Example sentences of "[adv] do [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A problem somewhat done to death : |
| 2 | With this view , the Conservatives in the inter-war period were for small-scale government and low taxes — the less done by government , the better and cheaper . |
| 3 | On the desirability or otherwise of a comprehensive list of what should be done at each level , the best way to proceed is for there to be a presumption , effectively , that matters are best dealt with at national level unless it can be shown that that is better done at Community level . |
| 4 | The suspension in such a case is merely done by way of good administration . |
| 5 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 6 | Honours are one thing , and it 's not necessarily to do with class , because any one of any class can get on |
| 7 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 8 | Director Peter Smallridge claims this was less to do with ideology and more for the benefit of service users . |
| 9 | The internal mechanisms regulating relations between different enterprises and industries during the long post-war boom had less to do with price competition between enterprises and , in countries like the UK , more to do with state policies . |
| 10 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |
| 11 | But the earlier propaganda image of a ‘ human ’ and even ‘ family ’ Hitler , coming from the people , sharing its worries and cares , and understanding ‘ the little man ’ seemed to have less and less to do with reality . |
| 12 | It 's only in the last ten or twenty years that people have had the time or the money to have hobbies , especially to do with music or painting . |
| 13 | Empowerment enthusiasts say it is all to do with company culture and ensuring that employees are all fully conversant with the corporate goals and mission . |
| 14 | But you also find disappointing examples of companies which still perceive marketing to be all to do with promotion and little to do with profits . |
| 15 | A shrewd theologue said that personality has all to do with function . |
| 16 | It is all to do with progress for progress ' sake . |
| 17 | It 's just that feeling light or heavy is all to do with gravity . |
| 18 | It 's all to do with memory and word association . |
| 19 | It 's all to do with motivation . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , it 's all to do with harmony . |
| 21 | It was all to do with instinct , unsullied intelligence and an innate ability to discount the higher promptings of reason . |
| 22 | And yet presenting food is all to do with drama . |
| 23 | But the idea that this is all to do with long-windedness is quite wrong . |
| 24 | But yesterday 45-year-old Keith insisted : ‘ I know some people are going to say it 's all to do with Ecstasy but , honestly , it 's not . |
| 25 | Although SDPJ leader Takako Doi had wanted to field more candidates she had been prevented from so doing by pressure from sitting socialist members of the Diet . |
| 26 | Perhaps he really did want to cut loose and was restrained from so doing by Maman , who would have regarded it as disloyal . |
| 27 | BIS does in fact concern itself with a certain amount of valuable fact-finding , eg the BIS Education for Bibliographic Instruction Committee 's survey in 1979–80 of academic librarians involved in bibliographic instruction and the training they received at library school . |
| 28 | It all does in fact make sense . ’ |
| 29 | Having just metaphorically done in front of the vicar , small children and grandparents what they are about to do in the bridal suite , they offer everyone a small , naughty slice . |
| 30 | These exceptions are important and consideration should be given to inserting them in trust documents although this seems to be rarely done in practice . |