Example sentences of "do [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Support refers to anything which is said or done to help the offender solve or mitigate their personal or social problems : surveillance to anything which is said or done to induce the offender to conform to socially acceptable standards of behaviour . |
| 2 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 3 | In actual fact there is just one overt trigger for this inference : the particle well in English serves to warn the recipient that some inferencing must be done to preserve the assumption of relevance . |
| 4 | The guide outlines what harassment is and what can be done to combat the problem both formally and informally . |
| 5 | ‘ This is apparently against prison regulations , but little seems to have been done to enforce the rule . ’ |
| 6 | Then when it appeared the problem had been solved , Morgan alleges he hid outside Docherty 's and overheard him ringing the journalist again to apologise for his outburst claiming it was only done to fool the player . |
| 7 | However , a great deal of work remains to be done to restore the prison 's vitality . |
| 8 | Please could you tell me what I should do to treat the problem ? |
| 9 | Now what more can he do to pass the evening pleasantly , and entertain his guests ? |
| 10 | In short , a lot was done to increase the level of charitable donations from individuals in the 1980s . |
| 11 | Work still needs to be done to establish the severity , intensity , and frequency of physical abuse to enable workers to carry out preventive work and target resources appropriately |
| 12 | Work still needs to be done to establish the severity , intensity , and frequency of physical abuse to enable workers to carry out preventive work and target resources appropriately . |
| 13 | But little could be done to redress the situation since the houses were in just as bad a position as the growers . |
| 14 | So what can be done to redress the balance ? |
| 15 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |
| 16 | It is also considering what it can do to meet the demand for more information by such measures as explanatory videos , evening classes or workplace clinics . |
| 17 | Johnny Rogan himself is at a loss to explain what he has done to provoke the wrath of the former Smith , while Morrissey says that the book contains certain inaccuracies about his Mancunian past . |
| 18 | What would then be done to contain the rage of the millions of people waiting to greet the Imam in the streets of Teheran ? |
| 19 | While everyone agrees that far more could , and should , have been done to contain the AIDS epidemic , the key issue now is that positive steps can still be taken . |
| 20 | Although the developments outlined above might go some way towards encouraging parents and politicians to regard teachers as ‘ professional ’ much more will need to be done to repair the damage caused by the years of industrial dispute . |
| 21 | What would you do to find the distance ? |
| 22 | Hill climbing is so called because it is like what one would do to find the top of a hill in a Scottish mist : Keep going up . |
| 23 | I wondered whether the fact that the buildings had collapsed , were no longer the ordered haven of childhood , helped him to understand that whatever he might do to reinstate the fabric of the place , he would not succeed in re-creating the past . |
| 24 | What can RE do to encourage the imagination necessary for understanding religion ? |
| 25 | Something needs to be done to encourage the employment of such booksellers . |
| 26 | The present study was done to evaluate the correlation between the two tests in humans . |
| 27 | Similar studies need to be done to evaluate the role of the cholinergic nerves in the gastric response to intragastric ethanol . |
| 28 | What would you do to reverse the direction of the ammeter needles first movement , B ? |
| 29 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 30 | Most of this increase stems directly from government policies and , although some extra resources have been allocated for 1990/91 and 1991/92 , little has been done to remedy the situation . |