into the amp and I let the wood and the fingers do the work … ’ |
| 9 | He points out that in many areas , especially service industries , organisations have improved their efficiency and effectiveness and increased the perception of quality by getting the clients to do the work — self-service outlets are an obvious example . |
| 10 | As in any country of immigration , though , the sans-papiers do the work the French would rather not do . |
| 11 | The war made severe inroads into his livelihood and at times he would be forced onto the hills to join the gangs doing the walling , but he hated being away from his family and they too suffered from the separation and besides the wages were not enough for all seven of them . |
| 12 | Mr Bean , 29 , of Glen Road , Great Sutton , said : ‘ The lads did a great job for us . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The fans did a magnificent job for us tonight , and this result will keep the city buzzing for another eight days . ’ |
| 14 | I mean this is personally for our place , and I 'm sure all the shops did the same . |
| 15 | Well how do you make a comment on how the kids done a homework ? |
| 16 | The o the only thing is that when the kids do the sats |
| 17 | You see , and er the porters did the er er cleaned the waiting room and dusted , you see . |
| 18 | One way is , of course , to ask how the subjects did the task since , after all , they had the experience of doing it . |
| 19 | We ran the experiment in 12 sessions of eight subjects each ; eight of the sessions involved the eight groups , the remaining four sessions the subjects doing the experiment on an individual basis . |
| 20 | ‘ Probably if they ever raise the funds to do a proper dig here , they 'll find the town had a guard outpost on that hillock . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sure the inspectors did the best job they could , ’ says Mr Reed , choosing his words carefully , ‘ but the whole process is very undesirable , very unsatisfactory . |
| 22 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 23 | Well the supermarkets do the same thing do n't they ? |
| 24 | But with the parson , the youngsters do a half day in the mill and a half day at his school , an' you would n't believe the difference it 's made to those little 'uns . |
| 25 | There was er the who was called after a Frenchman who invented some type of lenses and er the MacKenzie who was one of the engineers did the building of Skerrymor one of the surveyors or something . |
| 26 | I recall some of the chaps doing the same at Oundle . ’ |
| 27 | Disturbance on the course was minimal and the contractors did an excellent job . |
| 28 | Please could you ensure that this is made clear on any notices that are put up and that the contractors doing the work are also aware that pedestrians , cyclists and people requiring access to property are to be allowed through . |
| 29 | as a project engineer or team member or one of the troops doing the job , if you were presented with that , you could have done what you 'd been asked to do ? |
| 30 | Only in the mid-1980s did the Commission determinedly begin to tackle the problem of overproduction . |