Example sentences of "do [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped Nassim was making enough on the insurance claim to have the job done properly in the not-too-distant future . |
| 2 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 3 | Nina was built too late to compete with other accelerators that had done most of the early work , leaving Daresbury with little else to follow up , says Irvine : ‘ It was a classic case of too little , too late . ’ |
| 4 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 5 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 6 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 8 | The negotiating cell of the gang had brutally dismantled Ubaldo Valesio 's skull with a sub machine gun while the hard men who had executed Ruggerio had done so with a small hand-gun , a bedside toy for nervous householders . |
| 9 | I have done so with the earnest endeavour to be able to speak to that brief , but I have to start by declaring failure and announcing that the results have been negative . |
| 10 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 11 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , 12 members of the Cabinet did visit the shrine on Aug. 15 ( and at least three others had visited it earlier in the month ) , although most claimed that they had done so in a private capacity . |
| 13 | Accordingly , where humanities scholars have engaged the computer in text creation and analysis , they have done so in a sophisticated way . |
| 14 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 15 | These Part II privileges are " subject to explanation and contradiction " — which means that they will not apply where an editor or programme controller has refused the plaintiff 's request to publish a reasonable statement in reply , or has done so in an inadequate manner . |
| 16 | She is in good form and hoping to break the 10-hour barrier today , having already done so in the European Ironman in August , where she took an individual bronze and a team gold medal . |
| 17 | Whatever dread and resentment the Soviet regime inspires amongst its own population , that regime has solved the perennial problem of Russia 's vulnerability , and is seen to have done so by the common people of the land . |
| 18 | In an experiment , leaf-cutter ants of the species Atta texana had to follow a trail by walking along a plastic roadway placed just above the trail ; they followed the trail as usual , but must have done so by the airborne odour of evaporated scent . |
| 19 | There 's some in Nottingham , in one of the mus museum , that has the Nottingham coat of arms , I think it has the council house and various things , and it 's all done mechanically on a huge machine that er is a repetition in each bay It 's probably thirty , forty foot long , but in each bay of about seven foot it 's separate curtain . |
| 20 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 21 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
| 22 | Many Opposition Members who will obey the three-line Whip and vote against the motion will do so with a heavy heart . |
| 23 | ‘ We are going forward into the future and will do so with a united front , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Now , I can do so with a clear conscience : Col. Sutherland 's book is the only substantial and comprehensive single reference on SF from its obscure beginnings in the early days of the Cold War to its subsequent apotheosis in Vietnam , with its somewhat confused role in the 1980s . |
| 25 | If parents choose to proceed on this basis , they should do so with the full understanding that they may be aborting a child capable of experiencing as full and satisfying a life as anyone else . |
| 26 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 27 | This study will examine such problems , as and when they arise — and will do so through an ethnographic grasp of cultural differences and misunderstandings on topics that might range from the price of butter to question of minorities , language , drugs and terror . |
| 28 | If I want to leave a room , I must do so by the limited number of means available to me , which will be by the door or the windows ; if they are locked , I can not leave . |
| 29 | Even so-called ‘ fundamentalists ’ usually insist that although it is an axiom of faith that God really created the world , he did not necessarily do so in a literal six days of twenty-four hours each . |
| 30 | They may do so in a non-Compact institution in which case responsibility for " cashing in " the Compact entitlement must rest with the student . |