Example sentences of "[verb] do [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 2 | Despite the damage man has done to the Asian elephant , he has long had a close partnership with the great animal founded if not on love then certainly on respect . |
| 3 | The strongest reason for voting Labour was indeed its commitment to improving welfare , repairing the damage Thatcherism has done to the social fabric . |
| 4 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 5 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 6 | Now I 've dwelt for a moment on my own experience because I think it epitomizes that of the Labour Party as a whole from to John , the G M B has been a tower of strength always there to assist not only with money and resources , but also with advice and support and on behalf of my parliamentary colleagues , I want to thank the union for all it is , it has done for the Labour Party . |
| 7 | That 's what we er we want , that 's what we require , because do n't forget old people er , in fact our present national treasurer , a Mrs Mary , is now serving as the national treasurer and has done for the last thirty five years . |
| 8 | Switchboard as an organization has probably had some effect on more of us , as callers and as volunteers , than any other single campaign or group has done in the recent history of lesbian and gay rights in this country . |
| 9 | Besides , such a prolific writer could hardly be ignored and his popularity moved through many decades by its own momentum , rather as Enid Blyton 's has done in the middle years of the present century . |
| 10 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 11 | Looking at the world , and in particular Europe , today it is hard to see how anything the CIA has done in the past 40 years has significantly affected the map of freedom . |
| 12 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 13 | 8.38 to 8.40 ) , that , should ( as the Act has done by the previous section ) the currency of a licence be extended to three years , it was desirable that a licensing board should have some form of sanction against the licence-holder where the premises were being misconducted , or where their suitability had deteriorated , and that such a sanction should be the power to suspend a licence . |
| 14 | ‘ I can see what CAMRA has done from the local pubs . |
| 15 | They cause objects to seem to shift in position by only a small amount , which is what objects plausibly can be expected to do in the real world . |
| 16 | ( This undoubtedly has to do with the resultative nature of the passive . ) |
| 17 | The first has to do with the individual animal 's past history . |
| 18 | Metaphor is not just a matter of semantic features — it has to do with the above large-scale schemas . |
| 19 | A third reason has to do with the non-experimental character of most social research . |
| 20 | ‘ Still another difficulty has to do with the specific words the counsellor uses . |
| 21 | The desire for natural religion reflected an awareness that religious faith has to do with the inner life of human beings , that it connects up with profound needs , drives and searchings at the core of our existence . |
| 22 | It has to do with the perfect fusion of many things : the refinement and effortless muscularity of the six-cylinder and V8 engines ; the harmonious balance of the springing and damping ; the flawless construction ; the quality of interior appointments ; the strength of the body shell ; the grace of the body line . |
| 23 | There is another potential drawback ; it has to do with the fluent child 's love of ( or abuse of ) debate . |
| 24 | This principle in Hinduism is called ‘ Pancha Bhootas ’ and has to do with the five states of creative substances and their relationship to the five sensory faculties . |
| 25 | Part of the reason they do so is cultural and has to do with the elective affinity of their habituses with postmodern culture . |
| 26 | The second kind has to do with the conceptual coherence of the theory that the empirical investigation is designed to support . |
| 27 | The story of temperature measurement has to do with the experimental determination of the quantitative laws of expansion as well as a greater theoretical understanding of heat and thermo- dynamics . |
| 28 | It has to do with the pervasive corruption in public life , now at last being revealed in Milan , which favours large , one-off projects over mere maintenance because they allow more opportunities for douceurs . |
| 29 | One of the interesting questions that can be asked about the curriculum has to do with the relative power and influence of these various actors in the planning process ; for example , in their study , Boys et al . |
| 30 | The lack of priority given to teaching singing to ordinands is explained by one respondent who wrote , ‘ Part of the problem with the teaching of singing has to do with the relative infrequency with which the Sunday Offices are now sung … |