Example sentences of "do for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the liberated world of radical chic , we may be intended to think , favours could be done for the right person . |
| 2 | While preparing an early draft of the present chapter , the writer heard Bishop Cathal Daly of Down and Connor , a leading moderate among the bishops , respected by all except PIRA , repeat the adage that the Irish constitution was secular , implying that there really was little to be done for the moment . |
| 3 | Side leg exercises can be done to work the outer thigh area , and a wide variety of scissor-type exercises can be done for the hips and lower stomach areas , ( More advanced stomach exercises can be carried out using weights if desired . ) |
| 4 | ‘ Local management of schools has done to education what opted-out hospitals has done for the NHS . |
| 5 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 6 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 7 | ‘ Japan is our biggest export market and we have seen what protectionism has done for the US automotive industry . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A 1987 book on the four major championships , done for the British market , had as its winners Larry Mize , Scott Simpson , Nick Faldo and Larry Nelson — three bores out of four . |
| 10 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 11 | Independence requires , however , two things missing in Britain and America : the regular rotation of auditors ; and the banning of conflicts of interest between work done for the shareholders ( auditing ) and the increasing amount the same firms do for the managers ( consultancy ) . |
| 12 | OVER a quarter of British adults — 11m of them — own shares , says a new survey done for the Treasury and the London stock exchange . |
| 13 | Not after all you 've done for the Corporation . |
| 14 | She has just finished a portrait of seven-year-old Tulip Dempster , a Pekingese , commissioned by Lady Camilla for Nigel Dempster 's birthday — the second one she has done for the family — and a portrait of Mr and Mrs John Menzies ' two dogs . |
| 15 | Anything that is done for shock value has no future because it 's done for the moment . |
| 16 | All this may be done for the best of reasons but it only ensures that children bottle up their feelings as well as their tears , which , as we have seen in previous chapters , can have far-reaching effects . |
| 17 | A study done for the pensioner 's parliament found that the basic pension paid in Britain in 1988 was lower than that paid in every country except Portugal — but Germany , which has a high pension , and Ireland , which has a low one , were omitted for technical reasons . |
| 18 | Mr Leslie Draper , her solicitor , said : ‘ She was appalled at the hardship following atrocities in Northern Ireland and was not convinced enough was being done for the people left behind . |
| 19 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |
| 20 | Corporal punishment amounts to anything done for the purposes of punishing the pupil , whether or not there ire other reasons for doing it , which would amount to a battery . |
| 21 | That is the analysis Johansson has done for Sweden , and Reddy has done for the state of Karnataka , India . |
| 22 | I do n't like the title , it 's probably done for the right reasons but … well … |
| 23 | They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’ |
| 24 | Contained in the DNA are ‘ library rules ’ dictating what has to be done for the instructions for a particular protein to be taken out and ‘ read ’ . |
| 25 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 26 | Looking now at the actual differences in digestion between the different predator species , they can be divided into a number of categories as was done for the molars . |
| 27 | But the plain truth is that we can not say what was really done for the children or what the results were . |
| 28 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |
| 29 | Salsburg says this was never done for the NCI test , which throws doubt on the high percentage of compounds found to cause cancer . |
| 30 | There is no reason why Tanzania should not combine an examination , which is based on the things we teach , with a teacher and pupil assessment of work done for the school and community . |