Example sentences of "are do [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The foreign gentleman wo n't have a notion how things are done below stairs .
2 The buttons of his shirt are done up wrong .
3 What concerns us is that if those things are done outside the IASC 's control , it threatens to undermine our credibility .
4 All manipulations are done under a dissecting microscope using glass cavity blocks and glass mouth pipettes ( angled if necessary ) .
5 Even gentle exercises , such as Yoga , can put tremendous stress on the body if they are done without first dealing with the fundamental issues of end-gaining and faulty sensory perception .
6 Fortunately for frail elderly people , there are many who offer altruistic neighbouring acts , that is to say , they are done without assumptions of reciprocity ; the gratification which they obtain is in a sense their own private business !
7 ‘ Let them put it on you and you are done for at last — food for the cannons , and the swamp-fever , and the hulks .
8 But it is unrealistic to take an excessively puritan position , such that the only disinterested arguments are those which damage the speaker 's well-being , the only good actions those which are done for no reason at all .
9 Dr James D Gallagher , director of medical research at Lederle Laboratories , has said : ‘ Animal studies are done for legal reasons , and not for scientific ones . ’
10 Some of his projects , such as Nicaragua , are done for hardly any money and on some of them , he loses a great deal of money .
11 And then — ‘ The Boches are done for ! ’
12 I know that many killings are done for next to nothing but we are not dealing with street muggers or footloose louts , we are dealing with the middle-aged and the middle-class-people who know which side their bread is buttered and value their reputations almost more than their deeds and their share certificates .
13 Deals are done for very large sums at very small rates of profit .
14 In the intricate world of Asian business , such things are done for a reason .
15 If you get a chance , watch how things are done at professional yards , where time really does mean money .
16 Well urgent tasks would be tasks that are done at that time , to complete them .
17 It 's just that we do rather more sophisticated versions sometimes of very similar things which are done at school , but they might be done more precisely , simply in a rather more sophisticated way .
18 We 're trying to do things which on many occasions we 're actually doing things which are done at university with them , in a simplified form , of course , but just to give them this perspective , this view of physics .
19 Most deals are done on the basis of 60:40 .
20 Embryologists are sensitive about issues relating to animal experimentation and the vast majority of experiments are done on very early embryos which are rarely allowed to develop to maturity .
21 It requires a change in thinking because ‘ there is no longer a simple correspondence between the way things are done on a drawing board and using the machine . ’
22 But the fact is that such tests are done on single chemicals , never on mixtures .
23 Use the best quality paper , and if you are getting several photocopies made make sure they are done on good quality paper and not ordinary photocopy paper .
24 These are done on tendered tendered totals or actual costs .
25 For the reject results the same calculations are done on the unshaded area giving revised probabilities of 0·32 for the 10 per cent and 0·68 for the 2 per cent levels .
26 For the reject results the same calculations are done on the unshaded area giving revised probabilities of 0.32 for the 10 per cent and 0.68 for the 2 per cent levels .
27 At the moment the figures of housing provision in that draft advice are rat are done on a rather different basis for West Yorkshire as opposed to the other counties in the region .
28 and and and and and and in fact the the provision of sewerage and er and and water supply are are are a matter of of er things which are done on demand and er are are covered by infrastructure charges .
29 The checks are done on a charge code basis , specified by the user , on the latest ‘ n ’ issues of each module .
30 ‘ Some are done on word processors and faxed through to me on company-headed newspaper .
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