Example sentences of "be do [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be done with a reaper and binder or by scythe fitted with a special cradle . |
| 2 | This is a key area where professional accountants have already begun to experiment — the 1991 environmental accounts of the Dutch company BSO/Origin , for instance , are reproduced and show what can be done with a bit of imagination and lateral thinking . |
| 3 | They 've proved it can be done with a bit of dignity , and we 'd like to achieve that . |
| 4 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 5 | The Institute would be in a strong position , and the NVQ Committee would decide how assessments were to be done with a City and Guilds involvement . |
| 6 | In the parlance of Scotland 's street — talk , Baxter was ‘ dead gallus ’ , everything had to be done with a swagger and a smile . |
| 7 | This may be done for a variety of reasons including someone 's anxiety that the original figures were just too unlikely to be reliable . |
| 8 | Now I ai n't gon na be done for a telly licence . |
| 9 | I do not see how this can be done without a trial of both the action and the claim to contribution . |
| 10 | Turkey argued that this could not be done without a decision of the Mixed Commission . |
| 11 | ‘ At present the Government 's mind-set appears to be that nothing can be done without a smile of approval from Dublin , which never comes . |
| 12 | In fact it 's going to be done through a school anyway , it 's not desperately relevant |
| 13 | This can only be done through a committee and then the information will be sent to all members of the committee . |
| 14 | This should be done through a solicitor on a form drawn up , signed , registered and stamped . |
| 15 | Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’ |
| 16 | It 's typical of the states I get in here I suddenly told myself that the digging would have to be done over a number of days , the only stupid thing was to expect to do it all in one . |
| 17 | ‘ A full and proper economic evaluation is overdue and should be done as a precondition to the allocation of resources beyond 1991 . ’ |
| 18 | So , the underlying part of the contract , as I understand it with Bowie , was that he was going to make an album with Tony Visconti and that song had to be done as a single . |
| 19 | This involves a slight drop in picture quality , but the copying can be done as a part of the editing routine ( see page 82 ) and the loss in quality is then offset by improvements in presentation that editing inevitably brings . |
| 20 | After the success of Twin Peaks , ABC executives are reportedly considering more high risk shows including CopRock , the first police show to be done as a musical in the pilot , a jury signs the verdict in a song composed by Randy Newman . |
| 21 | Note that in certain cases this has to be done as a formality and does not necessarily mean that there is anything suspicious about the death . |
| 22 | We expected that if a task was set as a group task , then it should be done as a group . |
| 23 | But further research was needed on climate change : ‘ Before we can translate this into practical policy and precise targets , there is a lot of work to be done as a matter of urgency . ’ |
| 24 | But certain things should be done as a matter of course . |
| 25 | I think that really does lead us back to the starting point which is the County Council 's view that er er that comprehensive study needs to be done as a matter of urgency and steps are being taken to get that work moving very soon now . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the training is sometimes unavoidably accompanied by the infliction of punishment in some form or other , but as is very well-known , this should never be done as a result of a fit of anger . |
| 27 | As in all significant campaigns , quality education has to be led from the front , with the manager showing the commitment and leadership which make others realise that things can and will be done as a result . |
| 28 | What can be done on a day that is to have no subsequent day ? |
| 29 | There is , it seems , nothing that can not be done on a croquet lawn that can be done on a golf fairway . |
| 30 | Much of the software debugging can initially be done on a computer . |