Example sentences of "[be] do [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Detective Inspector Alan Brown said it had been done to create more addicts but resulted in a trebling of the number of fatalities . |
2 | More could have been done to allay Japanese fears regarding the survival of the imperial institution in a new constitutional form ; this was not achieved because Truman and his Secretary of State , James F. Byrnes , wished to permit the Japanese no room to cause difficulty over the surrender terms . |
3 | This had been done to give greater flexibility for time off to do the farm work . |
4 | Little work has so far been done to link strategic possibilities with share valuations . |
5 | Are you satisfied that everything could have been done to prevent this man doing this sort of thing . |
6 | While titles and locations have been placed in retrieval fields , this has been done to emphasize these elements and to stress the ideas of sources of information , seen as an important concept in history teaching . |
7 | Women 's inferior economic position must affect their access to the better places , but no work has been done to substantiate this point . |
8 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
9 | And practically nothing has been done to establish effective machinery of joint conference between the representative organizations entitled to speak for industry as a whole . |
10 | Yet not very much seems to have been done to make that wall unclimbable . |
11 | A modification has been done to correct this problem and further trials will shortly be carried out with the modified burner and using steam supplied from another locomotive through a flexible steam hose to atomize the fuel . |
12 | The risks and benefits of adding intravenous heparin to aspirin and thrombolysis are unknown and will remain so until trials are done to address this question adequately . |
13 | We can also identify what others are doing to play high status , and control our reactions . |
14 | ‘ To paint Darlington as a jobs blackspot is not just factually wrong , it is also very damaging to the work the council and I are doing to attract new investment . ’ |
15 | ‘ Something must be done to save these jobs … |
16 | Therefore , it is my opinion that nothing can be done to engender additional assistance of the type requested unless the State Department secures authority therefore … |
17 | But much can be done to teach new music by one person using voice and gesture alone . |
18 | I stress again that where there has been unlawful subletting which has determined ( and which has not been waived ) there has been a breach which at common law entitles the lessor to re-enter : nothing can be done to remedy that breach : the expiry of the subterm has not been annulled or remedied the breach : in such a case the lessor plainly need not , in his section 146 notice , call upon the lessee to remedy the breach which is not capable of remedy , and is free to issue his writ for possession , the possibility of relief remaining . |
19 | But as the 1993 season gets into swing it is becoming clear that little , if anything , will be done to breathe new life into the domestic game . |
20 | There will always be an element of the old school that insists that proper cooking must be done using traditional methods , but increasingly , chefs , catering managers and kitchen staff in general are putting their trust in 1990s ' technology to enable them to carry out their work . |
21 | All of this should be done using simple instructions to the computer which are as close to normal English as possible . |
22 | ABOVE Wet sieving for small plant and animal remains can be done using simple equipment ; on this excavation , sieves , a hosepipe and a dustbin are being used . |
23 | Something had to be done to tame this circuit , and it was … the " Ring " was brought down to size . |
24 | However , it remains a hard task to convince society that much more should be done to create fairer employment opportunities for the disabled . |
25 | Further trials need to be done to resolve that uncertainty . |
26 | General ‘ political economy ’ explanations must be correct in locating such developments within complex shifts in the production process , industrial infrastructure , and labour force requirements occurring at a particular stage of advanced industrialization — though much work needs to be done to define these shifts more precisely . |
27 | Sir : Can nothing be done to stop these wildcat strikes by escalators on the Underground ? |
28 | The victim , who has worked in the area for 25 years , said : ‘ Something must be done to stop these hooligans . ’ |
29 | And Virgin 's boss says there 's a great deal that has to be done to stop more deaths in the crisis zone . |
30 | We must address what can be done to stop this kind of thing happening again . |