Example sentences of "[vb -s] been do to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem when using crimps is you ca n't actually see whether any damage has been done to the main line when the pressure is applied to the crimp . |
| 2 | Similarly , little justice has been done to the CSW approach in the study , though a prospective approach is likely to yield more comparable data . |
| 3 | The National Trust is currently undertaking a structural survey which will reveal the full scale of the damage , but it is already known that extensive harm has been done to the brickwork , windows and terrace . |
| 4 | Considerable restoration has been done to the property recently . |
| 5 | Funding has been withdrawn from Bristol and other similar therapeutic centres , and immense harm has been done to what was perceived as a growing trust and co-operation between alternative and orthodox medicine . |
| 6 | We all know , and indeed can see with our own eyes , the damage that has been done to the countryside in pursuit of production . |
| 7 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 8 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 9 | And with good reason — it has been done to him already ! |
| 10 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 11 | So once again its , its , its your responsibility to complain about the ill that has been done to you , yes . |
| 12 | ‘ Checking to see how much damage has been done to it , ’ the Doctor said with some irritation . |
| 13 | Once that subject has been done to death I daresay they will bring up the subject of his large family . |
| 14 | From putting them through living hell to treating them like babies , just about everything humans can think to do to animals has been done to pigs . |
| 15 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 16 | It was not yet May but it was a May morning ; the sun was shining and there was that certain sparkle in the air ; air which , despite all that has been done to it , Wycliffe still found good to breathe . |
| 17 | Here , though , is a very brief account of what has been done to date and what was found . |
| 18 | Does the hon. Gentleman have the grace to accept that that is clear evidence of the damage that has been done to our economy by a Government who have no industrial policy ? |
| 19 | Will my hon. Friend therefore give me an undertaking that he will visit Dartford early in the new year , or on Christmas day if need be , to see for himself the damage that has been done to our river and how much has been lost ? |
| 20 | Slade LJ continued by pointing out that , although the breach of a positive covenant is not always capable of remedy : Nevertheless , I would , for my part , accept … submission that the breach of a positive covenant ( whether it be a continuing breach or a once and for all breach ) will ordinarily be capable of remedy … the concept of capability of remedy for the purpose of section 146 must surely be directed to the question whether the harm that has been done to the landlord by the relevant breach is for practicable purposes capable of being retrieved . |
| 21 | From this community they have spread out and have now become a part of LE for adolescents and children of all races , though perhaps ( no research has been done to my knowledge ) only in areas where there is significant contact between the black and white communities . |
| 22 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
| 23 | Do you think I have not been following all that you have done and all that has been done to you all these months ? ’ |
| 24 | That 's a cruel thing to say , but it 's been done to me often enough in the past : you find yourself saying ordinary things and the person next to you is suddenly being witty . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's not what she 's done , it 's what 's been done to her . ’ |
| 26 | He says no word of what 's been done to him , he shows no mark , but the thing is there , and I can not account for it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever he 's been doing to you , he wo n't do it again . |
| 28 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |