Example sentences of "it [verb] done in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 2 | We did not want the ANL to claim credit for the march by swamping it with its placards ( as it has done in the past ) when it played no part in the march 's organisation . |
| 3 | That is to say , credit should figure far more prominently in education than it has done in the past . |
| 4 | Since the level of owner-occupation is rising , and the number of future retirees entitled to some form of contributory pension will exceed the current number , it seems likely that private saving will play a greater role in determining the economic status of the elderly in the future than it has done in the past . |
| 5 | That may well mean that waste disposal should cost more than it has done in the past . |
| 6 | The Defence Minister , Moshe Arens , said : " Israel will continue to do what it has done in the past . |
| 7 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 8 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 9 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 10 | The population of the capital grew dramatically in the 18th and 19th centuries , just as it had done in the 17th , and despite the fact that its death rate was higher than the national average . |
| 11 | The company discussed the situation with PW which , while stressing it could not give an audit report , was prepared to say what it had done in the form of a review to GRE 's directors . |
| 12 | The message was clear : Beijing University had a special character and wanted to go its own way , as it had done in the past , and lead other universities in the process . |
| 13 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 14 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 15 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 16 | The room turned , as it had done in the parties of her youth . |
| 17 | But American imperialism was on the alert to intervene as it had done in the past ’ ( Roy : 1964 , p. 346 ) . |
| 18 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
| 19 | Damaged by the Gulf crisis and still without having achieved electoral reform , Kaifu 's position by the end of 1990 looked considerably less secure than it had done in the immediate aftermath of the February elections . |
| 20 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 21 | Now , I 've heard what the move move movers have had to say , and you did , I do n't need to tell conference that most of the business of running the country is actually done outside of the chamber itself , it 's done in the various committees I mean , Dennis Skinner was mentioned there . |
| 22 | Well not if it 's done in the pressure cooker cos it 'll come out all soft . |
| 23 | I think the approach of parents is very often really quite a simple one erm that they have a number of very well defined expectations of the school and that is as far as one individual parent is concerned , that the parents wants the child to go to the school , he wants that child properly controlled , provided that it 's done in the way in which he particularly approves , and if you have fifteen hundred different parents there might be fourteen hundred and eighty five different techniques at work here , and then he wants the child simultaneously to be successful and happy . |