Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] do [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I am very proud , very proud indeed , of what BBC journalists have done in the former Yugoslavia .
2 Since these parameters have to do with the FMS drivers , checking and setting them is described in Appendix D , FMS Drivers .
3 One set of aspirations has to do with the development of new forms of service for clients and their carers or families ; another with the direct provision of services .
4 What are our enlightened descendants going to do about the fourth element , Earth ?
5 These conventions or maxims have to do with the quantity ( or informativeness ) , the quality ( truthfulness ) , the manner ( clearness ) and relevance of conversational contributions .
6 Ironically , since Hartley seems to be no great lover of what Japanese companies have done to the instrument industry , he concedes various parallels in th Peavey set-up with the oriental approach to business .
7 Ironically , since Hartley seems to be no great lover of what Japanese companies have done to the instrument industry , he concedes various parallels in th Peavey set-up with the oriental approach to business .
8 While purists may look on and dislike what the engineers have done to the looks of the Gooney , it looks as through this surgery may help keep the old girl flying commercially well towards the type 's centenary !
9 The point we want to make for immediate purposes has to do with the way in which methodological problems arise from particular conceptions of the " order of things " .
10 They included , roughly speaking , the earth 's London face being away from the sun for a time , the absence of any light source like that of the sun , in the right place at the right time , and conditions having to do with the behaviour of light .
11 There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best .
12 The most obvious questions have to do with the elements or components of the curriculum : the things that go to make it up ( see Figure 1.1 ) .
13 What has all this grand talk about moral universals got to do with the micro-scale empirical sociology which I originally held up as the characteristic of my kind of social anthropology ?
14 The primary significance of stating the duty in these terms has to do with the form of caring or treatment the doctor provides .
15 Dominant ideologies are just such broad processes : at least , in the context of our discussion , they are abstract conceptualisations of broad processes having to do with the management and allocation of resources , power and authority .
16 It is clear from the last sentence in the quotation that Mrs Whitehouse does not view her position in the way some of her critics have done in the past , as reactionary or illiberal .
17 Aspectual differences have to do with the temporal distribution of an event , for instance its completion or non-completion , continuation , or momentariness .
18 ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS .
19 One set of issues has to do with the way in which science and technology so drastically alter previous patterns of life that they erode and undermine the social , ethical and spiritual values which had been encapsulated and preserved in them .
20 Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " ,
21 Parents sampled the linguistic , mathematical , scientific and creative work which the children had done on the theme — and many discovered that activities which often look to be just fun can in fact be quite hard work .
22 ‘ Tomorrow we will face the Orcish scum and will triumph , as men have done since the time of Sigmar ! ’
23 Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War .
24 There is talk of setting up a ‘ proud to be perverted ’ pressure group along the lines of Act Up ) , ( perhaps they should call it Strapped Up ) , which will campaign around the issue of consent , the idea that whatever two adults agree to do in the privacy of their own homes is no concern of the courts .
25 Some arose from the difficulties of practical implementation , others had to do with the longer term history of state involvement in sexuality .
26 Spreading themselves out , they began to hitchhike , just as English students had done in the sixties .
27 That was precisely what women had done in the past — sit back and wait for men to make the running .
28 Empirical criteria have to do with the process of application .
29 She has not used her wealth and prestige to act as a patron of the arts , as monarchs have done in the past and millionaires still do today .
30 Initially concerned with the advancement of these aims through the provision of low cost holidays abroad , rapid early success led to the extension of operations to the home market with publicity material stressing the proletarian nature of the enterprise : ‘ Trips for the workers ; Holidays to suit all pockets ’ ; ‘ What Cooks have done in the way of facilitating travel for the upper-middle and middling-middle classes , the WTA are arranging to do for the masses . ’
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