Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His methods however were mostly to do with the syntax and vocabulary and sounds and had little to do with what the languages meant . |
| 2 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 3 | Her problems were more to do with the self confidence which had characterised her from such an early age . |
| 4 | If the court takes the view that the meeting was not a reasonable step in the action but was merely done for the client 's benefit , then the costs will be disallowed as against the defendants . |
| 5 | It was all to do with the silence , and the wine stain — turning now from red to black as it spread and seeped . |
| 6 | The inquest had heard that changes to the hot water system at the home where the boy died had been ordered five years ago , but that the work was only done AFTER the boy 's death . |
| 7 | This was largely done by the process of ‘ enclosure ’ , the breaking-down of the medieval strip-farming system and its replacement by relatively compact holdings of almost rectangular fields ; it was not so much dependent on new farming techniques as on the more intensive use of ploughland and labour . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 9 | Pike , as I expected , confirmed that this was work which was normally done by the statistical clerks . |
| 10 | Gooseberries and red and white currants can now be pruned if this was not done during the winter . |
| 11 | The adverse act required under Morris did not mean that the prosecution had to prove that the appropriation was not done with the authority of the owner because so to hold was inconsistent with Lawrence . |
| 12 | The ANDF installer for Sparc produced by Praxis Systems Plc ( UX No 389 ) , was not done for the Open Software Foundation but for the DRA , which owns it . |
| 13 | In the third series , sclerotherapy was not done as the initial treatment . |
| 14 | This was not done in the 1985 Act — with the result that it would be open to the Government not to comply with an order if it takes the view that the Tribunal 's decision clearly exceeds its powers under the statute . |
| 15 | With Augustus a jurisdiction was established , but this was not done within the formulary system or the existing structure of the civil courts . |
| 16 | ‘ He was quite temperamental because of his perfectionism , and he was always concerned that there was something he was not doing with the material ; in other words , he blamed it on his delivery . ’ |
| 17 | This was generally done for the EC as a whole , and few attempts were made to estimate the redistribution effects of removing these trade barriers . |
| 18 | Hit-the was usually done in the Co-op hall , and er they were good . |
| 19 | The shearing was always done in the great barn , which had stood on the farm for four centuries . |
| 20 | His eyes gleamed , but he imagined it was still to do with the vistas shown to the merchant by the Genius of Riches . |
| 21 | This unexpected success was more to do with the low turn-out of bondholders at the meeting rather than any change of attitude . |
| 22 | They felt it was more to do with the wickedness of the world . |
| 23 | It was more to do with the jars of jam on the pantry shelves . |
| 24 | Some work was probably done in the quarries on Paros , and it is likely that among the executants were islanders , used to carving marble ; there is next to no marble sculpture from Olympia before this . |
| 25 | He engaged them with zest , stretching and testing them like a martial artist , to catalyse their own divine spark — just as he was later to do as the teacher , John Keating , in Dead Poets Society . |
| 26 | An analysis was also done of the outcome of validation for the private centres . |
| 27 | I suppose this was partly to do with the heat — it is very hot here at present — but to tell you the truth I do n't remember very much about it . |
| 28 | But the plain truth is that we can not say what was really done for the children or what the results were . |
| 29 | We might give a superior smile at such a superstitious notion , and explain that the arranging was really done by the blind forces of physics , in this case the action of waves . |
| 30 | Other groundbreaking work was reportedly done in the areas of fault tolerance support and compiler optimisation . |