Example sentences of "[be] do in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has been shown that few of the innovations of this period were without precedent in the policies of earlier years , and that much of the crucial thinking about the form these new institutions should take had been done in the inter war period . |
| 2 | Perhaps radio is now fitted inside the crash helmets , I never understood why this could not have been done in the first place , along the lines of the radios issued to policemen or the earphones that , thank God , are popular with those who can not live without constant noise . |
| 3 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 4 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
| 5 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 6 | This could also have been done in the penultimate chord , but we have chosen to avoid it by using a bass ( E ) which is mildly dissonant with an upper note ( F ) . ) |
| 7 | So savour it while it is still new , because the developers have had the conservationists looking keenly over their shoulders during the building work , and everything has been done in the best possible taste . |
| 8 | It may seem odd to complain of an excess of refinement in a film that features talking anuses and rubber monsters shaped like bottoms , but it does all seem to have been done in the best possible taste . |
| 9 | Most work has been done in the visible and near-UV regions ( wavelengths 700–200 nm ; frequencies 14 000–50 000 cm -1 ) where photographic recording is easy , and glass or quartz optics are ideal . |
| 10 | This may have been done in the Middle Ages , but many warrens seem to date from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 11 | ‘ How she was able to effect all this ’ , her nephew writes in his Memoir , ‘ is surprising , for she had no separate study to repair to , and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room , subject to all kinds of casual interruptions . |
| 12 | However , it could be argued , as has been done in the related literature on labour hoarding ( see Greer/Rhoades , 1977 ) , that establishments in a dominant market position might develop the organisational capacity to maintain more stable employment in the face of demand fluctuations , and WIRS does provide management 's assessment of sensitivity of output to price changes by competitors — a good indicator of the degree of market dominance . |
| 13 | Much has been done in the past few months , but more needs to be done . |
| 14 | Although a great deal of work has been done in the historical demography of the developed world relatively little research has been carried out in relation to the corresponding ( i.e. pre-demographic transition ) period in the Third World . |
| 15 | Works had been done in the adjoining street by the Commissioners for executing the Act , the expenses of which , under the provisions of their Act , they charged on the owners of the adjoining houses . |
| 16 | Most work on fossil dolphins has been done in the Northern Hemisphere , and little is yet known about the South . |
| 17 | They left it late last year despite their money , but look what they 're doing in the Premier League . ’ |
| 18 | Apparently what they 're doing in the private sector taking er ooh what do you call them ? |
| 19 | Well they understand what they 're doing in the same way as they understand what they 're doing when they 're watching a video . |
| 20 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 21 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 22 | What 've you been doing in the last five months that 's put on the weight ? |
| 23 | As the analysis of the Volta Dam project suggests , economic transnational practices in the Third World are largely what the TNCs are doing in the economic , the political and the cultural-ideological spheres . |
| 24 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 25 | Selecting from the menu can be done in the usual way , by moving the highlight bar with the arrow keys ( or mouse ) and then pressing the ENTER key to make your selection . |
| 26 | This must be done in the correct order . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that more could be done in the first instance to prevent offences ? |
| 28 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 29 | If it needed to be done , could it be done in the private or public sector ? |
| 30 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |