Example sentences of "do in the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George elected himself to go and see what could be done in the way of sample jars and presently returned with gifts from the Chinese cook in the dome car , in the shape of four rinsed-out plastic tomato-sauce bottles rescued from the rubbish bin . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She even promised she would speak to Albert and see what could be done in the way of money . |
| 4 | Well , so nothing , if the novel you have written is a good one and if nothing that you have done in the way of title , type of story , original laying-out of the situation has not broken that contract with the reader which says , " This will be a crime novel , it will entertain you first of all though it may cause you a little to think " . |
| 5 | Initially concerned with the advancement of these aims through the provision of low cost holidays abroad , rapid early success led to the extension of operations to the home market with publicity material stressing the proletarian nature of the enterprise : ‘ Trips for the workers ; Holidays to suit all pockets ’ ; ‘ What Cooks have done in the way of facilitating travel for the upper-middle and middling-middle classes , the WTA are arranging to do for the masses . ’ |
| 6 | The proposers , Neil McLean and Mel Collier , head and deputy head of library services at PCL , wanted to see what could usefully be done in the way of library automation using networked microcomputers rather than the conventional multi-user access to a mainframe or large mini . |
| 7 | Some interesting and useful things can be done in the way of improving specific item search systems , but only if the catalogue has considerable " knowledge " of bibliographical items ( for example , one can envisage a catalogue which could say , " We have n't got Joseph Matthews on online catalogue screen displays , but there is an article in Library trends which might be of some interest " ) . |
| 8 | Not be critical and unpleasant about everything that 's been done in the way of traffic calming . |
| 9 | So with you mentioning leather then it leads me onto another question erm was there much done in the way of leather work in the Caldmore area ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Looking haggard , drawn , and almost close to tears , Keith , 34 , said : ‘ Oh God , this is the most difficult interview I 've ever done in the whole of my life . |
| 12 | The man himself was affecting her more powerfully than any other man had ever done in the whole of her life . |
| 13 | When I awake , the sickness has gone , but the high has remained and I feel fitter than I have done in the whole of our visit . |
| 14 | If his work needs to be considered in the context of the contemporary politics of the Communist Party , as several commentators have stressed , it also requires reference to work done in the history of the sciences , particularly that of Gaston Bachelard in the history of physics and chemistry , his pupil Georges Canguilhem in the life sciences , and Jean Cavaillès in mathematics . |
| 15 | We have seen that decisions and acts may be subject to judicial review if they are made or done in the exercise of public functions , whether those functions are conferred by statute or common law or neither . |
| 16 | The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Because she has this afternoon job , she must get through her own work in the mornings ; but she gets her work done in the mornings in order to create time for a job . |
| 20 | Large sphincterotomies are usualy done in the hope of extracting big stones . |
| 21 | This is now done in the lab by optical printing . |
| 22 | [ 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 ) . ] |
| 23 | Other groundbreaking work was reportedly done in the areas of fault tolerance support and compiler optimisation . |
| 24 | But even this is done in the name of a supposed ‘ immediate sensuous charge ’ rather than any more extended critical capacity of art or the aesthetic . |
| 25 | Thus Brian Way opened the door to all kinds of activities ( games , relaxation exercises , ‘ warm-ups ’ and sensitivity exercises , etc. ) to be done in the name of drama . |
| 26 | His Education Survey 2 Drama ( 1967 ) , totally lacking in officialese , lucidly , wittily reports on a rag-bag of activities done in the name of drama and with an almost total lack of rationale behind the subject . |
| 27 | All this has been done in the name of spurious progress : to create jobs in rural communities , provide employment . |
| 28 | Even if all informed people could agree concerning what animal welfare is , and how well various animals are faring — and these are large assumptions — the animal welfarist 's position would remain controversial because of how it answers the question ‘ What may be done in the name of , or in pursuit of , animal welfare ? ’ |
| 29 | All this is being done in the name of free enterprise . |
| 30 | We are not arguing that either is necessarily an illegitimate exercise , only that it is significant that these things are done in the name of urban regeneration . |