Example sentences of "do [adj] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could n't do that with the scythe . ’ |
| 2 | You know , you can do this with the back ! |
| 3 | You may do this with the juice of plums , gooseberries , apricots , figs , or any juicy fruit . " |
| 4 | She ca n't do much with the place until probate is granted . ’ |
| 5 | Of course it is much better to have further yarn masts , as they come in handy for even normal two-colour knitting , where they can do away with the necessity to remove one yarn and re-thread with waste yarn when you need to remove work on waste . |
| 6 | She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss . |
| 7 | Within a year or two the government ( of whichever party ) is expected to put to Parliament a radical reform which would do away with the charade of having to prove marriage breakdown . |
| 8 | The next step will be ready meals — Chinese , pastas and curries in single portions that will do away with the need for cooking . |
| 9 | Apart from helping to reduce patient waiting lists it could do away with the need for exploratory operations in certain cases , particularly spinal and knee complaints . |
| 10 | The new E-mail and V-mail based communication system should do away with the need for constant phone calls between warehouse and depot when such hiccups occur . |
| 11 | Kucan told the Slovenian Assembly on July 23 that the new constitution would do away with the class principle of the old political system , placing the individual rather than the collective at the centre of the political stage . |
| 12 | This system will do away with the careerist politicians and their parasitical political parties . |
| 13 | But the way in which the New Critics developed Eliot 's axiom did not entirely do away with the author : instead , by shifting his position from the outside to the inside of the text , they merely justified a shift in methodology from the biographical to the words-on-the-page approach . |