Example sentences of "[been] do " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it 's been done because people wanted it to happen , not because it 's been imposed upon them . ’ |
| 32 | The new system for arranging Eurobond issues is derived from the way new issues have been done in the US for many years . |
| 33 | ‘ This has been done in a very formal and proper way . ’ |
| 34 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 35 | Modern drainage and farming techniques make cultivation possible , but with the agreement of local farmers this has not been done and the water level is artificially maintained to protect the wildlife that has developed . |
| 36 | Chris Davis , managing director of a Liverpool manufacturing company , said not enough had yet been done to restrict union power . |
| 37 | Much work has been done behind the scenes to pave the way for its implementation . |
| 38 | Again no reference will be made to party authorities in the guberniia capital , since this has already been done for Smolensk . |
| 39 | This has been done to demonstrate that the charitable assets of the Association are being utilised within an appropriate framework that is acceptable to the Charity Commission . |
| 40 | In the case of Sgt Soles , the Department said that Mrs Marsden 's inquiry had resulted in the discovery that his widow , who had remarried by was now very ill , was entitled to have her widow 's pension reinstated under new legislation and this had now been done . |
| 41 | At a Conservative party meeting on 28 August , Amery noted that Horne ‘ on the whole agrees with me that we have got into a considerable mess and that the great thing is to extricate our people as soon as possible , ’ while Hailsham in his speech ‘ supported entirely what had been done but trusted that it would not last longer than two months — whereat loud cheers ’ . |
| 42 | Despite the memorandum by Keynes referred to above , the foreign exchange aspect of overseas government expenditure was conspicuously absent from the debate in the Defence Committee from its beginnings in 1946 right through to August 1947 , by which time it may be argued that the damage had largely already been done . |
| 43 | Even after repair works on the generators had been done , only two of them operated satisfactorily forcing the factory to work on only two shifts instead of the usual three . |
| 44 | The main problem when using crimps is you ca n't actually see whether any damage has been done to the main line when the pressure is applied to the crimp . |
| 45 | In part Marx say this task as paralleling what had been done by Darwin for biological evolution . |
| 46 | At this point in the history of the evolution of mankind The Origin rejoins The German Ideology and Formen , although it continues to consider the themes of the family and the position of women in a way that had not been done before . |
| 47 | The evidence is too complex and too little work has been done . |
| 48 | The bridegroom wo n't go into transports of grief and you do n't put off your wedding because your best man 's been done in . ’ |
| 49 | It 's just a normal shop window — you know , with lights on and these statues and that , but it 's been done like it 's someone 's dining room . |
| 50 | However , apart from the pioneering Ipswich project and Glasgow 's Kent Road Cabinet Works scheme , elsewhere in Britain little has yet been done to promote , or to try to demonstrate , the advantages of re-using redundant factories as dwellings . |
| 51 | ‘ I certainly do , ’ Frau Nordern answered , as if the room had been done for her . |
| 52 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 53 | farmers encouraging foxes to live on their land encourage a whole range of other wildlife that enjoys the same habitat , as has been done at Highgrove . |
| 54 | Nothing of its kind had ever been done before , and it could have blown up in his face . |
| 55 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
| 56 | Coloured , bleached , stonewashed , there 's little that has n't been done to denim . |
| 57 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musical flaws . |
| 58 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musi cal flaws . |
| 59 | They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing . |
| 60 | ‘ It was a combination of shock , pain and exhaustion and the overall effect of what had been done to her . ’ |