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

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1 Ironically , these kids are doing to the Lo Life name what the real Lo Lifers themselves do to Ralph Lauren 's — using its status for their own ends .
2 If the sessions are done in the home , family or friends will be asked to be reasonably quiet , and not to turn the radio or television up , or have noisy conversations .
3 If these can be confirmed and if the tappings were done with the authority of a Home Office warrant , it suggests that the guidelines were being interpreted with a remarkable degree of latitude .
4 Now I I construe that , the way that 's constructed to mean that er when we 're say that the tide had turned against new settlements , as some districts were doing at the time this came out .
5 The court has been today hearing evidence from witnesses building up a picture of what the who defendants were doing in the hours before the alleged abduction of James Bolger .
6 All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks .
7 UNTIL lines is done in the correct manner , in that the NEXT is aligned with the FOR and the REPEAT with the UNTIL .
8 Not for nothing is water polo an Italian expression to describe business life : the fouls are done with the feet under the water where the umpire can not see them . ’
9 For the reject results the same calculations are done on the unshaded area giving revised probabilities of 0·32 for the 10 per cent and 0·68 for the 2 per cent levels .
10 For the reject results the same calculations are done on the unshaded area giving revised probabilities of 0.32 for the 10 per cent and 0.68 for the 2 per cent levels .
11 Gohar Kordy writes : ‘ What would have been the work of psychotherapy in the West for years was done by the family in these 40 days ’ .
12 It may be you see that the manufacturing flavour of the past two years was to do with the pre er Common Market period getting inside the European Union ring fence with the manufacturing plant and there is speculation as to whether that will now change that the Common Market is now established and that that window of opportunity for manufacturing has tended to recede suggesting that it may be erm administrative er er services service sector that erm these international companies would now want inside the Union .
13 Most deals are done on the basis of 60:40 .
14 Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular .
15 Well , all these things are done with the best of in intentions you know but erm that 's the only , that 's the only logical reason because they ca n't seem to find any other evidence as to the cause of it you see
16 What concerns us is that if those things are done outside the IASC 's control , it threatens to undermine our credibility .
17 We are not arguing that either is necessarily an illegitimate exercise , only that it is significant that these things are done in the name of urban regeneration .
18 He suggests that the rule of law is , in these troubled times , more important than ever , but the audience gets the impression that he is a pompous prick , giving a foreigner a little lecture about how things are done in the Empire .
19 Do not be afraid to ask questions , particularly , perhaps , questions as to why things are done in the way they are — though you should for a long time be very restrained in any suggestions you make for improvement .
20 TOP is beginning to impact on how things are done throughout the Station and the emphasis is now on tangible results .
21 A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’
22 A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’
23 All experiments were done with the crystal at room temperature .
24 These things were done without the knowledge of parents , needless to say .
25 She just accepted the way things were done in the Army .
26 1963 ) and a number of studies were done on the reduced sexual responsiveness to familiar members of the opposite sex in rodents ( reviews in Dewsbury , 1982 ; D'Udine & Alleva , 1983 ) .
27 The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board .
28 If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance .
29 Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped .
30 Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit .
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