Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [been] do in " in BNC.

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1 The most illuminating insights in philosophy are almost invariably the simplest , and a great deal of my most original thinking has been done in response to the innocence of my pupils — particularly of first-year students who are still philosophical virgins .
2 What little research has been done in this area suggests that the proportion of deprived youngsters heading for the great outdoors is disproportionately low .
3 Although religious educators often refer to religion in the lives of children and young people , and recommend that religious education draw on this experience in their teaching , little research has been done in the area .
4 Somebody 's car 's been done in last night anyway .
5 The world is changing , and just because defence , nuclear energy and agricultural research have been done in certain ways in the past does not mean that that is the best way now .
6 Although much work has been done in the decades since those words were written , it is still true to say that many texts in printed form do not reflect the contents of the original manuscripts with complete accuracy , although more recent printed transcriptions tend to be reliable , not least because they have usually been scanned by a number of scholars before publication .
7 To date , some work has been done in several areas including planning and learning and induction .
8 A great deal of work has been done in attempts to get at the ‘ true ’ total of crimes committed .
9 Very little work has been done in this field but there has been sufficient to reveal that the refinement of economic theory ( especially in terms of mathematical sophistication ) is akin to fashioning scalpels to cut through jungle when it comes to the real world of policy-making [ Graham , 1975 ] .
10 A great deal of work has been done in academic and business schools on the track record of success of those who have diversified totally outside their own fields of experience .
11 More work has been done in the research labs and in the field to improve shoulder strap comfort when carrying big loads , but we still await the goods in the shop .
12 These are fairly generalised packages and a lot of work has been done in personnel on enhancing ADI in particular to make it more attractive as a Personnel Information System .
13 Some experimental work has been done in this area , but not much ; examples can be found in the papers by Becker and Huschens ( 1991 ) , Kogut and Phillips ( 1991 ) , Moon and Keasey ( 1991 ) , Thistle , Battalio , and Kagel ( 1991 ) , and Vossebein and Tietz ( 1990 ) .
14 Most work has been done in the visible and near-UV regions ( wavelengths 700–200 nm ; frequencies 14 000–50 000 cm -1 ) where photographic recording is easy , and glass or quartz optics are ideal .
15 Although a great deal of work has been done in the historical demography of the developed world relatively little research has been carried out in relation to the corresponding ( i.e. pre-demographic transition ) period in the Third World .
16 To this end , much work has been done in the Sub-Committee in considering our relationship with other parties ( responsibility/claims/co-ordinated approach ) , the funding criteria and their application in Scotland and , finally , formulating a Draft Strategy for Development Education in Scotland .
17 Much interesting work has been done in the PDP paradigm on the use of lexicon-based constraints to reduce the word graph size .
18 Yes , erm , a great deal of work has been done in the United States on this trend , in particular by juvenile fire setters as they refer to them .
19 All that work has been done in addition to the the traffic studies .
20 ‘ A considerable degree of work has been done in putting the city first and giving it back to its citizens , ’ he said .
21 Well I think some interesting work has been done in Israel erm , a woman called Dr. Ophraelin erm and she runs a stress prevention centre where she 's working right out in the community , which is something , you know , I particularly am interested in , erm empowering people , empowering parents , helping them to recognize their skills , erm just giving them a sense of their own self worth .
22 Most of the listening has been done in workshops of one sort or another .
23 Many of the flavourings which enhance our food today have not been thoroughly tested , or if they have , the testing has been done in isolation without taking into account the reaction it may have when combined with others .
24 Dr Paul Maestrone , scientific and medical affairs director for the American Parkinson Disease Association , said he considered any findings ‘ very preliminary ’ until testing has been done in humans .
25 Work had been done in the Treasury before the war on the introduction of a counter-cyclical element into public spending to help stabilise employment .
26 [ These proposals were widely opposed , and they were abandoned by the new Conservative government in 1979 , although much groundwork had been done in the meantime on the legal and administrative aspects of implementing them ( see 1979 Benn , 1979 Dickson ) . ]
27 The packing had been done in the basement to avoid break ages , and the two crates stood at the foot of the stairs .
28 In Mr Ainslie 's opinion , the acquisition of the collection had protected the market from a ‘ huge onslaught ’ of works by twenty or so artists and the operation had been done in an ‘ intelligent , systematic way ’ .
29 The bridegroom wo n't go into transports of grief and you do n't put off your wedding because your best man 's been done in . ’
30 Some collecting has been done in Colombia and Peru , but not enough ; in Central America , some primitive cultivated varieties in danger of extinction are now preserved in the germplasm collection at Turrialba in Costa Rica , but there , as elsewhere , the present-day status of the wild cocoa populations remains mysterious .
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