Example sentences of "[verb] done [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dominance of right-wing ideas has done little to avert the decline ; to invoke Marxism against Thatcherism is to employ an obsolete weapon . |
| 2 | Soviet aid has helped in maintaining the population 's morale and the regime 's credibility and unity , while US aid to the to the mujahedin has done little to increase their unity , morale or fighting ability . |
| 3 | The regime has done little to reassure people . |
| 4 | At the same time the government did not push its reforms as far as some supporters wished ; it did not , for example , place the onus on union members to contract in rather than out of paying the political levy and has done little to break down national wage bargaining which pays little attention to different local labour market conditions . |
| 5 | ‘ Sport For All ’ has done little to overcome the inequalities present at the start of the campaign ’ , conclude the report 's authors . |
| 6 | Most tropical forest aid has gone to industrial forestry and has done little to aid the poor or protect the environment . |
| 7 | Over the years Korea 's fast economic growth , unlike Taiwan 's , for example , has done little to boost inflation . |
| 8 | The ANC 's elliptical denial that it was ‘ organisationally implicated ’ has done little to calm white people 's doubts about its commitment to the rule of law . |
| 9 | The government has done little to stop them . |
| 10 | It has done little to defend persons of rank and breeding against the envy and malice of the base-born , to support the better against the worse , the cultivated and civilised against the barbarous and ignorant . |
| 11 | In the Camelford case , the muddled official response has done little to engender confidence in the abilities of the DoE , DHSS or their local networks to deal effectively with any similar incident in future . |
| 12 | If capitalist industrialisation has done little to improve the position of women , is there any evidence to suggest that they have fared better with alternative paths of development ? |
| 13 | This exercise in planning research from outside has done little good to patients with cancer , and the politicians have given place to others . |
| 14 | It might have moderated things at the margins , but it has done little to address or solve issues of economic decline , deprivation or inadequate housing in the cities . |
| 15 | The government has done little to counter this . |
| 16 | The passing of the years has done little to improve the situation . |
| 17 | The significant point is that the LDDC has intervened to help out developers of retail , housing and office projects , but has done little for existing local firms and businesses . |
| 18 | since then , our attention has been diverted by a barrage of wines from the New World , which a run of less than characterful Riojas has done little to recapture . |
| 19 | ‘ Last night 's storm has done little to clear the atmosphere , ’ Mr Carson said . |
| 20 | The move has done little to dampen speculation that the middle tier will see more mergers in the immediate future . |
| 21 | The British tendency to choose to limit the size of families over the past 20 years , and the need to move around the country in search of better job prospects , has done little to increase the sense of community and neighbourliness which once absorbed so much of the responsibility for mutual support and so-called ‘ informal ’ care in the post-war years . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , no mention of the role of the key worker is made in the studies , and the conclusion must be drawn that this arrangement is either not very common or , if it is used , has done little to resolve the problems for which it was intended , many of which are listed above . |
| 23 | The disbanding of ACE , of course too , has done little to boost MIPS ' credibility , and there exists no major vendor that 's committed to MIPS as a desktop processor . |
| 24 | Even the presence of a substantial Korean minority has done little to weaken a sense of identity whose strength is indicated by the virtual denial of Japanese nationality to those who are not racially Japanese . |
| 25 | In the petrochemicals industry , the advent of non-traditional exporters — Saudi Arabia , Brazil , Canada — has done little to disturb existing structures . |
| 26 | The Salvadorean government has done little to aid the displaced , choosing instead to see them as potential subversives who must be carefully watched . |
| 27 | The stick-and-carrot approach to ‘ race relations ’ has done little to shift the moral economy of the street gang , or that of the rank-and-file police . |
| 28 | The twentieth century has done little to reduce its importance . |
| 29 | The insidious growth of the wages gap between agriculture and industry , which the AWB has done little to narrow , leads to the consideration once more of alternative means of raising wages on the land . |
| 30 | Their provision has , in any case , varied considerably between different parts of the country , and , because of the precise way in which it has been implemented , the Act has done little to increase the opportunities for rural recreation among the more deprived sections of the urban population . |