Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been done in " in BNC.

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1 The abolition of car tax was a bold move but it should have been done in the Budget last March , as the motor industry had asked .
2 ‘ How she was able to effect all this ’ , her nephew writes in his Memoir , ‘ is surprising , for she had no separate study to repair to , and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room , subject to all kinds of casual interruptions .
3 Opposition leaders believe that more could have been done in Geneva to find an international solution .
4 ‘ All this could have been done in commercial machinery shops , but it would have cost a fortune , ’ he says .
5 At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance .
6 He could have been done in by some thug who was after the money in his pockets .
7 Since their prime purpose was to stable horses , and perhaps to accommodate their grooms ( though this could have been done in hay lofts at first-floor level ) , it is instructive to consider the space needs .
8 ‘ I suppose he could have been done in somewhere else and then carted up there . ’
9 ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’
10 Things could have been done in an underhand way , but I insisted that Hibs ask for permission to speak to me .
11 This may have been done in the Middle Ages , but many warrens seem to date from the sixteenth century onwards .
12 Of course , much of that would have been done in his lectures , to which the anti-Aristotelian Exercises are an appendix .
13 I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue .
14 I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue .
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