Example sentences of "[noun] do [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is word that 's coming out now of what one department did by a new member of staff . |
| 2 | If they did so — as Antoine Pinay did in a famous " scene " in November 1959 — they were rebuffed . |
| 3 | In fact , such images do to a large extent reflect both the climatic and the historical reality of Siberia . |
| 4 | These tendencies were carried much further by the younger men , Gibbons , Coprario , the younger Ferrabosco , Thomas Lupo , and a number of others , who would base a short section on a popular morris-dance tune ( as Gibbons does in a four-part viol fantasy ) and use motives more clear-cut in rhythmic profile sequentially as Giovanni Gabrieli does . |
| 5 | Two important points would , I think , emerge from such a study : the damage done by a misguided obsession with conformity in centralised educational systems , and the importance of private money — free money ! — in breaking down bureaucratic barriers . |
| 6 | If only she could lose her puppy fat and get her hair done at a proper salon instead of having it cut by Ivy Tucker who lived down the road and who did hairdressing for pin money . |
| 7 | By s.24 goods are stolen for the purposes of handling if any one or four conditions is fulfilled : ( a ) they have been stolen contrary to s.1 ; ( b ) they have been obtained by deception contrary to s.15 ; ( c ) they have been obtained by blackmail contrary to s.21 ; ( d ) they have been subject to an act done in a foreign country which was both a crime in that country and had it occurred in England , would have been theft , obtaining by deception , or blackmail in this country . |
| 8 | Having you family portrait done by a professional photographer gives you more than just a reminder of what your children looked like as they grew up , because a professional has all the best equipment necessary for a top-quality portrait . |
| 9 | It is sensible for a contractor to apply for payment for work done to a specified date to limit the amount of funding required . |
| 10 | Within Lakatos 's framework , scientific methodology must be discussed from two points of view , one concerning the work done within a single research programme , the other concerning the comparison of the merits of competing research programmes . |
| 11 | Work done from a feminist perspective has challenged the theoretical frameworks , key assumptions , methods and findings of the traditional social sciences . |
| 12 | We saw above that the work done by a chemical system frequently results in expansion . |
| 13 | The objectionable characteristics Marx finds in alienated work are , almost all of them , as much present in work done by a self-employed person as in work done by an employee for an employer . |
| 14 | If a friend has had work done by a particular building firm and found them reliable , honest and efficient it is likely that you will too . |
| 15 | That 's what Jim Springer and Steve Wickham did to a derelict old building in Lower Swells . |
| 16 | He says , We want this job done in a tenth of the time . |
| 17 | Valuable experience can be gained in small agencies anywhere because you may have to turn your hand to any job that needs doing at a given moment . |
| 18 | The reason is quite simple : it is not a route to do on a single rope . |
| 19 | Those now providing voluntary humanitarian relief are merely doing of their own free will and on a small scale what we hope citizens of the rich nations will as soon as possible compel their states to do on a massive scale . ’ |
| 20 | Buus does in a few cases revert to earlier material or in one instance , as we have seen , achieve cohesion at the expense of monotony by basing a whole piece on a single idea . |
| 21 | In linguistics , a defined class of written marks or letters of the alphabet , standing in the same relationship to a grapheme as a phone does to a segmental phoneme . |
| 22 | What different activities do people do as a major part of their holidays ? |
| 23 | Just because of the nature of the work that internal auditors do on a day-to-day basis , their dual responsibilities provide more difficulty than most . |
| 24 | I think there is only one jumper , world record holder Javier Satomayor , who would be capable of doing what Steve did in a first outing . ’ |
| 25 | Of course , you can change the fellow , as for instance Margaret Allingham did over a good many years with her Mr Campion , who started out as a form of imitation Scarlet Pimpernel and ended as an acute and compassionate observer of human follies . |
| 26 | Then followed the painstaking process of finding materials that would stand up to the tough usage and getting the whole thing done at a reasonable price . |
| 27 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 28 | Patients were still taking omeprazole when they had the tests done for a second time . |
| 29 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 30 | ‘ Parents may think the best thing to do with a nervous child is to tell him or her not to worry . |