Example sentences of "do justice [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 2 | Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred . |
| 3 | For the last hour they had done justice to Molly 's superb cooking . |
| 4 | I hope to have done justice to some of these shock-waves of taste , and without undue reverence . |
| 5 | So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns . |
| 6 | Vinelott J. doubted whether a party and party taxation would have done justice to the contractual right of the mortgagee to recover ‘ all costs charges and expenses incurred or paid … |
| 7 | Are there examples of successful theories which have not done justice to any of the espoused criteria ? |
| 8 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |
| 9 | I hope that I have done justice to at least some part of all hon. Members ' contributions . |
| 10 | said : ‘ I am delighted that it is now up and running and I am confident we have done justice to the concept . ’ |
| 11 | Erm well I feel we have n't really done justice to Johnson . |
| 12 | All sensible people must with shame agree that it is a disgrace to our nation that we Germans are trying to suppress a German , to whom foreign countries have done justice by their great admiration and even by public acknowledgments in writing . |
| 13 | THIS was a first-rate match , full of incident and controversy , which was not done justice by the goalless scoreline . |
| 14 | Such a brief summary does not do justice to the detail and complexity of Kemp 's argument . |
| 15 | Our black-and-white picture does not really do justice to its chameleon-like metallic paintwork , which seems to appear as green , silver or blue according to the light . |
| 16 | Ruth 's hair was out of shape and did n't do justice to her strong bone structure so stylist Caroline Stacey , also from Keith Hall the Hairdressers , but from their Leicester salon , decided to take the weight out of the back leaving the top longer . |
| 17 | It was only to be expected that a man who has written with such insight and style about Calcutta and New York , cricket and the crossing of deserts would do justice to a life-long passion . |
| 18 | Last winter , though , Mr Tomlinson started work on his biggest project yet — to build a 250hp tractor that could do justice to the farm 's ultra-high output Mengele SH4ON forage harvester . |
| 19 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 20 | A brief summary of the arthropods can not do justice to all the fascinating specialized groups — sea spiders and mites for example — that have an incomplete fossil record . |
| 21 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 22 | Historical metaphors can never do justice to the complexity of a country 's past , but at this early stage of my trip I felt I was beginning to discern a snake 's energy and inertia in Peru 's past . |
| 23 | Only color photographs , of which too few survive , can do justice to this vivid yet harmonious palette , but a simple catalogue of materials and their distribution may suggest something of its richness . |
| 24 | Neither effect is large , but the result is sufficiently different for us to feel uncomfortable about averaging the two effects ; it would not do justice to the situation to say that on average there was no effect of education once age was controlled . |
| 25 | We can hardly do justice to the wide scope of psychological theories here , but there are some basic ideas and assumptions which underlie such theorizing . |
| 26 | We must be certain we can do justice to the wonderful things past engineers have bequeathed us . |
| 27 | No brief summary can possibly do justice to the depth of the analysis ; but it has already been tried out on some uncommonly hard-nosed customers , and elicited their approbation . |
| 28 | But even if one were to follow a couple for a whole day on repeated occasions , would this do justice to the full range , texture and history of the changing day-to-day relations between mother and child ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sure she ca n't do justice to your designs . |
| 30 | No brief article can do justice to Sir Charles ' many contributions and the influence he has had . |