Example sentences of "do [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was , that meant there were livestock in the room and the landlady had done that to stop these things falling from the wall onto the blankets . |
| 2 | The scheme has done little to create new demand . |
| 3 | In the petrochemicals industry , the advent of non-traditional exporters — Saudi Arabia , Brazil , Canada — has done little to disturb existing structures . |
| 4 | The contraction of the British manufacturing base over the last decade had done little to reduce overall concentration . |
| 5 | Rehabilitation programmes have served a valuable role in conservation education , and in rescuing pets and animals from cleared habitat , but have done little to boost wild populations — indeed , they could endanger them . |
| 6 | The Government have done little to encourage such schemes . |
| 7 | The ANC 's elliptical denial that it was ‘ organisationally implicated ’ has done little to calm white people 's doubts about its commitment to the rule of law . |
| 8 | Critics claimed that economic success had done little to alleviate fundamental problems of poverty and the grossly unequal distribution of income . |
| 9 | Because I can not rely on my conscious memory of my own earliest moments , I can do little to remedy this omission . |
| 10 | They say it 'll do little to bring long-term trade to the city , and will only encourge tour operators to use Oxford as a picturesque bus-stop . |
| 11 | That would probably do little to bring so-called advances on royalties back to a more sensible level , but it might give the publisher some added stability , and therefore a greater incentive to put sustained effort into an author 's career . |
| 12 | CSOs may well assist doctors in the management of some difficult patients , but they will do little to assist those patients who have been denied proper care and treatment — whether through lack of resources , shortage of hospital beds , or ineffective use and misunderstanding of the powers already available under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 13 | The provisions which permit the confiscation of the literary proceeds of crime may do little to prevent this kind of journalism , which is arguably more repugnant than the profits made by offenders who may merely be pawns in a ratings or circulation war . |
| 14 | Oh I thought I 'll do that to save another hose . |
| 15 | But we 'll do that using adaptive expectations okay right . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't do that to prove some sort of mastery over you , ’ he said evenly , and she drew in her breath sharply , wondering if he read her mind . |
| 17 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 18 | And I told him that er all about it , but I said do they make , do they do this puddling these days , he says yes at West Bromwich they still do it , but er they used to do it up on |
| 19 | Yeah , I I should think she like she 's done some done naughty things |
| 20 | Schools can do much to foster good behaviour and attainments and … even in a disadvantaged area schools can be a force for good . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , a fresh outlook and the readiness to explore and experiment will do much to put new life into the Church 's music . |
| 22 | Some single people too will need to gain special compensatory measures , although the phasing in of the proposal will do much to minimize any losses . |
| 23 | The widespread availability of cheap , cloned Taq polymerase rather than the purified enzyme will do much to make this test , currently at the cutting edge of molecular diology , affordable in the district general hospital laboratory . |
| 24 | Pvc liners ( some are reinforced with nylon or Terylene ) should last for many years , but do n't be too influenced by the strength claims of the reinforced liners — the most likely cause of damage is piercing ( from a stone , children poking sharp sticks into the pond , or accidents with the garden fork ) , and the reinforcement used wo n't do much to avoid this kind of mishap . |
| 25 | you can do much to help other people , whether they be your superiors , associates , colleagues or subordinates , to modify their feelings and behaviour for better . |
| 26 | I suspect that the Secretary of State 's inability to press that policy on the industry , and the industry 's failure to adopt it voluntarily before now , has done much to heighten public awareness of the reticence of the Secretary of State and of the industry to take the issue as seriously as they might . |
| 27 | Recent initiatives such as the National Writing Project and the National Oracy Project have done much to foster such developments and to disseminate good practice . |
| 28 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |
| 29 | Peter Baxter , producer and cricket-lover who had done much to restore outside sports broadcasting , confessed himself happy . |
| 30 | Sir Nicholas Hunt of Eurotunnel , writing in Annales des Mines , claimed that the Kent Impact Study had done much to reassure local opinion about the Tunnel and that the doubters were now in a minority . |