Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb mod] [be] done " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always say it will be done in a fortnight ; this gives me more leeway if things go wrong and if I get the garment finished before the two weeks are up the person is usually delighted . |
| 2 | Generally this means explaining what must be done : ‘ You can have the video back on when you have picked up your toys ’ . |
| 3 | In January it was decided to go on talking but let a ’ monitoring group ’ suggest what should be done with the results . |
| 4 | A man like Muhammad Ali not only symbolizes what can be done with talent and ability but shows that the ‘ man ’ and his system can be beat ( Glasgow , 1980 , p.78 ) . |
| 5 | We need to investigate whether such moral perceptions are accurate , if only to know what should be done about them . |
| 6 | More positive thinking survived in one or two parts of the monolithic building in Queen Anne 's Gate , but the overall impression gained by outside observers was of a dispirited department in which no-one really seemed to know what could be done about crime in general and the prisons in particular . |
| 7 | In 1834 Little went to study with Johannes Müller at the University of Berlin in order to discover what could be done to correct his deformity , which English surgeons refused to treat , leaving it to the bone-setters . |
| 8 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 9 | Since settlement is a contractual matter , one wonders what can be done to achieve equality of bargaining power in the settlement process . |
| 10 | Thus we should only praise conduct which needs to be stimulated in this way , even though other ( perhaps more selfish ) conduct which will be done anyway is itself good or better . |
| 11 | He says something must be done . |
| 12 | HOOBERMAN is appalled by such an attitude and says something must be done to stop the ‘ sanitisation ’ of literature . |
| 13 | You keep pretending something can be done . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope something will be done now your programme has highlighted the fact that we do n't have to conform . ’ |
| 15 | If ’ — he remembered the architect — ‘ Livings here says it may be done . ’ |
| 16 | But we really do n't feel it should be done as openly as this within a community of young families and children . |
| 17 | Should we be thrusting more work down to districts and th , and they 'll to do the job rather than always assume it should be done at this level ? |
| 18 | Significantly ( in view of the stronger actions of the subsequent Conservative government ) public authorities were asked ‘ to furnish schedules of void sites within the partnership authorities with a view to establishing what could be done to accelerate the development or redevelopment of non-operational sites ’ . |
| 19 | They were told to wait in the hall for the time being , until it was decided what should be done with them . |
| 20 | But neither Paul Johnson nor the party says what should be done about it . |
| 21 | Imagine what might be done with the collected works of Alexander Hamilton when the Founding Fathers project eventually provides them on CD-ROM sometime in the not too distant future . |
| 22 | The City Technology Colleges show what can be done . |
| 23 | This is a key area where professional accountants have already begun to experiment — the 1991 environmental accounts of the Dutch company BSO/Origin , for instance , are reproduced and show what can be done with a bit of imagination and lateral thinking . |
| 24 | ‘ We must do what can be done , ’ said Radulfus heavily , ‘ to recover what has been lost . |
| 25 | Well , we must do what can be done . |
| 26 | Do n't think I 'm advising you to try it … but it does show what can be done . |
| 27 | I wanted to hate him for doing this to me , so much earlier than I had thought it would be done , but it was difficult to hate a man I had such respect for . |
| 28 | That was the goal for 1989 but , despite our best endeavours , the contractor work force did n't believe it could be done . |
| 29 | Mr Deputy Speaker it shows it can be done and I hope others will look after the interests of their tax payers as well . |
| 30 | BP , ICL , IBM , Volvo , British Gas in Wales , British Telecom in the South-west , and a clutch of local authorities , many of which had led the way , had all shown it could be done , with Ford announcing its partial ban recently . |