Example sentences of "[be] done [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.

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1 Surprisingly little has been done on identifying the needs of managers .
2 Nothing had been done towards building the Church yard Dyke of Kilchoman .
3 And it 's all been done by getting the ball down on the floor .
4 ‘ A considerable degree of work has been done in putting the city first and giving it back to its citizens , ’ he said .
5 Surface structural analyses are done by measuring the intensities of the scattered or recoiled peaks in the TOF spectra as a function of the various angles involved .
6 They want ties that link them more to each other — through mutual defence pacts — and to the West , if it can be done without infuriating the Soviet Union .
7 For example , if we wish to delete the information that Martin is studying B742 , it can not be done without deleting the information that Prof. Harris teaches the module B742 .
8 But could n't all this be done without hunting the fox .
9 Consequently , large-scale transposing of one set of legal rules from one jurisdiction to another can not be done without considering the implications of the relevant surrounding law .
10 The need , however , was for a permanent body to deal with matters affecting Nonconformity , to encourage unity amongst the various denominations or at least to cut down on needless competition , to present a united Nonconformist ‘ witness ’ when required and to give a ‘ Nonconformist ’ answer to political questions whenever possible , that is , when this could be done without alienating the Methodists , especially the Wesleyans .
11 Chief officers have been asked to carry out a survey of people who would like to work reduced hours for less pay if it can be done without hitting the service to the public .
12 Nevertheless , despite the growing volume of publications reporting CL results , there is still much fundamental work to be done on understanding the precise causes and significance of luminescence phenomena in geological situations .
13 ‘ Some useful international work might be done on closing the fuel cycle ’ he added .
14 This can be done by barring the exit or holding the person 's arm .
15 Once it is recognized that the job of the visual system is to recode the retinal image in terms of a representation of the outside world , and that much of this encoding can be done by comparing the properties of the retinal image in different parts of the visual field using fairly straightforward rules , constancies present no problem .
16 This can be done by comparing the relative frequency of use of different coding categories in the potential risks and description conditions .
17 This could be done by using the ranks of the candidate letters to direct correction .
18 Since that can best be done by bringing the war to a speedy end , he has begun a new round of diplomacy aimed at a ceasefire and peace negotiations .
19 In principle , this can be done by calculating the velocity distribution of the reacting deuterium ions from an exact determination of both the energy and direction of emission of the neutrons .
20 This was to be done by calculating the " critical load " of acid that each ecosystem could absorb without adverse effect , and then seeking to reduce by half the gap between that and the level of acid rain in 1980 , the base year for the calculations .
21 This can most easily be done by ANDing the value passed to OPT with 6 .
22 Le Grand , for example , insists that for egalitarian policies to succeed , ‘ it is necessary to reduce the hold of the ideology of inequality on people 's values and beliefs and this can only be done by challenging the factual underpinnings of that ideology . ’
23 In this respect my position will amount to thinking that there are intrinsically prescriptive features to reality , but this will not be done by blurring the distinction between judgements about how the world is characterised and the ways in which we respond to it , as with McDowell .
24 This can be done by tipping the leading edge up , so that water only flows over the lip when a reasonable quantity is being pumped .
25 Thus one benefit of the D-He 3 fuel cycle would be lost unless D-D reactions are suppressed — and this could be done by polarising the neutrons .
26 Nevertheless , Kalmar is important as an example of what can be done by changing the technology of traditional assembly work .
27 Correction can also be done by changing the film speed between exposures on an automatic centre-weighted averaging meter-setting a slower film speed will trick the meter into underexposing a bright grain .
28 Hence , as porosity distribution and facies appear to be related , it follows that prediction of potential reservoirs can be made from facies maps , and even if facies interpretations are not available , reservoir prediction can still be done by identifying the zone of maximum thickness on an isopach map and extrapolating from it the distribution of facies and porosity .
29 This can be done by giving the electorate a more direct influence upon the policies adopted in the locality ’ .
30 Thus they can gauge how much fuel a muscle needs to move an animal far more precisely than can be done by measuring the heat it gives off .
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