Example sentences of "it [verb] done [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the unit in Pembrokeshire , it has done that because it believes that it can satisfy the Secretary of State on four points : first , that such a move would show benefits for patients ; secondly , that it would improve management capability ; thirdly , that clinicians would be involved in management ; and , fourthly , that the trust has a future of financial soundness . |
| 2 | The state lacks integrity because it must endorse principles to justify part of what it has done that it must reject to justify the rest . |
| 3 | Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’ |
| 4 | It has done more , for example , for the understanding of music by ordinary people of this country than any other organisation , including the Arts Council ’ — this was a generous admission from the then chairman of the Arts Council — ‘ and it has done much for education and a great deal for general culture . |
| 5 | Throughout its short history , the world of movies has started movements , set trends , created myths , subverted truths , woven imagery and given birth to icons — and none of it has done much good for women . |
| 6 | and the guy that 's faked it has done all this |
| 7 | It has done little to defend persons of rank and breeding against the envy and malice of the base-born , to support the better against the worse , the cultivated and civilised against the barbarous and ignorant . |
| 8 | It might have moderated things at the margins , but it has done little to address or solve issues of economic decline , deprivation or inadequate housing in the cities . |
| 9 | It has done little either to develop in Oxfordshire teachers an awareness of the knowledge and skills necessary in order to conduct a searching and objective evaluation of their school and the attitudes necessary to follow evaluation with action and change . |
| 10 | The difficulty with all this is cost as , despite the Lands Tribunal decision , there is nothing to prevent the Capital Taxes Office from raising a new demand based on fresh grounds , as it has done many times during the past 11 years . |
| 11 | By the time it has done this , the crab is safe . |
| 12 | When it has done this , it replaces the worst few strings with new strings , formed by randomly blending a random selection of the best strings . |
| 13 | Since the 1979 Banking Act it has done this by licensing institutions to take deposits and requiring regular statistical returns from such institutions . |
| 14 | Apparently it is a big cut , but not so deep that it has done any irrevocable damage , at least that 's the impression I got . |
| 15 | But it had done that before . |
| 16 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 17 | If it had done that , we might have had a sensible dialogue with British Rail , but it did not . |
| 18 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 19 | Complicated when it has to be written down to or detailed where there 's a lot of information to be taken in and it 's a lot easier if it 's done that way because people can refer back to it all the time . |
| 20 | It 's done that on the other one as well . |