Example sentences of "done so [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both defendants maintained to police that the baby suffered fits and had done so during the weekend he died . |
| 2 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 3 | Employees ' representatives counter that many that accepted early retirement offers would never have done so without the promise that medical expenses would be covered for life . |
| 4 | Whether they would have done so without the force , is simply history . |
| 5 | Yet she could not have done so without the help of a young French countess , Sybille de la Borde . |
| 6 | She could hardly have done so without the Archdeacon 's leave . |
| 7 | The New Zealand experience suggests that those who proceed with ‘ open ’ adoption are not altogether the same as those who would have done so under the more traditional approach . |
| 8 | You find enthralling tales of small businesses without a jot of formal marketing training who have , unknowingly , applied effective marketing techniques for years — but have done so under the banner of plain , common sense . |
| 9 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 10 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 11 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 12 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 13 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 14 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 15 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 16 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 17 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 19 | I have done so with the earnest endeavour to be able to speak to that brief , but I have to start by declaring failure and announcing that the results have been negative . |
| 20 | In order to succeed against paper owners who seek possession , squatters must prove that , for at least twelve years , they have actually possessed the land , and have done so with the intention to possess it ( animus possidendi ) and adversely . |
| 21 | AMONG the many new buildings in Glasgow which have sought to reconcile the traditions of the city with the need for modernity , none have done so with the wit and directness of the Eagle Building in Bothwell Street . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) For as long as they were presenting the case , the prosecution had done so on the footing that it was section 18 or nothing . |
| 23 | they have done so on the grounds that the company is entitled to the benefit of those exemptions as a small ( or medium ) company . |
| 24 | Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions . |
| 25 | It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education . |
| 26 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 27 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 28 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 29 | The government has long made it clear that sterling would enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism during stage one of economic and monetary union which began in July ; it has now done so at the earliest appropriate time . |
| 30 | Although it was the king , not the chief lord of the fee , who issued the licences , he seems to have done so from the start — and certainly after 1292 — only with the assent of the chief lords . |