Example sentences of "[noun sg] do the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Edwards says the horse is a good jumper so he 'll tell Judy to hang on and sit still and let the horse do the hard work . |
| 2 | It 's not as if they get much study done the last week or so anyway . ’ |
| 3 | First , it is the only style that was invented by a woman ; and second , it requires only the minimum exertion of force to do the maximum amount of work . |
| 4 | I am not sure who is more demoralised by that — the local people , who frequently complain that they do not get a quick response when they need help , or the local police , who attend the crime in an attempt to do the good job that they intended when they entered the police force , knowing that they are likely to be pulled in all directions to answer calls on a blue line that has been pulled far too thin by the Government 's demands . |
| 5 | I started by asking ‘ What sort of religion do the British favour ? ’ . |
| 6 | What sex aid did the Tibetan monk invent ? |
| 7 | Benchmark tests are commonly used to give the reader some idea of how well a PC performs — is it fast , slow , or average , is its video performance up to scratch , what sort of speed does the hard disk go at , and that kind of thing . |
| 8 | For burying , a long-boarded general-purpose or lea plough does the cleanest job , turning up an unbroken , shiny furrow . |
| 9 | A footballer done the same thing . |
| 10 | er course work to do the whole time . |
| 11 | You can buy a strong slim trowel to do the same job and there are several on the market . |
| 12 | Thus Indochinese with top marks from the Grandes Écoles in France returned home to serve under Frenchmen with much lower qualifications , or none at all , on a salary which was approximately a fifth of what would be paid to a European doing the same work . |
| 13 | One problem not tackled is , what influence did the increasing sophistication of formal language after the High Renaissance have on colour usage ? |
| 14 | The Shannon Development Company had a ‘ Matchmaker ’ service to match up the capacities of local suppliers with the needs of industrial purchasers , the Irish Development Authority ‘ Project Identification Unit ’ supplied local firms with information on the purchasing requirements of the multinationals , and the Irish Goods Council did the same thing . |
| 15 | Many parents comment that their child did the complete opposite of what was asked for several months and so the parents learned to say the opposite of what they wanted , for example , ‘ I really do n't want you to put your pyjamas on now ’ , or ‘ I do n't think you can eat all of that food ’ . |
| 16 | We also have the paradox that ( as Posner , 1972 , p. 153 admits ) those same people who tend to argue that the common law promotes efficiency also reject the idea that regulatory law does the same thing . |
| 17 | I 'd like my fiancé to do the traditional thing and ask my father for his permission to marry me , but he says that no one does this any more . |
| 18 | In these circumstances I thought it would better serve the interests of air safety generally if a properly appointed accredited representative had the right to do the same thing . |
| 19 | Would n't he prefer the blushing apple of his eye to do the decent thing ? |
| 20 | Erm , it took , it took a week and a half before the fresh foods secretary even spoke to me when I went in this place to do the free appointment , nobody 's told me how I 'm doing , so then what 's the point of doing these things if nobody 's going give you anything , it 's just a waste of time ? |
| 21 | So the point I 'm trying to make is that you ca n't rely on one product to do the whole job . |
| 22 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 23 | GUIDELINES FOR GROUP DOING THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM |
| 24 | By rights , Kate — my partner 's secretary — should have been sitting at a desk in the foyer doing the initial vetting , but you beat us to it ; you were very quick off the mark . |
| 25 | At what point did the Labour Party take over from the Liberal Party as the second party of government ? |
| 26 | In no Hanoverian war did the unfunded proportion of the debt exceed 20 per cent , and it was rarely that high . |
| 27 | All these restrictions , whether carrying a right to compensation or not , are imposed in the public interest , and the essence of the compensation problem as regards the imposition of restrictions appears to be this — at what point does the public interest become such that a private individual ought to be compelled on to comply , at his own cost , with a restriction or requirement designed to secure that public interest ? |
| 28 | On what basis does the modern law deprive the parties of their freedom to choose the terms of their bargain ? |
| 29 | ‘ What sort of confidence does the Labour Party have ? |
| 30 | Her unnecessary decision to do the dirtiest work in the place struck them as alarming . |