Example sentences of "do [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Sayeth the protector — and pray God he may be a protector ! — that the king doth lack a playfellow ? ’ |
| 2 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 3 | This may be done using a frequency distribution from a domain corpus . |
| 4 | BELOW Clearing the modern deposits from an archaeological site is often done using a machine , with an archaeologist keeping watch in case anything is uncovered by the machine . |
| 5 | An oesophagogram done using a water soluble contrast ( Gastroconray ) showed a minor leak from the oesophagus . |
| 6 | When a run was done using a lexicon without letter names , the number of paths produced was a few orders of magnitude less than when these words were included.2 Similarly function words could be treated differently from content words . |
| 7 | The micropipettes are easy to pull by hand using 1.2 mm tubing ( Section 5.3.6 ) although an electrode puller can be used and the squaring and polishing is done using a microforge . |
| 8 | The test was done using a 16-mile loop of glass fibre , lasers , amplifiers and filters to prove that solitons can provide the key to future ultra-high capacity transmission . |
| 9 | This can be done using a number of different comparisons : |
| 10 | The present study was done to establish a dose response relationship for the trophic effect of gastrin on the enterochromaffin like cells by giving exogenous gastrin in graded doses . |
| 11 | In London , some of the stories about what pianists would do to secure a tour , a recording contract , a broadcast , had left Mina shattered . |
| 12 | ‘ And what have you done to deserve a tip ? |
| 13 | Her right hand tingled to smack his arrogant face , but she remembered her drama coach 's advice , consciously releasing her tension in a long , draining breath ; then she said as clearly and cuttingly as she could , ‘ Whatever has Peter done to deserve a rat like you for a brother ? |
| 14 | Khrushchev 's dry comment on the Soviet lack of ‘ overkill ’ was : ‘ What good does it do to annihilate a country twice ? |
| 15 | That 's why today , even though he won a world title without throwing a punch , he walks tall , convinced everything possible was done to secure a deal with Riddick Bowe . |
| 16 | Q. What could the politicians do to create a climate in which you can prosper still further ? |
| 17 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 18 | The need for better links between the ES and the Northern Ireland Training and Employment Agency , was highlighted by work being done to create an information technology system to link European Community member states . |
| 19 | Stephen refers to a crime being excusable if the defendant can show as one of the requisites that what was done was done to avoid a consequence which could not otherwise have been avoided , and which , if not done , would have inflicted harm on him or on others he was bound to protect . |
| 20 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 21 | But I 'd be surprised if they had n't a front-runner in mind , because there will be a lot of hard work to be done getting a replacement this summer . |
| 22 | It would not do to exalt a figure who had been executed by the Romans for crimes against the Empire . |
| 23 | Wing specialists do n't even understand wings with full mathematical precision : they can predict how a wing will behave in turbulent conditions , only by examining a model in a wind tunnel or a computer simulation — the sort of thing a biologist might do to understand an animal . |
| 24 | It would not do to deify a rebel against Rome . |
| 25 | It is recorded that on 4 January 1965 ‘ Mr R J Henderson said that he thought something should be done to start a Building Fund . ’ |
| 26 | This was done to allow a comparison of risk-related information to other information in order to test the assumption that the recognition results relied on attention focusing causing specific memory enhancements for risk-related information . |
| 27 | From the drafter 's point of view there is clearly nothing that can be done to save a clause rendered ineffective by the Act ; however , where a clause is subject to a test of reasonableness ( which will be more common in relation to clauses included in standard terms ) the drafter should try to ensure that the clause can satisfy the test . |
| 28 | Bettleheim in The Uses of Enchantment provides an apt summary of what a story must do to hold a child 's interest and ‘ enrich his ( sic ) life ’ . |
| 29 | How that is to be done necessitates an explanation that can not be other than labyrinthine . |
| 30 | This is the best that can be done to depopulate a matrix below its diagonal ; if one could remove infradiagonal elements as well , there would be no problem in finding eigenvalues and vectors of a matrix . |