Example sentences of "do [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most enterprise-based unions remain fairly self-contained and although many do affiliate to the appropriate national , regional or industrial federations they accord them little authority for conducting collective bargaining or sanctioning agreements . |
| 2 | The grant payable depended upon the number of children who could read , write , and do arithmetic to the satisfaction of the individual inspector , and therefore it was not unnatural that every effort was made by the managers of the school , to see that the inspectors ’ tastes in such other matters as food and drink were duly considered when he visited them . |
| 3 | The simple division between ‘ dry ’ and ‘ wet ’ does not , however , do justice to the currents of opinion in the contemporary Conservative party . |
| 4 | The same forces do justice to the spikier Serenade for Strings op 1 . |
| 5 | Dummy corpses dangle aloft , to remind us that Tyburn Tree was no joke ; but Caird and his cast also do justice to the element of pure burlesque , to Gay 's elegance and panache , to the swing and snap of the dialogue . |
| 6 | In his desire to make sure that I do justice to the Masai cosmic vision , the professor overestimates my attachment to the logical . |
| 7 | Among positive rights , we should include the rights : to have all one 's experience and knowledge assessed in the admissions process ; to determine the subjects studied ; to have a legitimate measure of control over the pace and the methods of study ; to be able to follow a particular academic interest , or develop a point of view of one 's own ; to be examined in ways which do justice to the student 's achievements ; and to be credited with those parts of a course which have been passed successfully ( should the student wish or need to move to another institution , or to take a break in the programme of study ) . |
| 8 | And the blissed-out mid-Atlantic tones it conjures up hardly do justice to the Beatles ' own thick and sardonic Liverpudlian accents . |
| 9 | Within its own terms this book is successful , but one could suggest that those terms are restrictive and hardly do justice to the breadth and variety of Shakespeare 's style . |