Example sentences of "do [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're smart , the place is well maintained , and I think anything we can do to support the general thing there , and certainly the Ottery youth there is , is , is money well spent . |
| 2 | In the first months of 1950 both the British service chiefs and many influential figures in Washington complained that too little was being done to combat the communist threat in the Cold War . |
| 3 | As a former chairman of the leisure committee , I am well aware of the work done to promote the super leisure facilities provided throughout Wear Valley by the former Labour council . |
| 4 | It induces nausea and thereby inaction , since nothing can be done to affect the essential condition : action requires illusion . |
| 5 | Could nothing be done to restore the traditional balance of advantage to the defender ? |
| 6 | What exactly did I do to deserve a so-called friend like you ? ’ |
| 7 | God knows what Tavic would find to say to dear , homely Annie Templeman , or what his favourite ex-girl friend , Mina Beresford , had done to deserve the lugubrious Bill Templeman as a neighbour . |
| 8 | Obviously there was not much that any Government concerned in governing the United Kingdom could do to meet the wilder demands of the " Left is Right Group " , but , since it was never clear whether these were immediate demands or merely long-term hopes , Cabinet office for Carolan and Under — Secretaryships for one or two of his more articulate followers contrived to keep the group within the Parliamentary fold . |
| 9 | Little seems to have been done to repair the various bridges and now , — " Ballinaby having presented to this Meeting an Estimate of a Bridge to be built upon the water of Saligo … |
| 10 | All that the plaintiff need do to obtain a restraining order is to show a prima facie , arguable case , and that the public interest in protecting the confidence is not , on the " balance of convenience " test , outweighed by some urgent public interest in publication . |
| 11 | What can Government do to encourage the private sector to fund more training ? |
| 12 | A typewritten statement in Arabic delivered to a Western news agency in west Beirut said that the ‘ soldiers of justice ’ — a name previously used by Abu Nidal 's organisation when it kidnapped the Belgian doctor , Jan Cools , in southern Lebanon last year — had ‘ executed the death sentence ’ against Dr Wybran , adding that this was done to encourage the Palestinian intifada uprising against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza strip . |
| 13 | Side leg exercises can be done to work the outer thigh area , and a wide variety of scissor-type exercises can be done for the hips and lower stomach areas , ( More advanced stomach exercises can be carried out using weights if desired . ) |
| 14 | As with Land Rovers , updating ( and possibly a personal number plate ) can be done to hide the true age of a Range Rover or to improve its appearance or replacement for accident or corrosion reasons with newer parts . |
| 15 | This matter is of the greatest concern to my constituents , many of whom are at their wits ' end as to what can be done to halt the murderous menace of the theft and racing of cars in residential city streets . |
| 16 | The reason behind the emphasis is an admission that not enough has been done to help the small , growing company and a belief that a key element in the failure of many growing enterprises to expand beyond a certain size is the lack of links with the right people to provide help in the major decisions faced at that stage . |
| 17 | She sighed , and wondered if all she had done to help the young couple could possibly have been worth it . |
| 18 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |
| 19 | It does not aim to tell readers what they can do to help the environmental cause , nor is it written in an alarmist way . |
| 20 | What can he do to help the humble supplicant ? |
| 21 | What sort of things do you do to help the homeless ? |
| 22 | But what can we do to help the bright child who works well during term but bombs in exams through nerves ? |
| 23 | And what sort of things did you actually do to help the national hunger marchers then ? |
| 24 | Given the preoccupation of most of the British Press with the sensational and the titillating such coverage will inevitably continue , but more can be done and should be done to avoid the negative image of the profession that emerges with each story . |
| 25 | Will he see what he can do to persuade the public sector to follow the private sector 's practice in this case ? |
| 26 | Although you will not be able to take your puppy out at once , there are many things which you can do to form a close bond between you and your new pet . |
| 27 | I imagined that this might have been done to obliterate a directional ‘ fix ’ to throw treasure hunters off the scent . |
| 28 | Little was done to resolve the age-old problem of land-distribution . |
| 29 | Nothing of any depth has been done to give the wider public , and especially young people , a cultural background or rather , an educational training , which transcends mere entertainment or spectacle . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , within the Aegean , the Third Millennium BC was a wonderful period , when a lot of new things happened and that is particularly true of the Cycladic islands , so anything we can do to understand the international spirit of the Early Bronze Age of the Aegean is helpful . |