Example sentences of "work [was/were] do [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A lot of work was done to the bridge in the years 1648–50 and an inscription on it states that it was ‘ built ’ in 1650 .
2 So much tree clearance work was done during the first ten years of the existence of Catchment Boards that it is now difficult to get a complete picture of the derelict state of the rivers before the passing of the Land Drainage Act in 1930 .
3 Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit .
4 That work was done on the nickels of a string of major investors led by IBM Corp , which is thought to have lost between $100m and $200m on the failed venture — but Chen 's announcement that his new company , Supercomputers International Inc , will draw on work done by the failed one raises the question of who owns that work .
5 Only when the inevitable standing ovation was over , and their work was done in the conference hall , could they relax .
6 ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns .
7 What work was done in the United Kingdom on raiding and amphibious operations had been mainly carried out by the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( ISTDC ) and the Royal Marines ' Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation ( MNBDO ) , the Royal Navy being responsible for amphibious operations .
8 The probability is that a large part , even most , of the work was done in the madhouse , and that Smart finished it after his release .
9 Much work was done in the 1790s at the Royal Naval Hospital , Greenwich , and in 1810 work began on the pediment there , which was forty feet long , designed by Benjamin West [ q.v. ] and Joseph Panzetta , and made in Coade stone .
10 If we look at the actual numbers of cystoscopies performed you will you see that there were the vast majority of work was done in the lower and intermediate risk group patients er and the positive er cystoscopy rate erm was much lower in the lower risk group , as you would expect , than in the higher risk group .
11 Most of the work was done by the slaves who , provided they did not try to escape , were often reasonably treated although their quarters were cramped and poorly finished .
12 Despite this , quite a lot of good work was done by the eighty fourth-year " leavers " ( aged I 4-plus ) who were the trial group for the project .
13 In the early days there was , he felt , a ‘ gentleman 's club ’ atmosphere about the CNAA , and the main work was done by the boards — with no real role for the higher level committees .
14 The White Paper promised that information would be gathered to help implement demand management , but no work was done until the autumn of 1945 .
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