Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All experiments were done with the crystal at room temperature . |
| 8 | These things were done without the knowledge of parents , needless to say . |
| 9 | She just accepted the way things were done in the Army . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 15 | What was done by the Whips was done in the name of the Prime Minister . |
| 16 | It was what the Americans would call a ‘ company town ’ , and is worth seeing as an example of what enlightened employers were doing at the time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most of the stately saloon 's 74,000 miles were done before the Second World War . |
| 19 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 20 | Gel retardation with the distal E2F binding site from the adenovirus E2A promoter ( -71 to -50 region ) and the DP-1 derivatives was done in the absence of salmon sperm DNA ( tracks 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 ) . |