Example sentences of "[be] done [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such major physical impacts are fairly easy to assess , but not enough work has yet been done to assess the effect of visitors on wildlife itself , though it is known that shy species will decline , while common species will often increase , and that fauna both on land and in water will decline faster than flora ( Liddle and Scorgie , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 3 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 4 | Most of this increase stems directly from government policies and , although some extra resources have been allocated for 1990/91 and 1991/92 , little has been done to remedy the situation . |
| 5 | ‘ This is apparently against prison regulations , but little seems to have been done to enforce the rule . ’ |
| 6 | Erm the darkening of the edges , I suppose that 's been done to create a little more atmosphere in the picture , and I think it possibly does . |
| 7 | What has been done supplies the framework of justification for what is to be done . |
| 8 | She guessed that , whatever had been done to minimise the damage , he 'd have a headache by now , and she could n't stop herself feeling an immediate pang of sympathy . |
| 9 | It was obvious that the plane had been repainted before its journey and Whitlock suddenly wondered if it had been done to erase the memories of the previous regime . |
| 10 | Nothing , however , had been done to implement the proposals when , in March 1778 , the French signed a treaty of friendship with the Americans . |
| 11 | Most of this work has been done using a standard binocular light microscope with variable ×8 to ×40 magnification , but extensive use has also been made of the scanning electron microscope . |
| 12 | It can be used to cast off a group of stitches at , say , the last row of the shoulder ( when the shaping has been done using the holding position ) . |
| 13 | I imagined that this might have been done to obliterate a directional ‘ fix ’ to throw treasure hunters off the scent . |
| 14 | It believes more should have been done to ease the severity of the jobless situation . |
| 15 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 16 | Nothing of any depth has been done to give the wider public , and especially young people , a cultural background or rather , an educational training , which transcends mere entertainment or spectacle . |
| 17 | Nothing had been done to prettify the site as at Sizewell , on the Suffolk coast , or to produce the pleasantly laid-out grounds of smooth lawn , flowering trees and shrubs which so agreeably impressed him on his periodic visits to Winfrith in Dorset . |
| 18 | Indeed this is what should have been done to stop the actions of the buffer stock Manager . |
| 19 | All in all David and I agreed that not enough work has been done to merit the meeting in Barcelona in the week beginning 10 July . |
| 20 | In the intervening year , nothing has been done to right the wrongs of the decade , so what profit has been gleaned in the first year of the new leadership of the Conservative party ? |
| 21 | While everyone agrees that far more could , and should , have been done to contain the AIDS epidemic , the key issue now is that positive steps can still be taken . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , no systematic research has been done to determine the typical voice settings of speakers of Caribbean Creoles or of members of the Caribbean community in Britain . |
| 23 | The term is problematic , and to date very little work has been done to determine the means by which it is possible to reach qualitative judgements about dramatic characters . |
| 24 | There was confirmation from Cathery , not only that this was true , but that , in the absence of Wilson in America , everything possible had been done to meet the complaints of the Southampton Branch . |
| 25 | Finally , you must always ask yourself " What could have been done to prevent the crisis ? |
| 26 | This has been done to increase the incentives the higher income groups have to work harder . |
| 27 | Although a good deal has by now been written about the language and putative language problems of Caribbean children in British schools , remarkably little research has actually been done to study the linguistic behaviour of Caribbeans in Britain . |
| 28 | Many other hon. Members are equally grateful for what has been done to ensure the future of the TA in their areas . |
| 29 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 30 | Nor has much been done to attack the soft commissions ( payments in kind ) given to fund managers to attract their business . |