Example sentences of "do [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Very few writers , in Cusick 's experience , do much in the way of scene setting , and so a lot has to come from reading the dialogue and forming impressions in the mind .
2 We don t do much in the garden — a bit of weeding or raking leaves and that , but I like it anyhow .
3 Teachers must rise to the task of making sure that when parents come to judge schools they do so in a way which identifies — and , in so doing , promotes — genuine quality .
4 People do give support to their kin but they do so in a way which is patchy , possibly idiosyncratic , and which certainly can not be predicted simply from knowing how they are related to each other .
5 Those who now come to read Russian at Nottingham do so in a world much changed from that when I entered the Department twenty years ago .
6 Another possibility is that those going into residential homes shortly before their death do so in a crisis situation .
7 Certainly it was once hoped , particularly after the devastation of the last war , that modern architecture might with the aid of science and technology provide mankind with a wholly satisfying new environment — and do so in a matter of a few decades .
8 But are the situations which produce discontent in one area substantially different from those which do so in the other ?
9 I do so in the knowledge that the fundamental question appears to have been left open by Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re T. ( Adult : Refusal of Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 782 , and in the knowledge that there is no English authority which is directly in point .
10 Those who fight rear guard actions in the USSR do so in the calculation and gamble that they are useful enough to higher-ups to be screened and protected .
11 And I do so in the desire to serve you and in the power of the Holy Spirit .
12 The British must refine a new history curriculum to show the national genius and thus the inferiority of all others , and do so in the face of the sleepy yawns of the poor pupils .
13 Secondly , it seems that the courts construe business sale covenants more liberally than restraints of trade in employment contracts and do so in an effort to make business sale covenants more easily enforceable : Ronbar Enterprises Ltd v Green [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 815 .
14 When someone asks a government for bloodwealth , they not only threaten bloodshed if it is not forthcoming , but do so in an idiom which denies the government 's claim to superiority , puts it on an equal footing , treats it as just another tribe .
15 Clown Loach do best in a shoal .
16 But there were perfectly good ways of preserving food without refrigeration , which were followed even more diligently than we do nowadays in the time of the deep freeze .
17 ‘ Musicals always do well in a recession because people want escapism , ’ says Patrick O'Connor of the New Grove Dictionary Of Opera .
18 The final point , which is related to the previous point , is that it is a mystery to some people why , despite the fact they do well in the squad , they still do n't get selected .
19 if I do well in the exam as I did last time round , yeah
20 Africans take failure far more seriously than you do here in the West . ’
21 Er yes , the , the , I think the one bit of it that is not Mao 's is that , is that you do unfortunately in a sense sense have these statements from the , the various bureaux and this is a , th this absolute terror is okay .
22 Those who fail or do poorly in an examination , or some other competitive test , find consolation in the wiles of witchcraft .
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