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

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31 Already much work has been done on the impact of the single market on voluntary organisations .
32 Some of these have been crossed , have been done on the Hexham Spinal Sports Club T T
33 Chairman having detected the arsons , I wonder if the Chief Officer knew whether a study had ever been done on the background of those people generally , nationally who er , caused that scene and whether any steps would be f if they were confined to certain people with certain backgrounds , or certain part of histories , whether anything could be brought to bear ?
34 Since then little work has been done on the loco by the small group of owners who like everyone else have been hampered by lack of funds .
35 As a second , hypothetical example , suppose that I was keen to make some contribution to human physiology or anatomy , and suppose I noted that very little work has been done on the weight of human earlobes .
36 At one time push-ups were done on the knuckles but since medical evidence proved that this could cause severe metacarpal damage they have been done on the flat of the palms .
37 An excellent example is the work that has been done on the hippocampus .
38 Huxley , the exponent of laboratory physiology , won a great victory over Owen when he contrived to get a statue of Darwin placed on the main staircase of the Natural History Museum ; but justice has been done with the passage of time , and Owen 's statue is now in pride of place in his building .
39 Mr Kennedy said that no deal had been done with the Government other than on an understanding that today 's scheduled business should not be knocked out by allowing yesterday 's session to continue beyond lunchtime today .
40 What has in effect been done with the Form Program is that , instead of the whole garment shape being entered as one program as is normally the case , the shape has been divided into sections that coincide with the stitch pattern lengths to be knitted with each worked out as a separate program .
41 Even jackets , which could have been done with the weaving technique , give more of a fabric which can then be lined .
42 However , it should not be thought that any assistance given to a competitor by the employee is necessarily a breach of his duty , for it may have been done with the employer 's authority , though this will be a rare occurrence .
43 The visitor will see that much work has indeed been done at the south eastern side of Levers Water .
44 On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare .
45 Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent .
46 The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance .
47 The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor .
48 ( 8 ) Has any work to the seller 's knowledge been done at the property requiring planning permission or Building Regulations consent ?
49 Slade LJ continued by pointing out that , although the breach of a positive covenant is not always capable of remedy : Nevertheless , I would , for my part , accept … submission that the breach of a positive covenant ( whether it be a continuing breach or a once and for all breach ) will ordinarily be capable of remedy … the concept of capability of remedy for the purpose of section 146 must surely be directed to the question whether the harm that has been done to the landlord by the relevant breach is for practicable purposes capable of being retrieved .
50 Seeing that no serious injury had been done to the Chamden player , Darren settled on grabbing the referee 's notebook and booking himself .
51 Ignored by the guard , who was running towards the house after being startled into wakefulness , the Doctor eyed the cloud of grey smoke critically , wondering how much damage would have been done to the villa itself .
52 The attack was over , but how on earth could Shelley know what damage had been done to the heart muscle ?
53 The National Trust is currently undertaking a structural survey which will reveal the full scale of the damage , but it is already known that extensive harm has been done to the brickwork , windows and terrace .
54 Refusal ‘ Clyde Walcott , the match referee , was entirely satisfied that nothing illegal had been done to the ball at the Oval and we want to point out that there was no suggestion of it being tampered with . ’
55 Anyone capable of sight-leading a route protected by bolts without clipping them has the right to remove them ( a regular bolt hole closed by a rock dust/epoxy mix is virtually undetectable , and no meaningful harm will have been done to the crag environment ) .
56 We all know , and indeed can see with our own eyes , the damage that has been done to the countryside in pursuit of production .
57 Similarly , little justice has been done to the CSW approach in the study , though a prospective approach is likely to yield more comparable data .
58 The problem is often not just whether it is genuine or fake , but rather how much is original , and what has subsequently been done to the object , when , by whom and why .
59 For the rest of the day there were almost continuous air attacks , but as dusk crept over the scene it was discovered that no damage had been done to the LRDG patrol .
60 As a result , in each instance , the harm that might have been done to the environment was at least delayed or controlled .
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