Example sentences of "the [noun] do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His three first-half points helped Magherafelt to a 0–6 to 0–3 interval lead , and the defence did the rest . |
| 2 | In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy . |
| 3 | I have not been in the House of Lords very long , so on the heritage front , I have n't had the opportunity to do a great deal yet . |
| 4 | Giovanna , smiling as she left , said that the bambina had never stirred and she had taken the opportunity to do a pile of ironing . |
| 5 | Obviously with the coming of two elections shortly we have the opportunity to do a lot more canvassing and contact more members of the public and to draw in new members from there . |
| 6 | Tom Jones says that Central has given him the opportunity to do a musical show which no-one else is doing . |
| 7 | I went into dyslexia because when I did that course we had the opportunity to do a special study of a subject of our own choice and I spent a lot of time on dyslexia because I was already interested in it before I started . |
| 8 | ‘ I think when we lose people , it 's more upsetting if they just suddenly die and we have n't had the opportunity to do the tending and caring . |
| 9 | It was a pity he did n't get the opportunity to do the same against France in the final . |
| 10 | The Knack also provided Crawford with the opportunity to do the sort of daredevil stunts for which he would later become famous . |
| 11 | Imagination you 've got the opportunity to do the call again . |
| 12 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 13 | Because I know the scouts do the Tesco one and whenever they are put in these cardboard boxes they have to be sorted so somebody must sort them . |
| 14 | In the active voice the subject of the sentence does the action . |
| 15 | I 'd spent the afternoon doing a strip cartoon of him . |
| 16 | Only if this is the case does the tax rate in the system not climb sharply . |
| 17 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 18 | ‘ We told the family how bad he was and won their permission for the vet to do the kind thing . ’ |
| 19 | Winterbottom , who normally prefers to let his contributions on the field do the talking for him , said yesterday : ‘ The Quins get stick from everyone , little of which has any relation to fact . |
| 20 | Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up ! |
| 21 | We feed the information into a computer and the computer does the processing for us . |
| 22 | Between the wars the Germans did a good deal of research on nailed joints and also invented new and clever forms of mechanical connectors . |
| 23 | The British Standards Institution will probably adopt it virtually word for word , as will the German DIN ( not surprising — the Germans did the original work ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of these ladies may never have taken an exam in their lives , ’ says Sue , ‘ and getting the certificate does a lot in terms of confidence building . |
| 25 | Lifting her out of the water we were totally silent , and neither of us seemed to be willing to commit ourselves on a weight so we just put her in the sling and let the scales do the talking . |
| 26 | He had no clear view of the future , except that it must excel the present , as the present did the past . |
| 27 | Later administrators simply argued , correctly , that the Masai did no harm to game . |
| 28 | So the , the groups are very important though , because the groups do a great deal of the work for Amnesty , cos Amnesty 's different from many organisations erm in that er , what the groups do , particularly the letter writing erm , helps to make the organisation work , it 's not just a matter of raising money , we do things to , to fund raise or two , er have a proper publicity erm , the le the letters we write for prisoners and helps Amnesty to do it 's work and not many other organisations operate like that . |
| 29 | Frances and Miles went off to the kitchen to do the washing-up ( and , no doubt , to talk annuities ) , leaving Charles to entertain the children . |
| 30 | Erm did you work in the kitchen doing a different job than you were doing ? |