Example sentences of "[verb] done [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
| 2 | Interestingly , the projected shortfall in the availability of skilled labour has done more for equal opportunity employment than more than a decade of educational programmes . |
| 3 | To have surrendered all power over the issue of her coinage is significant enough , for reasons already argued ; to have done so for good must constitute the act of transfer of sovereignty by the British Parliament to another power . |
| 4 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 5 | Nesta Webster , however , who was a member of the grand council for three months in 1926 and 1927 , thought that the BF had done more for British patriotism than all the other middle-class organizations put together , and soon after leaving established a Patriots Enquiry Centre , a kind of Die-hard library where the ultra-right could study the socialist menace . |