Example sentences of "it has done [adj] " 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 It has done great good to his career .
4 Why , Edward and I have been planning it for days — it has done much to keep up his spirits ! ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 and the guy that 's faked it has done all this
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Much high praise has already come Mohicans ' way and it has done astounding US box-office business , but despite this it is on occasion a flawed film with a sometimes patchy pace and a structure that wobbles in the final 30 minutes .
12 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 .
13 By the time it has done this , the crab is safe .
14 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 .
15 Since the 1979 Banking Act it has done this by licensing institutions to take deposits and requiring regular statistical returns from such institutions .
16 It has done forty thousand miles , ’ he was saying .
17 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 .
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