Example sentences of "[be] done [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , some preliminary cobbing could well have been done as the ore was brought out to grass . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , we think there is still a great deal to be done before the Bar is adequately recognised abroad , and gains the full benefit of such recognition in the now hugely enlarged international legal markets . |
| 3 | Sally-Anne tossed her head at this , and repeated that it was all nothing — ‘ And really you should not make such a fuss over so little ’ — but all the same she was happy to let Matey help her up to bed ; she felt strangely weak , and the thought of Sunday lunch and washing up , and all the work to be done before the day was over , made her feel worse than ever . |
| 4 | Finally , once the client has agreed the schedule with the agency ( which may well be done before the content of the ads is finally agreed ) , it is the media person 's job to go out into the marketplace and buy the press space , the poster sites or the TV , radio or cinema spots . |
| 5 | But he admits there 's still a lot of work to be done before the Commission does itself out of a job . |
| 6 | A cracking performance at the Lytham Trophy , where he finished fourth , could have heightened his chances , but a great deal more needs to be done before the side is chosen at the end of June . |
| 7 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |
| 8 | This could not be done where the contract was for the sale of purely generic goods . |
| 9 | ( This can actually be done because the corner and edge pieces can be removed , leaving the centres attached together , and one can put only corner pieces into corner locations , etc . ) |
| 10 | This can be done when the wash is still wet . |
| 11 | You should select of the following options which may only be done when the combination of old and new mail is not zero : — |
| 12 | The immediate political problem for Whitehall and Westminster is what should be done when the value of the pound sterling falls internationally and our subscription to CERN and other organisations goes up accordingly . |
| 13 | In other circumstances all that needs to be done if the transaction is a domestic one , whereby , say , a shareholder transfers his holding as a gift to a member of his family or sells it to an acquaintance , is for the transferor to hand over to the transferee a signed share transfer together with the share certificate which the transferee will lodge with the company and the register will then be amended by adding the transferee and noting that the transferor has ceased to be a member or shareholder in respect of the shares . |
| 14 | Neither the court nor a Chief Constable could compel an officer to do acts which can only lawfully be done if the officer himself with reasonable cause suspects that a breach of the peace has occurred or is imminently likely to occur . |
| 15 | With a chairman , two frontbenches and whips , these committees are microcosms of the Commons with no special facilities for fact-finding or for doing anything other than what would normally be done if the bill had been kept on the floor of the House . |
| 16 | How can this be done if the patient is 50 miles or so from home ? |
| 17 | Hall defended the action he had taken and proposed that ‘ during the recess , to look at the designs which had been approved by the judges , and endeavour to ascertain the expense of carrying them out ; but nothing further would be done until the House was informed on that point ’ . |
| 18 | But nothing could be done until the MoD had considered the Devonport bid , which was submitted last month in spite of the refitting having been earmarked for Fife in the so-called core programme for the Scottish yard . |
| 19 | The dodgiest deals-discretionary , and big account trades — were done whilst the chairman of an OTC firm was addressing the dealing floor . |
| 20 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 21 | Check that it is done before the client arrives . |
| 22 | He comes from a reasonably conservative background and Mains is sure to insist that a lot of very basic work is done before the backline frills are attempted . |
| 23 | This is done while the transfer of both pictures and original sound is being made onto a copy tape . |
| 24 | All this is done while the philosopher stares abstractedly out of the window and the interviewer dozes off . |
| 25 | As already mentioned , a survey is done where the researcher wishes to gather large amounts of data from a relatively large number of people . |
| 26 | This is done when the message , written in the DNA double helix , is transcribed into a related ‘ messenger ’ molecule , called RNA . |
| 27 | In the former case , one can think ( without it being too misleading ) of each statement of the higher-level program translated into a set of statements of lower-level program , and that is done when the program runs . |
| 28 | McCourt scissor-kicked a Tom McDonald cross from the left by-line onto the inside of the Distillery goalpost but justice was done when the ball rebounded to safety . |
| 29 | And I and I as I say a lot was done because the poverty . |