Example sentences of "have [be] done [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all David and I agreed that not enough work has been done to merit the meeting in Barcelona in the week beginning 10 July . |
| 2 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 3 | Nothing of any depth has been done to give the wider public , and especially young people , a cultural background or rather , an educational training , which transcends mere entertainment or spectacle . |
| 4 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 5 | What has been done supplies the framework of justification for what is to be done . |
| 6 | Most of this increase stems directly from government policies and , although some extra resources have been allocated for 1990/91 and 1991/92 , little has been done to remedy the situation . |
| 7 | It can be used to cast off a group of stitches at , say , the last row of the shoulder ( when the shaping has been done using the holding position ) . |
| 8 | Many other hon. Members are equally grateful for what has been done to ensure the future of the TA in their areas . |
| 9 | This has been done to increase the incentives the higher income groups have to work harder . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , no systematic research has been done to determine the typical voice settings of speakers of Caribbean Creoles or of members of the Caribbean community in Britain . |
| 11 | The term is problematic , and to date very little work has been done to determine the means by which it is possible to reach qualitative judgements about dramatic characters . |
| 12 | The reason behind the emphasis is an admission that not enough has been done to help the small , growing company and a belief that a key element in the failure of many growing enterprises to expand beyond a certain size is the lack of links with the right people to provide help in the major decisions faced at that stage . |
| 13 | Something has been done to help the historian to make sense of this abundance by publishing selections of material on certain important topics . |
| 14 | In the intervening year , nothing has been done to right the wrongs of the decade , so what profit has been gleaned in the first year of the new leadership of the Conservative party ? |
| 15 | In two decades remarkably little has been done to alleviate the conditions of some of the poorest city citizens , who personified the unacceptable face of the urban crisis , even if the terms of the debate itself have changed dramatically . |
| 16 | Indeed this is what should have been done to stop the actions of the buffer stock Manager . |
| 17 | It believes more should have been done to ease the severity of the jobless situation . |
| 18 | Finally , you must always ask yourself " What could have been done to prevent the crisis ? |
| 19 | ‘ This is apparently against prison regulations , but little seems to have been done to enforce the rule . ’ |
| 20 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 21 | Little seems to have been done to repair the various bridges and now , — " Ballinaby having presented to this Meeting an Estimate of a Bridge to be built upon the water of Saligo … |
| 22 | Nothing had been done to prettify the site as at Sizewell , on the Suffolk coast , or to produce the pleasantly laid-out grounds of smooth lawn , flowering trees and shrubs which so agreeably impressed him on his periodic visits to Winfrith in Dorset . |
| 23 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 24 | Nothing , however , had been done to implement the proposals when , in March 1778 , the French signed a treaty of friendship with the Americans . |
| 25 | It was obvious that the plane had been repainted before its journey and Whitlock suddenly wondered if it had been done to erase the memories of the previous regime . |
| 26 | She guessed that , whatever had been done to minimise the damage , he 'd have a headache by now , and she could n't stop herself feeling an immediate pang of sympathy . |
| 27 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |
| 28 | There was confirmation from Cathery , not only that this was true , but that , in the absence of Wilson in America , everything possible had been done to meet the complaints of the Southampton Branch . |
| 29 | soc : And I suppose you 'd like more of the same so you can go on pinpointing variation and replicate the studies which have been done to show the same thing in different places , or maybe to include a few more explanatory variables in your statistical model ? |
| 30 | While everyone agrees that far more could , and should , have been done to contain the AIDS epidemic , the key issue now is that positive steps can still be taken . |