Example sentences of "[vb past] be done [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if the government alleges that what it did was done in the interests of national security and the court accepts this , the aggrieved party 's action will simply be dismissed . |
| 2 | For the rest of the day there were almost continuous air attacks , but as dusk crept over the scene it was discovered that no damage had been done to the LRDG patrol . |
| 3 | Refusal ‘ Clyde Walcott , the match referee , was entirely satisfied that nothing illegal had been done to the ball at the Oval and we want to point out that there was no suggestion of it being tampered with . ’ |
| 4 | Seeing that no serious injury had been done to the Chamden player , Darren settled on grabbing the referee 's notebook and booking himself . |
| 5 | Little damage had been done to the surrounding farms since the beasts had concentrated their efforts on following the patrol and striving to enter Ivrigar . |
| 6 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 7 | The attack was over , but how on earth could Shelley know what damage had been done to the heart muscle ? |
| 8 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 9 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 10 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 11 | Mother General 's view was that enough had been done for the child already . |
| 12 | Nothing had been done for the women who were exploited by prostitution . |
| 13 | Tite and Donaldson closed the meeting with a half-hearted suggestion that a new competition could be organized among the prize-winners as had been done at the new library at Cambridge . |
| 14 | Over the years particularly prior to the formation of the BCRS considerable research had been done on the BCR and its influence on the area it served . |
| 15 | By the 1970s , the " West Indian language problem " had been probed and discussed by educators and policy makers , but still rather little actual research had been done on the language of the Caribbeans . |
| 16 | Despite year-long complaints nothing had been done about the problem . |
| 17 | The problem with the mixtures is that they have never been proved in the classical homoeopathic way , as had been done with the original remedies . |
| 18 | She supplemented the once-weekly group sessions by finishing activities begun in the session with her class and she sometimes initiated a task for the whole class to do to reinforce what had been done with the advisory teacher . |
| 19 | Mr Kennedy said that no deal had been done with the Government other than on an understanding that today 's scheduled business should not be knocked out by allowing yesterday 's session to continue beyond lunchtime today . |
| 20 | If the last chapter dealt with the freedom of form of the trust , this one deals with its freedom from formulae : forms of action were not promulgated in advance , as had been done in the edict of the urban praetor . |
| 21 | Mr Edwards was appalled at what could and had been done in the ‘ best interests of the children ’ . |
| 22 | It had been intended to number the main service 109B and 109W , for Blackfriars and Westminster respectively , as had been done in the case of the Wimbledon services , but there was a change in heart at the last minute and the buses were delivered with blinds numbered 109 only . |
| 23 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 24 | Legislation had been tried before , from the late fourteenth century onwards , but more effort was made to enforce the 1651 Act than had been done in the past . |
| 25 | The packing had been done in the basement to avoid break ages , and the two crates stood at the foot of the stairs . |
| 26 | But it has been shown that few of the innovations of this period were without precedent in the policies of earlier years , and that much of the crucial thinking about the form these new institutions should take had been done in the inter war period . |
| 27 | Works had been done in the adjoining street by the Commissioners for executing the Act , the expenses of which , under the provisions of their Act , they charged on the owners of the adjoining houses . |
| 28 | [ 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 ) . ] |
| 29 | The acquisition contractor was Geoteam Exploration , using the vessel Nordic Explorer to deploy four 3000 metre streamers — the first time this had been done in the North Sea . |
| 30 | They also posed a question in my mind about what had been done in the interim . |