Example sentences of "[was/were] do [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version . |
| 2 | As for Mr 's point that Not Mr b Steven 's point that the erm figures for the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire were done on a different basis , those figures with the exception of Sheffield , were erm figures that were put in by the local planning authorities , the Secretary of State accepted those figures , they were done on the nineteen eighty five based household projections , coupled with different assumptions about vacancy rates and demolitions etcetera , and the Secretary of State accepted those figures . |
| 3 | These were done for a particular customer that wanted them buffed . |
| 4 | The tests were done in a quiet room with patients sitting at a table . |
| 5 | ‘ This was done with a complete focus on shareholders of the corporation , ’ he insists . |
| 6 | It was done with a scornful glance at Keith and then a grin of agreement at Mrs Hollins . |
| 7 | This was done on a haphazard basis , so that a Peruvian Indian from the Andes could be issued with papers proving beyond legal doubt that he had in fact spent all his life in Godalming . |
| 8 | ‘ It was done on a manual Adler typewriter , a machine about ten years old . |
| 9 | If that was done on a national scale we would wipe out this disease . |
| 10 | As for naval campaigning , much of it was done at a great distance . |
| 11 | Everything was done at a leisurely tempo . |
| 12 | That was done at a previous meeting , it was |
| 13 | The proposals were to be put before the congregation and this was done at a Congregational Tea in the Town Hall on Thursday 5 May 1966 at 7.30 pm . |
| 14 | Washing was done to a final stringency of 0.5 SSC , 0.1% SDS , 65°C . |
| 15 | Unfortunately some of this work was done without a proper appreciation of the fact that the presence of tree growth , and the shade it gave , prevented or at least discouraged the growth of water weeds , the existence of which could form an even greater obstruction than much of the tree growth . |
| 16 | The Royal Commission on Labour reported in 1894 that much of the cheaper work for Bristol clothiers was done by a female labour force at home , and the 1901 Census returns recorded one-third of women employed in the clothing trade as homeworkers . |
| 17 | THIRTY FIVE people died and others were maimed for life in the Clapham rail disaster in December last year because work was done in a slovenly , haphazard way and was then left unchecked . |
| 18 | In those days the washing was done in a good old copper boiling on a Monday and light the fire underneath it and this sort of thing . |
| 19 | it was done in a very un-run way , because the notice , the notice was , was er it 'd be up about a couple of days and then it 'd come down , you see , so it did n't give anybody a lot of chance , but anyway now it 's been passed you see it goes ahead and that 's all there is to it , he , he has n't start doing it yet but |
| 20 | There was a shortage of trained teachers and the planning of schools reflected this circumstance ; most of the instruction was done in a large school-room , off which there might be one or two classrooms which were used for teaching smaller groups . |
| 21 | Consistently the view was presented that one had to feel that the job which one was doing at a particular time could be related to some end product . |
| 22 | Firwood Bootle 's skipper Ian Cockbain knew what he was doing on a soft unpredictable Aigburth pitch when he declared at what seemed an easy target at Liverpool . |