Example sentences of "[noun] were do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these can be confirmed and if the tappings were done with the authority of a Home Office warrant , it suggests that the guidelines were being interpreted with a remarkable degree of latitude . |
| 2 | Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks . |
| 5 | All experiments were done with the crystal at room temperature . |
| 6 | These things were done without the knowledge of parents , needless to say . |
| 7 | She just accepted the way things were done in the Army . |
| 8 | 1963 ) and a number of studies were done on the reduced sexual responsiveness to familiar members of the opposite sex in rodents ( reviews in Dewsbury , 1982 ; D'Udine & Alleva , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All data entry and processing were done in the study headquarters in Navrongo with IBM PS/2 computers and dBase III+ software . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Infusions into the transverse colon were performed with the colonscope about 10 cm proximal to the splenic flexure , while those into the sigmoid colon were done with the colonoscope about 10 cm proximal to the rectosigmoid junction . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most of the stately saloon 's 74,000 miles were done before the Second World War . |
| 19 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |