Example sentences of "[was/were] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All things were done differently in London . |
| 2 | All Dave 's flavours were done apart from the odd few extras , |
| 3 | Enzyme determinations were done immediately after the end of the experiments . |
| 4 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 5 | Court rules and restraints were done away with . |
| 6 | In what is now largely a secular society , where many who are members of churches no longer adhere to the strict rules of their mentors , it is about time that anachronistic denominational schools were done away with . |
| 7 | They were er a grade five , that was the lowest inspector , grade four But eventually the grade er five and four were done away with . |
| 8 | Serial measurements of COHb ( IL 482 CO-Oximeter , Instrumentation Laboratory , USA ) were done hourly in all 6 patients until the index became normal , and arterial blood pressure , heart rate , and SpO were monitored ( peripheral oxygen saturation by M1020 module , Hewlett Packard , USA ) . |
| 9 | things were done well that 's a matter of . |
| 10 | Though some of the writing and most if not all the compilation were done not so long after the notorious events surrounding the capture of Jerusalem in 587 or 586 , only in the little story of the bowl of lentil soup is Esau portrayed in a poor light . |
| 11 | They were done once at the other house were n't they ? |
| 12 | Once the early morning jobs were done there was a relaxing of discipline , and when the family returned from church everyone on the staff , from Mr Priddy down to the newest domestic , was invited to the second-best parlour to receive a small present . |
| 13 | Cell lysis and western blotting were done as described ; each track contains lysate equivalent to 20,000 cells . |
| 14 | In situ hybridizations were done as described in ref. 1 . |
| 15 | SDS gel electrophoresis and western blotting were done as described . |
| 16 | RNA and DNA electrophoresis , blotting and hybridization were done as described previously ( 18 ) . |
| 17 | On the question of the figures , we have some doubts of the assessments made which were done prior of course to the actual opening of the southern bypass and therefore what would happen when it did happen . |
| 18 | With regard to a carbon tax he said at Energy Questions on Monday that if that ’ were done unilaterally ahead of the rest of the world , it could put British industry at a severe disadvantage . ’ |
| 19 | The recent calculations were done only for the collision of an electron and a positron , a collision common in particle accelerators . |
| 20 | Peptide stimulations and CTL assays were done essentially as described in the legend to Fig. 2 . |
| 21 | For soldiers , if it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . |
| 22 | Shakespeare gave the play five castles : Forres ; Inverness in which the assassination of Duncan ‘ were done quickly ’ with the dagger Macbeth saw before him ; Macduff 's castle in fife ; the King 's palace in England , and Dunsinane where — ‘ Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper : Out , out damned spot ! out , I say ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If it were done when 't is done , then 't were well it were done quickly . ’ |
| 24 | All determinations were done twice with variations between the tests of less than 10% . |
| 25 | British shipbuilding was never to recover the world pre-eminence it had during this period , although the yards were to do well until the late 1960s . |
| 26 | The master and matron were to do likewise in respect of the other officers . |
| 27 | His instructions to Blamey were to do even better for his eldest daughter . |
| 28 | All four of Charles 's children who married were to do so by licence ; that suited two of them — Elizabeth in Frome and then Benjamin in London — who were in a bit of a hurry , but in Sarah 's case there was maybe a hint of Nonconformist protest against having banns read out in a church which she did not attend . |
| 29 | I certainly do not charge the Minister with dishonesty ; if I were to do so I should be reprimanded . |
| 30 | If they were determined to hang on to their culture then they were to do so quietly , without bothering others . |