Example sentences of "doing something [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 2 | Faced with the demise of their traditional courses , and with a government anxious both to increase the skills of the new unemployed young , and to be seen as doing something for the unemployed , colleges responded by mounting a programme of full-time non-vocational , or pre-vocational , courses . |
| 3 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 5 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 6 | We may want to make the point that if we are to be committed to doing something about the global warming of the ozone layer then we will need to say when we will do it by . |
| 7 | But for Cara and Liam and Odette , it meant sleeping downstairs all together by the fire with the dog and even then not really keeping warm ; chipping ice from the water barrels every morning with blistered fingers ; doing something about the worn soles of her boots . |
| 8 | But if you 're prepared to learn how to do the wiring and to do the ‘ building ’ work ( and redecorating ) involved , it 's not difficult to improve the lighting arrangements in your home by fitting new permanent lights , and by doing something about the switching set-up . |
| 9 | With this in mind er , this morning I 've written to George , the trade union secretary of the Civil Engineering Conciliation Board , the negotiating machine and suggested to him that he contacts the employers to seek a further meeting to see if we can restart the talks based on doing something about the longstanding commitment by both sides of the industry to have a positive and sensible pay structure for the future this may be one way forward , one way out of the deadlock . |
| 10 | Bingham wants to hand over to his successor a highly competent squad capable of doing something in the European Championships and the basis of it is certainly there . |