Example sentences of "be do to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By far the best service that can now be done to these pubs , both for ourselves and future generations , is to leave well alone . |
| 2 | Adaptations can usually be done to a property to suit it to your needs . |
| 3 | Amongst its conclusions , the report welcomes the emphasis being placed by the DSS and Social Security Benefits Agency ( SSAB ) on ‘ customer care ’ , and the recognition that much remains to be done to be sure that an adequate service is given . |
| 4 | Everybody was here for the same thing to be done to them . |
| 5 | Locally it needs to be done to as near a professional standard as possible . |
| 6 | Also , can you give me any information on what , if anything , can be done to the standard gearbox other than fitting overdrive to improve its performance . |
| 7 | More directly relevant to our case is the fact that , through the acceptance of rules setting up authorities , people can entrust judgment as to what is to be done to another person or institution which will then be bound , in accordance with the dependence thesis , to exercise its best judgment primarily on the basis of the dependent reasons appropriate to the case . |
| 8 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 9 | There was , too , at first anyway , wild talk of the honours to be done to Donald . |
| 10 | Many parents feel , too , that if they do n't intervene , hurt and/or an injustice will be done to the younger and/or weaker child . |
| 11 | Of course refineries can be modified or adjusted to produce the necessary product range given time , but the idea that this can be done to every refinery simultaneously and instantaneously is ludicrous . |
| 12 | Much of what is typed in is discarded , because the computer is really looking for key words which refer to files kept in its disc store and what should be done to them . |
| 13 | ‘ Then you will see that justice will be done to you , ’ he wrote . |
| 14 | It was natural and convenient for such writing as had to be done to be performed by the permanent literate officials of the court , the chaplains ; and so the tradition arose that royal chaplains could write royal charters . |
| 15 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 16 | However , these blades do increase the damage which can be done to the model when you get it wrong . |
| 17 | The annual models provide good publicity at the Motor Show , but surely there is a limit to what can be done to a car that has to be instantly recognisable by its shape ? |
| 18 | These exercises can be done to a strong rhythm , so choose a record that you will enjoy working out to . |
| 19 | My friend and I , realizing that extreme damage was about to be done to someone or something , ran to the nearest telephone box and phoned the police for help . |
| 20 | But Mr Clinton has done what needed to be done to be elected . |
| 21 | So everything from a 25lb turkey to a full complement of 50 fairy cakes will be done to a turn . |
| 22 | The only way to solve it is for something to be done to those four officers , something done to the Korean lady who shot the girl , something done to the Compton policeman who killed those two Samoan brothers … |
| 23 | The danger in being too rigid is that justice will not be done to the flexibility and complexity of human performance . |
| 24 | As Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ Honour must ever be done to the Tsar and Russian nation for the noble ardour and loyalty with which they hurled themselves into the war . ’ |
| 25 | On the one hand , business leaders agreed that something had to be done to the health-care system because the cost of covering their workers was eroding their profits . |
| 26 | HOG will define an object 's attributes — what parameters can be set and what information can be retrieved ; the ‘ methods ’ associated with that object — what can be done to it and what it can do ; and its notification — what the object emits ( such as warning to tell the system that a file is nearly full , for example ) and what it can be read to . |
| 27 | This is a difficult decision for the Ministero di Beni Culturali in Rome , and its new head Alberto Ronchey , as it is unable to provide all the funds for the extensive restoration work that needs to be done to the city fabric of Urbino to prevent any further deterioration . |
| 28 | of what needs to be done to en ensure that while pursuing the cultural objectives . |
| 29 | By this they mean that people both avoid intruding upon each other 's territory ( physical territory , a particular field of knowledge , a friendship ) and also seek to enlarge the territory of others — in Lakoff 's terms , make the other person feel good — presumably on the assumption that the same will be done to them . |
| 30 | Jazz here is ‘ about fidelity , about the sole real art there is , about what one must be true to , come hell or high water ; what must be done to the point of collapse ( Škvorecký 1980 : 8 , 20 ) ; and in Škvoreck ý's; own Czechoslovakia , the persecution in the mid-1980s of the ‘ Jazz Section ’ — which has supported rock and punk as well as jazz — confirms the subversive potency and ‘ alternative ’ status , still , of this music . |