Example sentences of "do [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 2 | What can teachers do to promote mathematics for a multicultural society ? |
| 3 | The testing of theories or , more accurately , hypotheses derived from theories , was to be done using principles of experimental design and statistical testing . |
| 4 | Everything should be done to increase choice in respect of schools . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what legal advice is available to Vietnamese boat people during the screening process when they claim refugee status ; what is done to inform applicants for refugee status of their rights ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 6 | In response to criticisms that not enough was being done to inform people in high risk areas — and some level of randon is present virtually everywhere — the Department of the Environment recently sent out a leaflet to every house in the south west of England . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , given that it will not do to define law as a means to institutionalise dispute-resolution and so inhibit unregulated conflict , we may surely expect the control of force to be a major objective of law . |
| 8 | Bombers could be made invisible to radar , maintained an American author in New Scientist , the issue also carrying a discussion of what scientists could do to halt development of more appalling weapons even than those in existence . |
| 9 | There was much that the United States could do to counter communism in the Cold War . |
| 10 | We could do do things like that |
| 11 | Comment : Sometimes mistakenly done to create commonality by people who assume that others share their grievances . |
| 12 | Build on it , as I have done to create permutations of shape . |
| 13 | I think it is important to stress to readers that sometimes there is something you can do to help fish in distress . |
| 14 | New Mexico-based Digital Instrumentation Technology has announced TransferPro , software that lets users do file operations between workstations , PCs and Macs like copying , moving , deleting , renaming and creating . |
| 15 | It will be at least five years , Earle estimates , before users creep away from their mainframe dependencies , though recent research it has done shows 10% of major mainframe users do want to talk about downsizing their operations . |
| 16 | As he spoke there were others who were not enjoying themselves quite so much , for the wind had got up and men were finding out what the soft spring this year had done to nurture growth in the grass lurking on either side of the fairways . |
| 17 | He reminded me of a barrister I had once watched interrogating a hostile witness and I was sure his switch to English was not for my benefit , it was done to put Rodriguez at a disadvantage . |
| 18 | Is there anything I can do to press charges against these men ? |
| 19 | Making replicas of existing chairs is generally done to extend sets of antique chairs , but it can also prove a very useful introduction to chair-making techniques . |
| 20 | It is probably best to begin with the focus statement in the introduction to each history unit , and ensure that the work done takes account of this . |
| 21 | The individual is never informed of what it is he ( sic ) is alleged to have done to give rise to the suspicion ; nor , indeed , is it necessary that he be convicted of any offence . |
| 22 | Erm downward convergence are generally done to reduce embarrassment between people of different statuses . |
| 23 | Indeed , as workers come to recognise that the corporatist game is rigged against them — wage restraint in return for the " benefits " of a social contract , whilst everything is done to foster profits for the capitalists — they will rebel against it . |
| 24 | Does the Minister agree that something must be done to control imports of the drug known as Ecstasy , which is not merely creeping into schools in London but has reached teenagers in my constituency in south Devon ? |
| 25 | If this conclusion is correct then either much more may need to be done to force changes in the underlying culture of Whitehall , or the FMI may be laid ‘ to rest as soon as the architect [ Mrs Thatcher ] is removed ’ ( Gray and Jenkins , 1984 , p. 427 ) . |
| 26 | Whatever may be done to turn CD-ROM into a vehicle for multimedia , it is never likely to appeal in volume to the consumer market . |
| 27 | May I begin this afternoon by adding my thanks to those of previous speakers for all that you 've done to raise money for Save The Children during the past year you are tremendous . |
| 28 | What the appearance of de Castelnau had done to raise morale at the various HQs , the mere name of Pétain did among the ordinary soldiers . |
| 29 | It gave me a much clearer idea of what must be done to raise interest in sustainability in Wales . |
| 30 | As the talk developed , it became apparent that there were things which ‘ we ’ could do to alter matters in Lesotho . |