Example sentences of "do [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Usually this is done as a weekend hobby .
2 Angela did n't ride , though she had done as a child .
3 Silly and stupid , the sort of thing he might have done as a child , pathetic for a man of his age .
4 ‘ She had n't been harmed , but she said Edouard was attacked while she was there and it had been done as a warning to her .
5 ‘ A full and proper economic evaluation is overdue and should be done as a precondition to the allocation of resources beyond 1991 . ’
6 His work at Nuremberg was of an international significance which surpassed anything Lawrence had done as a puisne judge or was to do as a law lord .
7 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
8 ‘ They are asking people to treat what they have done as a success .
9 So , the underlying part of the contract , as I understand it with Bowie , was that he was going to make an album with Tony Visconti and that song had to be done as a single .
10 But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind .
11 But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind .
12 After the success of Twin Peaks , ABC executives are reportedly considering more high risk shows including CopRock , the first police show to be done as a musical in the pilot , a jury signs the verdict in a song composed by Randy Newman .
13 Note that in certain cases this has to be done as a formality and does not necessarily mean that there is anything suspicious about the death .
14 When we 're researching our shows we explain the whole process very carefully to each woman who agrees to be interviewed ; they get paid for talking to us , they give feedback at all stages of the writing process — it 's very much done as a contract .
15 ‘ Women of Troy at the Gate Theatre was done as a response to the crisis in the Middle East .
16 Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ?
17 The later books have very much the air of contrived sequels , with young conspirators or princes in training cut from the same pattern and taking , one by one , the centre of a story , none of them capturing attention as the Stormy Petrel had done as a boy .
18 This involves a slight drop in picture quality , but the copying can be done as a part of the editing routine ( see page 82 ) and the loss in quality is then offset by improvements in presentation that editing inevitably brings .
19 One hospital worker said : ‘ The holiday camp and hotel stuff is ‘ income generation ’ and being done as a priority .
20 Moynihan had emerged into the limelight after the war on the strength of his portraiture , in particular that , done as a War Office Commission , of an ATS girl in uniform , Private Clarke .
21 The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism .
22 Although this was initially done as a form of self-healing , the work was later used in my exhibition The Picture of Health ? in 1984 .
23 We expected that if a task was set as a group task , then it should be done as a group .
24 It is generally done as a reverse of the sequence for dressing .
25 Such unrepresentative surfaces can be stripped away by bombardment of the sample with electrons or ions , and this is often done as a routine precaution to ensure that the surface examined is typical of the bulk material .
26 But further research was needed on climate change : ‘ Before we can translate this into practical policy and precise targets , there is a lot of work to be done as a matter of urgency . ’
27 My concern is that when a child is tested for standard sexually transmitted disease , an HIV test is done as a matter of course without informed consent .
28 But certain things should be done as a matter of course .
29 Now unity can be guaranteed simply by using the same material from beginning to end , as is done as a matter of course in many fugues .
30 I think that really does lead us back to the starting point which is the County Council 's view that er er that comprehensive study needs to be done as a matter of urgency and steps are being taken to get that work moving very soon now .
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