Example sentences of "work [was/were] do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of work was done to the bridge in the years 1648–50 and an inscription on it states that it was ‘ built ’ in 1650 . |
| 2 | Unfortunately some of this work was done without a proper appreciation of the fact that the presence of tree growth , and the shade it gave , prevented or at least discouraged the growth of water weeds , the existence of which could form an even greater obstruction than much of the tree growth . |
| 3 | Jackson and Robinson in a research project Pupils and Staff in Residence ( 7 ) published in 1979 ( although the work was done between 1971 and 1974 ) found a gap between pupil-expectation of hostels and subsequent reality ; students complained of lack of family atmosphere and opportunity for involvement in decision-taking . |
| 4 | So much tree clearance work was done during the first ten years of the existence of Catchment Boards that it is now difficult to get a complete picture of the derelict state of the rivers before the passing of the Land Drainage Act in 1930 . |
| 5 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
| 6 | ‘ Most of my work was done on a bike . |
| 7 | ‘ Most of my work was done on a bike . |
| 8 | That work was done on the nickels of a string of major investors led by IBM Corp , which is thought to have lost between $100m and $200m on the failed venture — but Chen 's announcement that his new company , Supercomputers International Inc , will draw on work done by the failed one raises the question of who owns that work . |
| 9 | This work was done on hand-made double elephant Indian rag paper . |
| 10 | Much of the earlier work was done on Mediterranean terraces and these , as well as many of the terraces in other areas , can not be directly related to Pleistocene events . |
| 11 | During the nineteen seventies a lot of research work was done on distributed database technology by such people as I B M , Digital , and other database pioneers such as . |
| 12 | The work was done with two part-time researchers at the University of East Anglia working under Church and University supervision . |
| 13 | Concentrated work was done for Guy 's pelvis and foot , to improve his standing balance . |
| 14 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 15 | All his surviving work was done for religious houses in the south-west . |
| 16 | In 1877 , the manufacture and repair of locomotives at Wolverton was given up and the whole of this work was done at Crewe , so that Wolverton became an exclusively carriage building centre . |
| 17 | A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park , creating lakes and the kitchen gardens . |
| 18 | Again , I am amazed that I accomplished the job so quickly seeing that most of the work was done at weekends . |
| 19 | His major work was done in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s , he suffered Stalinist repression , was partly rehabilitated , and died in 1975 , at a time when very few people in the West had heard of him . |
| 20 | Only when the inevitable standing ovation was over , and their work was done in the conference hall , could they relax . |
| 21 | THIRTY FIVE people died and others were maimed for life in the Clapham rail disaster in December last year because work was done in a slovenly , haphazard way and was then left unchecked . |
| 22 | But some of his finest work was done in wartime , in the Western Desert and later in Saudi Arabia . |
| 23 | All this work was done in close cooperation with Hofmann , and there can be little doubt that this was beneficial to both parties . |
| 24 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 25 | Not all the work was done in religious houses . |
| 26 | What work was done in the United Kingdom on raiding and amphibious operations had been mainly carried out by the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( ISTDC ) and the Royal Marines ' Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation ( MNBDO ) , the Royal Navy being responsible for amphibious operations . |
| 27 | The probability is that a large part , even most , of the work was done in the madhouse , and that Smart finished it after his release . |
| 28 | Apart from the comparative investigation of women 's political behaviour carried out under the direction of Maurice Duverger ( 1955 ) very little systematic work was done in this area . |
| 29 | The work was done in Hitachi 's Central Laboratory . |
| 30 | All of his important work was done in Vienna , in the first four decades of the twentieth century . |