Example sentences of "be done [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surveys of radon in UK homes have been done since 1976 about 24000 homes will have been tested . |
| 2 | It 's been done up you see , it 's been altered and it 's now the community centre they call it is it not Nana ? |
| 3 | All , all that Manchester Road improvement oh it 's all been done up you see . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , 'ave you been done down by one , Joe ? ’ |
| 5 | The opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell pressed the point and eventually , on 14 May , Eden was forced to admit that an underwater spying operation had been carried out against the Russian ships by Crabb but that it had been done without official approval . |
| 6 | Between humdrum research and showpiece research , what the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is work which is both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 7 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 8 | It was one of six in the same building , but because the conversion had been done without planning permission , it did n't officially exist , and they 're saddled with a mortgage of £39,000 . |
| 9 | And if I might just come in on this thing that 's always thrown up against Mrs. Thatcher about her rejoice , she said rejoice when South Georgia had been retaken and the rejoice was because it appeared to have been done without any casualties — that was what she was rejoicing for , not the victory erm |
| 10 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 11 | Again no reference will be made to party authorities in the guberniia capital , since this has already been done for Smolensk . |
| 12 | ‘ I certainly do , ’ Frau Nordern answered , as if the room had been done for her . |
| 13 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 14 | If they 've asked for really impossible things , it means the whole siege has been done for publicity — and they 'll probably kill Liam whatever happens . |
| 15 | ‘ The kennels failed health and safety standards , so they 're half finished — nothing 's been done for a year . |
| 16 | By the time the Scandinavian countries invited Britain back to Stockholm for the 1982 Conference on Acidification , the sums had been done for exchange of acid pollution between Europe 's nations , showing Britain to be the biggest producer and exporter of sulphur pollution in Western Europe . |
| 17 | Schools that have had an HMI inspection have found that much of their work has been done for them — though it is difficult to imagine that schools will therefore be applying in large numbers for a full inspection ! |
| 18 | He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping . |
| 19 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 20 | This is what has been done for ‘ pocket ’ LC TV . |
| 21 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 22 | James decided to concentrate his efforts on subduing Londonderry , but in the end had to ride back , damp and disappointed , to Dublin , where , on 26 April , as he wrote in his memoirs , ‘ he found the arms not arrived from Cork , Kinsale or Waterford ; and that in the arsenal nothing had been done for preparing of tools ’ . |
| 23 | It will certainly not be possible to totally reconstruct all the streets of an area at a cost of up to DM 1 million/100m as has been done for single streets in the past ’ |
| 24 | This is the job of the dealer … providing you buy from a reputable source , you can be sure this will have been done for you . |
| 25 | Mother General 's view was that enough had been done for the child already . |
| 26 | Angle has a plaque honouring its Fighter Command history and the same has been done for Pembroke Dock and its flying-boat squadrons . |
| 27 | She appreciated Doc Threadneedle 's handiwork , but also she learned to love what had been done for her before the biowizard came along . |
| 28 | The public spectacle of culture , the adoption of culture by the media , the standardisation of culture , the cultural discourse , cultural self-satisfaction , a slack cultural conformism , the recuperation of culture never has so much apparently been done for culture , never have the results ( another word that deserves some elaboration ) been so disappointing . |
| 29 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 30 | When she hinted to Dona Marguerita that she was sometimes bored and would like to get out of the house and see more of the country , the old lady was quick to point out how much had already been done for her . |