Example sentences of "[prep] [be] done in " in BNC.

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1 An enormous amount of work has been done and perhaps still more remains to be done in arranging works of art in exact sequence of time .
2 Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern .
3 There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more .
4 But the quality and quantity of the skiing to be done in these places is almost a secondary consideration .
5 Internally , a hardwood floor surface helped to maintain an equable temperature , permitted work to be done in bare feet and simplified the recovery of waste cotton .
6 While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension .
7 It takes ages because the garment has to be done in sections — it 's much easier if the shapes are all the same size . ’
8 He is the head of a great Government office — what may be called the secretarial office ; he is ‘ the King 's Secretary of State for all departments ’ ; whatever writing has to be done in the King 's name is done by the Chancellor or through him and his officers .
9 But to have to allow it to be done in a strange place was impossible .
10 It had to be done in the night , they explained , when there was nobody about and we could take some home with us providing we kept our mouths shut .
11 Whilst women 's role as mothers was of paramount importance to society — particularly after the exile when maternity , for various pragmatic reasons , became the means of transmitting and establishing in biological terms , as it were , religious and ethnic identity — it would seem logical , given our culture — nature opposition and the fact that culture seeks to control and impose upon whatever has been construed as natural , that something had to be done in cultural terms about the natural function of childbirth .
12 The format of the church funeral service allows this to be done in a recognized , public , orderly and time-limited way .
13 In England and Wales this needs to be done in the area where the person died , not where they lived , if these two places are different .
14 Under each month could be found directions for work to be done in the kitchen garden with notes on its produce , the pleasure or flower garden with plants then in flower , and the greenhouse and stove with their plants in bloom .
15 Thus Brian Way opened the door to all kinds of activities ( games , relaxation exercises , ‘ warm-ups ’ and sensitivity exercises , etc. ) to be done in the name of drama .
16 It simply tells the truth ; the truth about what Liberal Democrats believe has to be done in order for Britain to succeed .
17 Adjudicative authorities , one might say , are precisely those in which the role of the authority is to judge what are the reasons which apply to its subjects and decide accordingly , i.e. their decisions are merely meant to declare what ought to be done in any case .
18 First , they may be designed not finally to determine what is to be done in certain circumstances but merely to determine what ought to be done on the basis of certain considerations .
19 There is much work to be done in preparation , says Buckle .
20 Much had yet to be done in the study of nucleic acid chemistry .
21 Previously when someone 's age had to be formally determined it had to be done in the presence of a sheriff of the county and a ‘ jury ’ composed of local people who knew the person concerned .
22 There is a serious job to be done in raising the sensitivity of people to their own ageism .
23 While there is still a great deal to be done in both these fields , there are few people who are unaware of the terms and what they mean .
24 And if it had to be done in the public sector then could it be done by a separate hived-off body or by a department ?
25 Obviously further work needs to be done in this area , and long-term studies now in progress using antiplatelet agents such as aspirin and dipyridamole need to be evaluated for possible protective effects on the development of microvascular and macrovascular disease in diabetic subjects .
26 The organisation of the planning process tends to be done in corporate head office by a central corporate planning department .
27 ‘ lead from the front ’ by deciding what needs to be done in difficult situations , where a consensus can not be reached or where time is tight .
28 It is hoped that discussion of the problems faced by attempted suicide patients and the factors which should be kept in mind during their assessment will have left the reader in no doubt as to the crucial nature of the assessment procedure for such patients and the need for it to be done in a careful way by staff who have been appropriately trained .
29 It all had to be done in the dark and was rather frightening .
30 Professor Zuckerman said that field tests , using the new vaccine , are now to be done in West Africa , Burma and China .
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