Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] do in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibilities for disputes of the latter kind of course have increased since this study was done in the 1960s because of rising rates of divorce and remarriage , and we need up-to-date data on how people handle the range of claims of inheritance in families where there is a complex series of step-relationships . |
| 2 | The court has been today hearing evidence from witnesses building up a picture of what the who defendants were doing in the hours before the alleged abduction of James Bolger . |
| 3 | Only when the inevitable standing ovation was over , and their work was done in the conference hall , could they relax . |
| 4 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 5 | What work was done in the United Kingdom on raiding and amphibious operations had been mainly carried out by the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( ISTDC ) and the Royal Marines ' Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation ( MNBDO ) , the Royal Navy being responsible for amphibious operations . |
| 6 | The probability is that a large part , even most , of the work was done in the madhouse , and that Smart finished it after his release . |
| 7 | Much work was done in the 1790s at the Royal Naval Hospital , Greenwich , and in 1810 work began on the pediment there , which was forty feet long , designed by Benjamin West [ q.v. ] and Joseph Panzetta , and made in Coade stone . |
| 8 | If we look at the actual numbers of cystoscopies performed you will you see that there were the vast majority of work was done in the lower and intermediate risk group patients er and the positive er cystoscopy rate erm was much lower in the lower risk group , as you would expect , than in the higher risk group . |
| 9 | The test was done in the fasting state ( >six hours ) . |
| 10 | Morse interrupted Lewis 's thoughts : ‘ Shall I tell you exactly what our leader was doing in the betting-shop ? |
| 11 | She just accepted the way things were done in the Army . |
| 12 | If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance . |
| 13 | Well this was a Manpower Board that came round and they was inspecting erm what people were doing in the particular factory at and if they thought you 'd be more useful somewhere else then they 'd direct you to another factory . |
| 14 | All data entry and processing were done in the study headquarters in Navrongo with IBM PS/2 computers and dBase III+ software . |
| 15 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 16 | Tobie spared a thought for Cairo , and Mamelukes , and Tzani-bey , and wondered if Nicholas knew what the emir was doing in the Mameluke camp outside Famagusta . |
| 17 | Some of the early work in this area was done in the 1970s by Schofield , who used a simple system of asking users to complete a slip of paper for each ‘ failure ’ to locate an item at the shelf . |
| 18 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 19 | What was done by the Whips was done in the name of the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | On Saturday nights we had a bath in a tin tub by the fire , but for the rest of the week , washing was done in the bedrooms . |
| 21 | We all worked extremely hard on the project , and the band was really ahead of its time compared to what the heavy metal scene in Washington DC was doing in the early '80s ; we were faster and more complex than the majority of the other outfits in the area . |
| 22 | But we found out that most of the vandalism was done in the daytime when we were away . |
| 23 | The main damage was done in the first twelve months , when GDP fell by 3 per cent , industrial production by 9 per cent , and unemployment doubled to 2.5 million . |
| 24 | But the original damage was done in the Fifties and it was the product of ignorance and laziness and bloody-mindedness . |
| 25 | A contract is an international supply contract if three conditions are satisfied : ( a ) it is a contract for the sale of goods or it is one under , or in pursuance of which , possession or ownership of goods passes ; and ( b ) it is made by parties whose places of business ( or habitual residence , if they have no place of business ) are in the territories of different states ; and ( c ) either ( i ) at the time the contract is made , the goods are in the course of carriage , or will be carried , between the territories of two states ; or ( ii ) the acts constituting offer and acceptance were done in the territories of different states ; or ( iii ) the contract provides for the goods to be moved to the territory of a state other than that in which the offer and acceptance took place . |
| 26 | There was no TV centre and the only filming was done in the pub by the local university 's media studies department . |
| 27 | Gel retardation with the distal E2F binding site from the adenovirus E2A promoter ( -71 to -50 region ) and the DP-1 derivatives was done in the absence of salmon sperm DNA ( tracks 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 ) . |