Example sentences of "[be] do in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This has been done in the United States ( Hall , 1973 ) .
2 Yes , erm , a great deal of work has been done in the United States on this trend , in particular by juvenile fire setters as they refer to them .
3 The new system for arranging Eurobond issues is derived from the way new issues have been done in the US for many years .
4 The packing had been done in the basement to avoid break ages , and the two crates stood at the foot of the stairs .
5 All this has been done in the name of spurious progress : to create jobs in rural communities , provide employment .
6 If the last chapter dealt with the freedom of form of the trust , this one deals with its freedom from formulae : forms of action were not promulgated in advance , as had been done in the edict of the urban praetor .
7 This seems to have been done in the interests of retaining the theoreticians ' assumption of panmixia ( Charlesworth , 1980 ) .
8 This has not been done in the interests of achieving a restrictively formalist , text-immanent reading of the story , nor is it suggested that contextual detail does not have a part to play in a multidimensional , interpretative process .
9 Work had been done in the Treasury before the war on the introduction of a counter-cyclical element into public spending to help stabilise employment .
10 A literary text is , manifestly , the product of a particular historical situation , and may be interpreted in the light of its origins and initial reception , as has been done in the discussions of Romantic literature by Marilyn Butler and Jerome J. McGann , who can be called New Historicists minus the ideological charge .
11 The abolition of car tax was a bold move but it should have been done in the Budget last March , as the motor industry had asked .
12 The way that this has been done in the past is the subject of the next chapter ; the way that it might be done in the future is the justification for this book .
13 Legislation had been tried before , from the late fourteenth century onwards , but more effort was made to enforce the 1651 Act than had been done in the past .
14 With no high level of education they lay claim instead to ‘ experience ’ — an intimate familiarity with the way things have been done in the past — and ‘ common sense ’ — a rich fund of practical knowledge about the job and its problems which inculcates a sense of the reasonable .
15 We may try , as has been done in the past , to arm prosecutors and judges with better procedures for discovering police mistakes .
16 The distinction has to be considered at least to some extent because only by identifying what has been done in the past can one see how deficiencies remain to be corrected in the future research agenda .
17 Is it the Secretary of State 's intention that the current senior chief inspector should publish his annual report in February , as has been done in the past , or is it his intention , as Secretaries of State managed to do in 1983 and again in 1987 , to delay publication of that report until after the general election ?
18 These should not be intended to duplicate the deed of indemnity but to obtain information as to possible taxation problems and where things have been done in the past which could , depending on what is done in the future , give problems after completion .
19 He says the basic idea is if you understand what 's going wrong then you can design any therapy sensibly not on the hit and miss basis it 's been done in the past .
20 It resulted in the erm extra requirement for security which does happen to which Mr has referred and I I think it 's it 's very very important to realise that if that three party cooperation can be achieved as it should be , bearing in mind what Simon says that we are going to have to do this , with horrendous problems in the youth and community project in the future and we would be failing completely in our duty , not just to the people of Highfields , but to the people of this whole county if we simply allowed politics , as has been done in the past , to lead to entrenched positions and the idea of simply saying to the director , we are in a mess therefore will you please deal with it all is I think wildly irresponsible and I 'm very very surprised indeed that erm that point should be put .
21 Everybody says that 's what 's going to happen , but erm when it 's been done in the past I 've not had any figures produced that indicate that the service provision has had to fall off because of increased charges .
22 Although much work has been done in the decades since those words were written , it is still true to say that many texts in printed form do not reflect the contents of the original manuscripts with complete accuracy , although more recent printed transcriptions tend to be reliable , not least because they have usually been scanned by a number of scholars before publication .
23 Not too much has been done in the mountains , hardly surprising given the length of time they have been dry , but Dai Lampard snatched a great ascent with Mother of Mercy E5 6a .
24 ‘ The damage that has been done in the pursuit of production is the direct result of treating farming as if it were simply another business ’ BRIAN REDHEAD
25 [ These proposals were widely opposed , and they were abandoned by the new Conservative government in 1979 , although much groundwork had been done in the meantime on the legal and administrative aspects of implementing them ( see 1979 Benn , 1979 Dickson ) . ]
26 It had been intended to number the main service 109B and 109W , for Blackfriars and Westminster respectively , as had been done in the case of the Wimbledon services , but there was a change in heart at the last minute and the buses were delivered with blinds numbered 109 only .
27 This has been done in the case of a number of last ( Ipswichian ) interglacial deposits in Britain to give a clearer idea of sea level at that period and the amount of East Anglian downwarping since ( Sparks and West , 1971 ) .
28 The main impediments to the free flow of people are those placed there to facilitate the free flow of motorised traffic , particularly road crossing barriers , signs embedded in the pavement and steps and ramps to carry the walker over or under the roadway. little seems to have been done in the way of formal schemes of assessment of pedestrian problems or of priorities for maintenance or design .
29 Not be critical and unpleasant about everything that 's been done in the way of traffic calming .
30 The acquisition contractor was Geoteam Exploration , using the vessel Nordic Explorer to deploy four 3000 metre streamers — the first time this had been done in the North Sea .
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