Example sentences of "has [adv] done [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The market has since done much to polish up its self-regulation , though it is still far from squeaky-clean .
2 She has since done this and due to popular demand has now made the patterns available for £3.25 to include p&p direct from Roz Kellett , .
3 Mama has not done that .
4 Let your imagination roan with your desperately running heroine firmly in the centre of your mind and then from the incidents that will ( if you have a ration of luck ) spring up , arrange them in order of difficulty , if your intuition has not done that already for you .
5 A person who is wrongly accused will know that he has not done that of which he is suspected , example , and may be indignant at being the object of suspicion .
6 The government has not done much to restrain it .
7 If he has not done much gardening before , you can work together , so that you can enjoy sharing the tasks , and it is easier for you to assess when the patient has had enough .
8 This has not done much to improve its reputation as a heavy , high-calorie food , which is certainly undeserved .
9 Apart from that , Mr Clinton has not done much with drugs policy .
10 This neglected village has not done much to draw attention to its grand literary connections , though it has quite a prepossessing seventeenth-century church with a delightful octagonal tower and a two-storey cloister .
11 However , the feeling among certain firms on the scheme is that it has not done much if anything to generate business from new clients .
12 Every baptised German who has not done this and who pays income tax must also pay the additional church tax .
13 He dismisses the widespread belief among manufacturers that the Government has not done enough to help them , with : ‘ Oh well , that 's human nature , is n't it ? ’
14 Additionally , he noted that ‘ many people feel that the system has not done enough to protect what is good in an environment or to ensure that new development is of a sufficiently high quality ’ .
15 He has not done enough to satisfy the hardliners in the City who wanted him to take at least £2.5 billion out of the economy in 1993-94 .
16 But her solicitor said : ‘ Admitting this has not done any good .
17 ‘ He has already done five months in custody so he wo n't serve much .
18 I have spoken to Mr Round , who claims he has already done one of the jobs . ’
19 I have spoken to Mr Round , who claims he has already done one of the jobs . ’
20 History has already done that for me and the positioning of those buttons on your jacket indicate its historic pedigree .
21 For the movement from immanent proximity to critical distance in de Man 's authorial voice has already done that work .
22 Christian Davis has already done that .
23 Internally , GE has already done much to dismantle the bureaucratic command-and-control systems that beset so many of America 's big businesses .
24 The disabled people 's movement has already done much solid work in redefining disability and in creating the basis of a new hegemony of ideas which rests on direct experience of the problems we face in our daily lives .
25 He has already done much to improve support for local action , encouraging and advising our many active volunteers .
26 Clandestinely Sun , which will only admit to tracking the industry , has already done some X terminals deals , sources say , including its agreement with Labtam in Australia ( UX No 391 ) .
27 But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia .
28 If you believe that the property has been seriously overpriced , you should instruct your solicitor to obtain an independent valuation , unless you have a mortgage company which has already done this for you .
29 He has already done this and has brought the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it .
30 No Chancellor of any party has ever done that in the past and no Chancellor is ever likely to do so in the future .
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