Example sentences of "is do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually it is done during the summer , certainly for my better clothes . |
| 2 | These figures underlie a lively debate about how the government can reduce its interest costs even if ( not an unfair assumption ) little is done about the deficit . |
| 3 | This , Lawrence Stone argues , is done through the structuring of relationships , and through methods of children-rearing . |
| 4 | This is done through the exchange equalization account . |
| 5 | The issue of notes is done through the Issue Department , which organizes their printing . |
| 6 | That is done through the planning system and the fact that appeals are heard not by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State but by the Department of the Environment . |
| 7 | The Amateur Athletic Association have clung to their name despite condoning the principle that athletes be paid — often very large sums — provided it is done through the setting up of ‘ trust funds ’ . |
| 8 | One reason for the nonstandard approach in the USA is that much of the investigatory work undertaken by the GAO is done at the request of the Congress . |
| 9 | The other issue arising here is whether you take the cost of the chairs out of the asset account and show them as an expense each time a sale is made or whether this is done at the end of the month . |
| 10 | Most billing on other cases is done at the end of the case . |
| 11 | This is done at the expense of the external validity , i.e. the applicability of the results to the population as a whole . |
| 12 | Harm , and serious harm is done to the memory of Pope John when one attributes to him attitudes he did not have . |
| 13 | At the very least it would ensure that no further harm is done to the child and at best , that his wellbeing was enhanced in every possible way ( p. 45 ) . |
| 14 | Process comprises all that is done to the patient with these resources , both clinically ( diagnostic and therapeutic procedures ) and nonclinically ( nursing care , " hotel " services , etc ) . |
| 15 | The sexual act does violate the child , but the real damage is done to the psyche , wherein lies the trauma — the memory , the damage to self esteem . |
| 16 | The problem here is not so much to prevent partners leaving before reaching retirement age ( any such general prohibition would be unrealistically restrictive in all but a few firms ) as to ensure that as little damage is done to the firm as possible when they do . |
| 17 | The term taille means ‘ cut ’ and that is precisely what is done to the marc in the maie after the cuvée has been extracted . |
| 18 | Thus Richard Dyer has argued of gay machismo that , by taking the traditional signs of masculinity and ‘ eroticising them in a blatantly homosexual context , much mischief is done to the security with which ‘ men' ’ are defined in society , and by which their power is secured' ( ‘ Getting Over the Rainbow ’ , 61 ) . |
| 19 | The Left in the Labour Party use the House to register their protests against Right-wing members and measures , whichever party is in power , though many of them consider that once this is done on the floor of the House and the outside public has been informed of their dissent , they will support their leaders in committee and in the division lobbies . |
| 20 | They look at a map , draw a line and produce leaflets but nothing is done on the ground to withstand the pressure of hundreds of people following the route . |
| 21 | The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board . |
| 22 | This is done on the basis of the objects of feeling which are mapped in our inner worlds . |
| 23 | Whether that is done on the basis of relying on the goodwill of the people in private care or whether it is done through regulation is something that 1 ) we have to decide our preference on and 2 ) we have to lobby government quite hard on . |
| 24 | The work takes many hours and is done with the type and number of stitches appropriate to the fabric and in the way demanded by the factory . |
| 25 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 26 | The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money . |
| 27 | A given administrative arrangement is neither good nor bad … what really counts is what is done with the group once it is established … |
| 28 | Although manual focus is a useful feature , almost all camcorder operation is done with the lens set to auto focus ( AF ) . |
| 29 | Finally , notice that the question of mortgaging the future hinges crucially on what is done with the privatization revenue . |
| 30 | He is done with the face way too soon . |