Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] do by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No harm was done by the apparent lack of male influence . |
| 2 | Most of the work was done by the slaves who , provided they did not try to escape , were often reasonably treated although their quarters were cramped and poorly finished . |
| 3 | Despite this , quite a lot of good work was done by the eighty fourth-year " leavers " ( aged I 4-plus ) who were the trial group for the project . |
| 4 | In the early days there was , he felt , a ‘ gentleman 's club ’ atmosphere about the CNAA , and the main work was done by the boards — with no real role for the higher level committees . |
| 5 | All the interviewing was done by the author and was an informal discussion rather than formal questioning . |
| 6 | Gohar Kordy writes : ‘ What would have been the work of psychotherapy in the West for years was done by the family in these 40 days ’ . |
| 7 | In Europe and in North America automatic coal hoists were introduced and became yet another stark element in the silhouette of many stations , but where labour was cheap , loading was done by the most primitive of methods , by men running up ramps with baskets on their heads . |
| 8 | There may well have been something lacking in the lives of the millions but that need had to be catered for and the catering was done by the ingenious and indefatigable army of commercial opportunists whose energy and boldness tell us an enormous amount about that age . |
| 9 | After the HN Unit Specifications had been refined by the consultative networks , an initial edit was done by the NDO and scrutiny carried out by the Steering Group or a sub committee of it . |
| 10 | like most of the the child care was done by the girls , but there was actually a few of the boys that decided they wanted to work in the nurseries and o eh the five that done , there 's actually two that we know of a are actually doing child care as a career . |
| 11 | The restoration of the clock-case was done by the Museums ' furniture conservator , while the mechanisms of the clock were repaired and restored by , head of the engineering conservation section . |
| 12 | Most of the work on the land was done by the villa slaves under the eagle eye of the owner , and it was the way he organised his labourers which produced the better results . |
| 13 | The placing of each housewife in a satisfaction category was done by the interviewer-researcher , on the basis of the overall interview response ; further details for the methodologically curious are given in Appendix I. |
| 14 | Some of the damage was done by the thousands of casks of rum which were stored in the town , and which exploded in the heat and caught fire immediately . |
| 15 | But when asked by the coroner is it the obvious conclusion that the damage was done by the forceps … he answered probably yes . |