Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second investigation was just one of hundreds that were done in the sixties . |
| 2 | Let those things that were done in the dark of night be revealed for your justice and that of the king in the full light of day . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe it will coming back into fashion now , I do n't know , but there is no question as to whether some of the early er research that was done into the measurement of intelligence , was in fact fair , and fairly represented . |
| 4 | The San Francisco Museum is loaning us their beautiful Dirck Bouts ‘ Madonna and Child ’ that was done from the same cartoon or pattern as ours , the main difference being that theirs has a brocade background and ours is plain . |
| 5 | er , now she said the only one we had , in fact she said the only one that 's listing is the one that was done in the Abbey , Westminster Abbey , with the Westminster choir and the London Philharmonic in nineteen eighty two |
| 6 | ‘ And yet , despite the Medicines Act and its regulations , CSM did little better with practolol once it had been marketed than was done without the legislation in the case of thalidomide ’ , we commented in 1980 . |
| 7 | This reduced price roughly equated to a 6% interest rate , which was passable in the 1960's , and was done on the recorded and explicit understanding that playing bondholders paid the full subscription ; although not obliged to do so it was regarded as a ‘ moral liberty ’ . |
| 8 | Whether in terms of German economic and monetary union , the immediate measures that the European Community will be thinking of taking , the transitional arrangements once Germany is unified , and that this was done without any rancour but was done with the feelings of directly elected parliamentarians . |
| 9 | Looking now at the actual differences in digestion between the different predator species , they can be divided into a number of categories as was done for the molars . |
| 10 | When one takes monkeys evolved for tree-top living and puts them in gravel-floored cages on the ground where they are constantly exposed to faeces , when one mixes three species of macaque in one cage , as was done at the New England centre , the stress factors multiply . |
| 11 | If a messenger be sent by the Lord Chief Justice in Eyre to take into custody some of the most substantial , as was done on the return of King Charles the Second , it may prevent further destruction . |
| 12 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 13 | However , due to insufficient financing , we not only had to ask for benefits , but also can not take on ourselves new obligations , as was done by the rest of the participants in the protocol . " |
| 14 | This importance was partly strategic : by walling off the Isthmus ( land narrows ) of Corinth , as was done in the Persian Wars and again in the hellenistic period , the Peloponnese could be turned into an island , or a tortoise with its head tucked in , as the Roman commander Flamininus put it . |