Example sentences of "[adj] do [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I was not prepared to do much of the aggressive abolishing and slashing proposed in its reports . ’
2 The South Koreans offer cheaper materials and are willing to do more of the grunt work than Americans or Europeans are .
3 It 's quicker to do most of the preparations myself though . ’
4 Since Philip realizes that it will be impossible to do away with the artifice of narration if he wants to present the results of his search , he decides instead to make the artifice obvious .
5 But I was supposed to do some of the clerical work .
6 Sometimes it 's hard to do that in the USA .
7 Rather than analyse speech mathematically it is possible to do much of the work electronically .
8 If it was possible to do that in the past , it should be possible now for British Rail to design relatively cheap crossing facilities .
9 It has been possible to do this with the help of donations from Crisis — the national charity for single homeless people ; the Law Society ; the London Boroughs Grants C Committee and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux .
10 i am certainly in favour of questioning , both on my part and that of the patient , but it is better to do this towards the end of the consultation when the regression itself is over .
11 ‘ But touring with ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ it would be great to do some of the show on my own and some with a band .
12 But if there is someone else waiting with you , and you feel shy doing some of the more noticeable ones , disappear to the cloakroom for a few minutes and do them there .
13 But since brachiopods were unable to do many of the things that bivalves do very efficiently , it would be unwise to attribute the decline of the brachiopods to diversification of the bivalves .
14 Nigel was , by this time , unable to do much in the way of hulking and heaving , owing to having suffered from the fashionable slipped disc eighteen years earlier , which still had to be watched .
15 The accountant will be happy to do this on the band 's behalf .
16 Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail .
17 I think they 'll have to recognize that it 's gon na be roll your sleeves up and we 're go we are n't gon na be able to do all of the things we wanted to do , and that 's the price we 're gon na have to pay .
18 First because it er offers the Government quite a good reason for dropping the bill altogether , er a er and bowing to parliamentary opinion in doing so that 's not a shameful thing to do , er if it had been able to do that on the other hand it would have the benefit of in=incorporating in its own proposals a measure of continuity and experience which are no there already .
19 First thing is that they would n't actually be able to do that for the reasons you 've stated .
20 In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries .
21 So we would n't be able to do that until the autumn , would we ?
22 yeah , I work on these other cars and I 'll be able to do that in the meantime
23 You will be able to do much of the installation with the power on , but turn it off before you make the final connection to the circuit that will supply the lights .
24 Saga have n't been able to do much with the abrasive 1954 recording quality , though by comparison with the LP some of the aural grit has disappeared .
25 ‘ Eighteen men wo n't be able to do much in the forest , but get torches and search from your camp to the South Lawn road .
26 You wo n't be able to do much in the fields , it 'll be far too wet for a week or two .
27 Not only should the parent feel able to express upset at the child 's behaviour but equally the child needs to be able to do this towards the parent .
28 If they were able to do this over the course of the whole meal-time they received a sticker on the chart .
29 When you are able to do this with the major scales , try the various minors , modes and arpeggios , mixing them up as they might occur in a chord progression .
30 ‘ It is also desirable that members of our senior squad not in the first team are able to continue playing at a reasonable level , and they have not been able to do this in the past . ’
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