Example sentences of "what [verb] been done [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A characteristic of automatic performance is an apparent loss of memory for what has been done during the previous few moments .
2 stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid .
3 The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past .
4 Here , though , is a very brief account of what has been done to date and what was found .
5 This is what has been done for ‘ pocket ’ LC TV .
6 Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth .
7 ‘ We are so grateful for what has been done for Sheng . ’
8 I have said a good deal more on Government Back Benches than I have on Opposition Back Benches and very often it has been what has been done on Government Back Benches that has saved even Labour Governments from some of their follies .
9 This is essentially what has been done at Foster Wheeler over the past six years , and the views expressed in this paper arise largely from reflecting on the experiences of that project .
10 Imagine wanting to live in that room , that awful room , with walls like dung-heaps , what has happened in there , what has been done in that room ?
11 He justified his policy to the Chiefs of Staff by arguing , ‘ We shall be doing no more than what has been done in Italy … in turning people who were satellites … into co-belligerents . ’
12 The distinction has to be considered at least to some extent because only by identifying what has been done in the past can one see how deficiencies remain to be corrected in the future research agenda .
13 1 Homework in language teaching should be : an additional practice on what has been done in class a test of what has been previously learnt an opportunity for written work 2 Before setting homework , consider : the free time the students have to do it in their level of attainment , their general level of ability , their purpose in learning the language .
14 Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation .
15 see what has been done in Kings Langley and Apsley for something similar , on a similar scale , for ourselves .
16 ‘ And what has been done in the matter ? ’
17 They 've been taken as typical of the senior editors and right across every function area is is covered by that and I 've got erm sample job descriptions for all the editorial levels and I can get them for any other secretarial levels or design and I can acquire those if you want to see what has been done in terms of trying to draw up a framework , you know , that kind of thing .
18 The September issue of Catholic Voice , our diocesan newspaper , carried an insert — four pages giving an overview of the diocese — what has been done by many people — clergy and laity — during recent years — what should be developed or initiated , together with a general account of the financial position .
19 summarise it , and an awful lot of what has been done by the subjects
20 He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why .
21 ‘ It was a combination of shock , pain and exhaustion and the overall effect of what had been done to her . ’
22 Then , in her attempt to experience more closeness to her husband and to drive him to understand what she felt like but could not make conscious or put into words , she did to him what had been done to her .
23 J. Anderson Black ( alias Gordon M. Williams ) was not amused by what had been done to his novel .
24 She could no longer bring to the man she loved her untouched innocence , and , worse than that , she could not bear his lovemaking because it reminded her so bitterly of what had been done to her .
25 He suspected that perhaps McAllister , always so gallant in facing life , as he had now seen on several occasions , had tried to suppress , to crush down the awful memory of what had been done to her , had refused to give way to grief , to shed healing tears , until in his arms something had reminded her so strongly of what had passed and broken the barriers her will had erected .
26 She appreciated Doc Threadneedle 's handiwork , but also she learned to love what had been done for her before the biowizard came along .
27 Miguel took the card and wrote on it what had been done for Samantha .
28 She supplemented the once-weekly group sessions by finishing activities begun in the session with her class and she sometimes initiated a task for the whole class to do to reinforce what had been done with the advisory teacher .
29 s to see what had been done over there .
30 More generally in geography as a whole Chisholm ( 1967 ) dismissed the approach as formalizing what had been done before and employing ‘ a jargon-ridden statement of the obvious ’ .
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