Example sentences of "done in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main damage was done in the first twelve months , when GDP fell by 3 per cent , industrial production by 9 per cent , and unemployment doubled to 2.5 million . |
| 2 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 3 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 4 | Perhaps radio is now fitted inside the crash helmets , I never understood why this could not have been done in the first place , along the lines of the radios issued to policemen or the earphones that , thank God , are popular with those who can not live without constant noise . |
| 5 | Who wanted the job done in the first place ? ’ |
| 6 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 7 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 8 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
| 9 | UTILITY — A small program which will do a single , simple job ; often performing a function that Windows ought to have done in the first place . |
| 10 | Yes , but , the the main part of this as I understand the drawing , you 'll have to ask Mr when he comes , but the main part of , of the square , which would n't be the third which is done in the first phase according to the phase that they 're currently proposing . |
| 11 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that more could be done in the first instance to prevent offences ? |
| 13 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 14 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 15 | It 's just the same as what we 've done in the first one , and we 're |
| 16 | The business done in the Spanish electronics sector dropped a disconcerting 17% in 1992 according to figures produced by Aniel , the electronics sector employers organisation . |
| 17 | This could also have been done in the penultimate chord , but we have chosen to avoid it by using a bass ( E ) which is mildly dissonant with an upper note ( F ) . ) |
| 18 | Although such linkages have been a key feature of the development work done in the Central Institutions , linkages have also been set up between HNC/D courses in Further Education Colleges and both CIs and Universities . |
| 19 | This was n't the sort of international work done in the European branch of security services , which is known as Section A. But it was glamorous enough to keep Dirk Coetzee happy for a while . |
| 20 | Stating the US position on May 29 , Cheney said that " whatever is done in the European context should be done in a way that strengthens the alliance " . |
| 21 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 22 | Most work has been done in the visible and near-UV regions ( wavelengths 700–200 nm ; frequencies 14 000–50 000 cm -1 ) where photographic recording is easy , and glass or quartz optics are ideal . |
| 23 | He urged the unemployed of the north to ‘ get on your bike ’ and look for work , as his window-cleaner father had done in the thirties . |
| 24 | It would be better in the ordinary case , where the justices think there should be no contact , to say there is no order for contact , which , in fact , is what the family proceedings court have done in the present case . |
| 25 | HLA typing is now being done in the present series of patients . |
| 26 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
| 28 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 29 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 30 | By the early 1980s ‘ PLO nationalism ’ was declining in credibility as Arab nationalism had done in the 1970s . |