Example sentences of "be do in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The packing had been done in the basement to avoid break ages , and the two crates stood at the foot of the stairs . |
| 2 | All this has been done in the name of spurious progress : to create jobs in rural communities , provide employment . |
| 3 | If the last chapter dealt with the freedom of form of the trust , this one deals with its freedom from formulae : forms of action were not promulgated in advance , as had been done in the edict of the urban praetor . |
| 4 | Work had been done in the Treasury before the war on the introduction of a counter-cyclical element into public spending to help stabilise employment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The way that this has been done in the past is the subject of the next chapter ; the way that it might be done in the future is the justification for this book . |
| 7 | Legislation had been tried before , from the late fourteenth century onwards , but more effort was made to enforce the 1651 Act than had been done in the past . |
| 8 | With no high level of education they lay claim instead to ‘ experience ’ — an intimate familiarity with the way things have been done in the past — and ‘ common sense ’ — a rich fund of practical knowledge about the job and its problems which inculcates a sense of the reasonable . |
| 9 | We may try , as has been done in the past , to arm prosecutors and judges with better procedures for discovering police mistakes . |
| 10 | The distinction has to be considered at least to some extent because only by identifying what has been done in the past can one see how deficiencies remain to be corrected in the future research agenda . |
| 11 | Is it the Secretary of State 's intention that the current senior chief inspector should publish his annual report in February , as has been done in the past , or is it his intention , as Secretaries of State managed to do in 1983 and again in 1987 , to delay publication of that report until after the general election ? |
| 12 | These should not be intended to duplicate the deed of indemnity but to obtain information as to possible taxation problems and where things have been done in the past which could , depending on what is done in the future , give problems after completion . |
| 13 | He says the basic idea is if you understand what 's going wrong then you can design any therapy sensibly not on the hit and miss basis it 's been done in the past . |
| 14 | It resulted in the erm extra requirement for security which does happen to which Mr has referred and I I think it 's it 's very very important to realise that if that three party cooperation can be achieved as it should be , bearing in mind what Simon says that we are going to have to do this , with horrendous problems in the youth and community project in the future and we would be failing completely in our duty , not just to the people of Highfields , but to the people of this whole county if we simply allowed politics , as has been done in the past , to lead to entrenched positions and the idea of simply saying to the director , we are in a mess therefore will you please deal with it all is I think wildly irresponsible and I 'm very very surprised indeed that erm that point should be put . |
| 15 | Everybody says that 's what 's going to happen , but erm when it 's been done in the past I 've not had any figures produced that indicate that the service provision has had to fall off because of increased charges . |
| 16 | ‘ The damage that has been done in the pursuit of production is the direct result of treating farming as if it were simply another business ’ BRIAN REDHEAD |
| 17 | [ These proposals were widely opposed , and they were abandoned by the new Conservative government in 1979 , although much groundwork had been done in the meantime on the legal and administrative aspects of implementing them ( see 1979 Benn , 1979 Dickson ) . ] |
| 18 | It had been intended to number the main service 109B and 109W , for Blackfriars and Westminster respectively , as had been done in the case of the Wimbledon services , but there was a change in heart at the last minute and the buses were delivered with blinds numbered 109 only . |
| 19 | This has been done in the case of a number of last ( Ipswichian ) interglacial deposits in Britain to give a clearer idea of sea level at that period and the amount of East Anglian downwarping since ( Sparks and West , 1971 ) . |
| 20 | The main impediments to the free flow of people are those placed there to facilitate the free flow of motorised traffic , particularly road crossing barriers , signs embedded in the pavement and steps and ramps to carry the walker over or under the roadway. little seems to have been done in the way of formal schemes of assessment of pedestrian problems or of priorities for maintenance or design . |
| 21 | Not be critical and unpleasant about everything that 's been done in the way of traffic calming . |
| 22 | I 've done the old all been done in the packing ! |
| 23 | To this end , much work has been done in the Sub-Committee in considering our relationship with other parties ( responsibility/claims/co-ordinated approach ) , the funding criteria and their application in Scotland and , finally , formulating a Draft Strategy for Development Education in Scotland . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This has been done in the belief that redundant rural labour could be absorbed by consistent growth in the manufacturing and service sectors of the economy . |
| 26 | They also posed a question in my mind about what had been done in the interim . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | More work has been done in the research labs and in the field to improve shoulder strap comfort when carrying big loads , but we still await the goods in the shop . |
| 29 | Most of the important Physics that has been done in the laboratory during that time has been profoundly influenced by Sir Charles . |
| 30 | We support a networking approach with other specialist bodies ( 3.6 ) and would like the guidance to encourage liaison with non-governmental bodies , such as has been done in the draft PPG Note on Nature Conservation . |