Example sentences of "[be] done [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 2 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 3 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 4 | Mother General 's view was that enough had been done for the child already . |
| 5 | Do you see what I mean , see most of this has been done for the convenience of the Quick Save Supermarkets on that er , I should say . |
| 6 | In these the selection has been done for the trainer . |
| 7 | Nothing had been done for the women who were exploited by prostitution . |
| 8 | This has been done for the Shell Better Britain Campaign 's excellent ‘ Getting Help ’ guide . |
| 9 | The bearer of this document , Agatha de Courcy , must be given every aid and assistance for what she has done has been done for the sake of the Crown and the good of our realm . ’ |
| 10 | Much of this work has been done for the larger national and international companies . |
| 11 | We need now , therefore , to consider the empirical work that has been done on the topic of acquired distinction ( and on acquired non-distinctiveness or equivalence ) . |
| 12 | For example , Spears ( 1982 ) states that little research has been done on the cost of rehabilitation of severely eroded hillsides . |
| 13 | As far as we can tell , no work has yet been done on the psychology of the train-spotter . |
| 14 | Significant amounts of gas may have been generated , and it would be interesting to know whether geochemical work has been done on the gases found in Jurassic reservoirs to see whether any Palaeozoic contributions are present . |
| 15 | Very little research has been done on the literature guides and only one on their use by students , so all we have is speculation . |
| 16 | Despite the Gulfs long history of oil pollution , little research has been done on the long-term impact on marine life there . |
| 17 | Thirty of the first 40 titles are mono ( contrary to the original Savoy notes provided with six of these ) , and all are marked ‘ AAD ’ — surely an eccentricity given the work that has been done on the original signal ? |
| 18 | Phosphatidylcholine molecules have been synthesised which contain diacetylenic groups in one ( mixed-chain polymers ) or both acyl chains ( identical-chain polymers ) , and studies have been done on the physical properties and biological applications of these phospholipid polymers . |
| 19 | Though a certain amount of work has been done on the history of Africa 's media , there is room for research on a far larger scale . |
| 20 | Since then little work has been done on the loco by the small group of owners who like everyone else have been hampered by lack of funds . |
| 21 | An excellent example is the work that has been done on the hippocampus . |
| 22 | As yet research is not available , nor has substantive work been done on the relative merits of different approaches to providing residential care for children with disabilities . |
| 23 | No recent research has been done on the subject but my own experience suggests GP racing produces heart and breath rates matching those experienced during prolonged high speed running . |
| 24 | While many other studies have been done on the development of sleep , their results do not contradict the norms established in Florida , and the principal advantage of the work of the Williams group is that their sample sizes were appreciably large — at least twenty in each of thirteen age groups , and a consistent system of recording and scoring was used over all these subjects . |
| 25 | Here again , a large amount of work has been done on the analysis of written discourse for students of ESP and EAP ( see , for example , Selinker , Tarone , and Hanzeli 1981 ) , but there is no reason why the same techniques can not be applied more widely to the production and processing of writing of more general interest . |
| 26 | As a second , hypothetical example , suppose that I was keen to make some contribution to human physiology or anatomy , and suppose I noted that very little work has been done on the weight of human earlobes . |
| 27 | All these studies acknowledge that Mills and Boon is a ‘ phenomenon in publishing ’ but little work has been done on the marketing and production side of a phenomenon which claimed a readership of 250 million worldwide during 1984 . |
| 28 | The harmful effects of unemployment on mental and physical health are well established , although much less work has been done on the effectiveness of various interventions . |
| 29 | Yet , as Newton ( 1976 , p. 148 ) reminds us , while the ‘ dictatorship of the official ’ thesis has ‘ a certain commonsense plausibility … it has very little empirical evidence to support it … because little research has been done on the subject ’ . |
| 30 | At one time push-ups were done on the knuckles but since medical evidence proved that this could cause severe metacarpal damage they have been done on the flat of the palms . |