Example sentences of "done [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aside from his kicking , Ellwood , the player who has done most to transform the Irish season , has shown that he can also break . |
| 2 | It saw little more than arguments over who had done most to break the 1975 Final Act ; but the fact that it continued to meet held out the hope of more fruitful conversations in future . |
| 3 | It is a cruel irony that the man who has done most to reform the party and its policies , taking it to within a whisker of power , should be blamed for its failure to make the final leap to power . |
| 4 | Morris claimed to have done so to demonstrate the weaknesses in the network 's security system . |
| 5 | The bourgeoisie remained unsuffering , and Marx might have done better to have the carbuncles professionally seen to . |
| 6 | He gave as the ground for his refusal Matadial 's acceptance that her statement to the police was incorrect , but Mr. Pantry did not oppose the application and their Lordships consider that the judge would have done better to read the statement before giving his ruling . |
| 7 | All Witney 's hard work was rewarded six minutes from time ; Mark Walton done brilliantly to keep the ball in play the slipped the ball back to Paul Lewis who crossed first time , and there was Steve Jenkins to head home and snatch a well-deserved point . |
| 8 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 9 | No philosopher has done more to disown the idea that his writings embody some kind of masterly or authoritative wisdom . |
| 10 | It also published its statement on nutrition which , after reappearing in various forms , has probably done more to confuse the public than any other single pronouncement in the whole heart-disease field . |
| 11 | Among more radical monetarists and free marketeers there remains disappointment that the government had not done more to shift the middle ground . |
| 12 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 13 | Later , in a chapter entitled ‘ The Application of Paint ’ it says that recent books on decoration have ‘ done more to debase the traditional approach to decoration than to further an appreciation of its subtleties ’ . |
| 14 | There was a reaction against ( Conservative ) government unpreparedness for war in the 1930s and against those who had not done more to solve the nation 's problems during the Depression . |
| 15 | No one has done more to advance the frontiers of medicine than the Scots , yet the Opposition oppose any sort of change . |
| 16 | Yet I do not doubt that Aristotle and St Paul have done more to frame the Prime Minister 's mind and therefore the destiny of her Government than any thinkers who have been dead for less than 1,900 years . |
| 17 | But if you look at the next one you see the arches er all the the other arches are have been raised about er a metre , and that was done deliberately to get the extra height on the outside wall so that they could put erm a er er higher roof in for the the knave and for the the aisle so that they could ge make it a bigger space . |
| 18 | The depletion of stocks of minerals and fossil fuel is done mainly to satisfy the First World 's boundless greed for gadgetry , and to encourage the Third World to follow its degrading example . |
| 19 | Picking up droppings must be done regularly to keep the grazing sweet . |
| 20 | Although he claims nothing can be done immediately to prevent the cancellation of non-urgent admissions , he 's convinced the hospital will be one of the beneficiaries of the proposed N H S reforms . |
| 21 | His parents might have done well to remember the ancient adage , ‘ Those whom the gods love die young ’ . |
| 22 | This was there the captain would have done well to change the plan . |
| 23 | He says he 's done well to survive the monastic life for so long ! |
| 24 | A small print shop , working on other jobs at the same time , would have done well to complete the Fairy Queen edition in under a month : and during printing , work in the theatre carried on apace . |
| 25 | Lord Geraint , the former MP who has had a lifetime 's experience as a sheep farmer and dealer , warned however that there were many things to be done again to safeguard the interests of those about to start farming . |