Example sentences of "to do [noun] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who are genuinely trying to do damage to the party . |
| 2 | Hugh and Prior Robert had arrived at the priory late in the evening , paid their respects to the prior , attended Vespers to do reverence to the saints of the foundation , Saints Oswald and Wulstan , and taken Herluin and his attendants into their confidence about the loss , or at the very least the misplacement , of Saint Winifred 's reliquary ; with a sharp eye , at least on Hugh 's part , for the way the news was received . |
| 3 | ‘ Norlite is terribly sorry and knows it has to do things to the letter in future . ’ |
| 4 | In 1365 the succession dispute in Brittany was solved in an agreement , the Treaty of Guêrande , under which John de Montfort , son of the John de Montfort who had allied with Edward III in 1341 , became duke but agreed to do homage to the King of France , though many Englishmen remained in the ducal household , and some English captains who owed their fortunes to war , such as Robert Knolles , stayed on in the duchy . |
| 5 | I wish to correct a wrong impression that has gained some credence amongst the ignorant and unreasoning public , that sign language — the agency through which we inter.exchange thought and opinion — is calculated to do injury to the intelligence of the deaf and dumb . |
| 6 | To describe the family of today as a relatively autonomous , conjugally-based unit is probably the best way to do justice to the variety of patterns that not only persist but which continue to evolve and develop , and to recognize some of the sources of contradiction and tension within the family as well as some of the sources of strength . |
| 7 | I have been arguing for institutions of higher education to do justice to the idea of a culture of critical discourse ( as Gouldner puts it ) . |
| 8 | Only a resolutely historical critical approach such as this can begin to do justice to the life and work of Paul Nizan , inextricably enmeshed as it is in the illusions , deceits , hopes , aspirations , successes and failures of its time . |
| 9 | They tend to treat language as an unproblematic expression of women 's experience , and they are too directed by the need for feminist change to do justice to the unconscious . |
| 10 | The philosophy of the phantasm may , however , help us to do justice to the event of Foucault himself . |
| 11 | I received twenty completed record sheets — and a load of very apologetic letters explaining why the remainder had been unable to do justice to the trial . |
| 12 | In order to make their claim that his decentred totality is still expressive and therefore essentialist , they have to ignore the arguments about temporality in the critique of the Hegelian essential section as ‘ the co-existence of presence ’ , and thus fail to do justice to the way in which Althusser constructs , as Foucault puts it , ‘ a counter-memory — a transformation of history into a totally different form of time ’ . |
| 13 | To do justice to the complexities Or the situation , the universities have assembled a research team which represents a wide range of social and environmental sciences . |
| 14 | Berkeley 's making of ideas into things needs to do justice to the thought that we all ( including God , for Berkeley ) perceive the same things . |
| 15 | It is , of course , impossible to do justice to the thought of a religious tradition with one or two quotations . |
| 16 | In order to do justice to the Jesus of history , one must effectively divest oneself of preconceptions — and especially of the preconceptions fostered by subsequent tradition . |
| 17 | The central point I want to make is the general one , not just about culling : namely , that there really are arguments on both sides and we have to do justice to the complexity of the problem . |
| 18 | In an attempt to do justice to the complexity of opinions , the research comprises three parts : a national attitude survey , to determine the structure of attitudes at one point in time ; follow-up interviews with a small number of respondents to the national survey , in which the experience of using various welfare services is being explored in detail ; and the re-analysis of information from previous surveys on similar topics , to see whether attitudes have changed much in recent years . |
| 19 | In all cases , the challenge to the documentation specialist remains the same : how to do justice to the objects in order to create an accurate and sufficiently detailed record of the object to allow it to be identified with confidence . |
| 20 | But the script is ultimately too spare to do justice to the book . |
| 21 | I am wary of being too emotive in this paper but also concerned to do justice to the seriousness of the struggle for health that people and their movements are undertaking in many parts of the world , including the Philippines . |
| 22 | But what sort of machine do you need to do justice to the application . |
| 23 | It would need the pen of a Zola to do justice to the reality and appalling intensity of the famine in these parts ( Saratov and Samara ) . |
| 24 | Answering questions such as ‘ How do you like my new suit ? ’ or ‘ Is the pie I just baked okay ? ’ often requires knowledge of the other person 's filter to do justice to the situation . |
| 25 | It is important to do justice to the situation , which necessarily involves a description of a very remarkable woman for whom I have considerable respect . |
| 26 | Hungry as she was , Claudia found it difficult to do justice to the meal . |
| 27 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 28 | It is impossible to do justice to the beauty of the poem in such a brief account . |
| 29 | Yet there are certain advantages with the modern orchestra ; the violin section , for example , which often fails in an ‘ authentic ’ set-up to do justice to the importance of what the first violins , in particular , have to say . |