Example sentences of "the [det] [modal v] be done [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two problems with the type of stack found in the KDF9 computer : ( a ) it is of fixed size , so that the programmer or compiler has to take care to keep within its bounds ; and ( b ) in a multiprogramming environment the stack has to be emptied and refilled at each process switch ; the latter could be done on the KDF9 only one element at a time ( although suitable stack dump and restore instructions could be envisaged ) , and the problem was solved on that computer by providing multiple nesting stores . |
| 2 | The classic instance concerns a Swedish hoard of the eighteenth century from Lohe , the examination of which led to the establishment of the principle ( fig. 28 ) , but much the same can be done for other well-documented periods such as seventeenth-century England . |
| 3 | The same can be done in miniature by looking at a sheltered housing group or an institutional home . |
| 4 | For example , in the film our hero kills a Gremlin in a food blender ; the same can be done in the game , with an animated ‘ blending sequence ’ to satisfy all your daily gore-lust needs . |
| 5 | 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 . |