Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] done for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them . |
| 2 | You know , some patients I could think of seem to have the idea that everything should be done for them in hospital |
| 3 | Something similar might be done for energy , if higher taxes remain off-limits . |
| 4 | And then , perhaps far back in the dim Permian Age , sufficient harm might be done for the further development of life forms to cease . |
| 5 | I know if I get into trouble again I 'll be done for the arson charge and breach of probation , and that means a few years in jail and I could n't handle it . |
| 6 | A shepherd can never be sure at what hour he 'll be done for the day , but the priest 's man leaves Upton as soon as Vespers is over , and so he did this time . |
| 7 | In the liberated world of radical chic , we may be intended to think , favours could be done for the right person . |
| 8 | He started to see that in his opinion more could be done for humanity by Churches than by political parties , even the best of political parties such as he took the Liberal Party to be ; or at least that the Churches engaged at a more profound level with the predicament of humanity . |
| 9 | They consulted a doctor who told them that there was very little that could be done for a rheumatic attack . |
| 10 | The inhabitants were on the upper floors calling for help but , before anything could be done for them , the houses disintegrated and the people were all lost in the flood . |
| 11 | If the Pharisees and Scribes thought themselves to be so perfect that they were not aware of their own sin then little could be done for them . |
| 12 | Fire sub-officer Paul , 33 , knew nothing could be done for the car couple , but he realised the lorryman had not got out . |
| 13 | But it might not be his fault , and it would be wonderful if something could be done for that old General . |
| 14 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 15 | Minor revenue posts , and as in this case , even the location of rented office space , were one of the more effective methods of impressing the members of a town council with what could be done for them , or to them . |
| 16 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 17 | If this could be done for one product , it could be done for others with their own market strategies and situations . |
| 18 | If this could be done for one product , it could be done for others with their own market strategies and situations . |
| 19 | How this could be done for , say , general medicine , other than by letting a contract to provide all services required by a defined population , is difficult to envisage . |
| 20 | Survivors have always been told the terms of the peace treaty with Japan meant nothing more could be done for them . |
| 21 | She knew that with enough money , alot could be done for Katya in England . |
| 22 | These councils were set up in 1953 following the report of the Gowers Committee of 1950 into what could be done for the preservation of houses of historic interest . |
| 23 | Whatever we do for Lent could be done for an intention or our families . |
| 24 | It 's easy to look at these young hooligans on the street , as they are perceived by so many , without understanding why they are like it , and I think it would help everyone to understand , and maybe we could have some action to work towards supplying the need for these youngsters , because I belief if something could be done for them when they 're sixteen and just starting out on this erm sort of sub-culture life that they get into so quickly , if people could give them maximum help at this stage then they could grow into being responsible erm satisfied adults . |
| 25 | ‘ Then we 'd be done for . |
| 26 | All this may be done for the best of reasons but it only ensures that children bottle up their feelings as well as their tears , which , as we have seen in previous chapters , can have far-reaching effects . |
| 27 | This may be done for a variety of reasons including someone 's anxiety that the original figures were just too unlikely to be reliable . |
| 28 | This may be done for rhetorical reasons and is a common ploy in politics . |
| 29 | Most merciful father who has told us to love you with all our strength and glorify you in our bodies , we commend to you for your continual blessings the hospitals of our land and those who serve in them prosper all that is being done in the healing of the sick , the conquest of disease and the training of doctors and nurses that your will may be done for the relief of suffering and the making of lives whole through Jesus Christ our Lord amen |
| 30 | Swift was soon appointed dean of St Patrick 's in Dublin , though he assured Diaper : ‘ I will move Heaven and Earth that something may be done for you . ’ |