Example sentences of "[be] done [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother General 's view was that enough had been done for the child already . |
| 2 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 3 | This has been done for the Shell Better Britain Campaign 's excellent ‘ Getting Help ’ guide . |
| 4 | The bearer of this document , Agatha de Courcy , must be given every aid and assistance for what she has done has been done for the sake of the Crown and the good of our realm . ’ |
| 5 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 6 | In these the selection has been done for the trainer . |
| 7 | Do you see what I mean , see most of this has been done for the convenience of the Quick Save Supermarkets on that er , I should say . |
| 8 | Very little research has been done on the literature guides and only one on their use by students , so all we have is speculation . |
| 9 | While many other studies have been done on the development of sleep , their results do not contradict the norms established in Florida , and the principal advantage of the work of the Williams group is that their sample sizes were appreciably large — at least twenty in each of thirteen age groups , and a consistent system of recording and scoring was used over all these subjects . |
| 10 | This means that work has been done on the system . |
| 11 | No recent research has been done on the subject but my own experience suggests GP racing produces heart and breath rates matching those experienced during prolonged high speed running . |
| 12 | Yet , as Newton ( 1976 , p. 148 ) reminds us , while the ‘ dictatorship of the official ’ thesis has ‘ a certain commonsense plausibility … it has very little empirical evidence to support it … because little research has been done on the subject ’ . |
| 13 | Tourism and its influence on the environment is clearly of great interest to CPRW , however no recent work has been done on the subject . |
| 14 | For example , Spears ( 1982 ) states that little research has been done on the cost of rehabilitation of severely eroded hillsides . |
| 15 | Little has been done on the ecology of deep-sea species apart from observations on certain conspicuous species such as Ophiomusium lymani in the course of more general studies ( Barham et al. |
| 16 | Though a certain amount of work has been done on the history of Africa 's media , there is room for research on a far larger scale . |
| 17 | As far as we can tell , no work has yet been done on the psychology of the train-spotter . |
| 18 | The harmful effects of unemployment on mental and physical health are well established , although much less work has been done on the effectiveness of various interventions . |
| 19 | Here again , a large amount of work has been done on the analysis of written discourse for students of ESP and EAP ( see , for example , Selinker , Tarone , and Hanzeli 1981 ) , but there is no reason why the same techniques can not be applied more widely to the production and processing of writing of more general interest . |
| 20 | All these studies acknowledge that Mills and Boon is a ‘ phenomenon in publishing ’ but little work has been done on the marketing and production side of a phenomenon which claimed a readership of 250 million worldwide during 1984 . |
| 21 | We need now , therefore , to consider the empirical work that has been done on the topic of acquired distinction ( and on acquired non-distinctiveness or equivalence ) . |
| 22 | Now , all of those criticisms come about on the work that 's been done which has mostly been done on the recognition of characters and letters . |
| 23 | By the 1970s , the " West Indian language problem " had been probed and discussed by educators and policy makers , but still rather little actual research had been done on the language of the Caribbeans . |
| 24 | Already much work has been done on the impact of the single market on voluntary organisations . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | An excellent example is the work that has been done on the hippocampus . |
| 30 | 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 . |