Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a task that is better done by the human eye , together with — and this is more to the point — the 10-giganeurone computer inside the skull . |
| 2 | It 's transferring a limited provision of legal aid into a grant to an auth to an organisation which it controls and funds , which is not allowed to do the work that is currently done under the legal aid scheme . |
| 3 | But doing the whole thing — removing daytime clothes , putting on special sleeping garments , emptying the bladder , cleaning the teeth and finally getting into the purpose-built sleeping furniture — is something that is only done in the bedrooms specially built for the purpose . |
| 4 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 5 | Thanet wing , however , has as its primary purpose to keep its inmates from physical harm ; the good work that is undoubtedly done there with individuals is almost a bonus . |
| 6 | Ah thank you that 's good that 's good that 's enough that 's enough do n't want any more of that . |
| 7 | Sometimes you can ride a horse that 's never done it before . |
| 8 | Free discussion about the quality of the work of the learner is also necessary , and is best done away from the bedside . |
| 9 | Making improvements to existing , uninsulated , timber or concrete floors is likely to be highly disruptive and prohibitively expensive , and is best done as part of a major renovation programme . |
| 10 | The most difficult operation is transferring the ants to the housing , and is best done out of doors . |
| 11 | Providing the classes at adult centres is a positive move towards integration , but the teaching required in the classroom is specialised and is generally done in separate classes . |
| 12 | Energy analysis of electrons is equivalent to velocity analysis , and is generally done by the application of a controlled electrostatic field which deflects electrons with a particular velocity into the detector . |
| 13 | She then made a most offensive and denigrating remark about my practice , and is probably doing the same thing to everyone else here . ’ |
| 14 | This process of taking information which is normally destined for the screen and sending it somewhere else is called redirection and is usually done with the > symbol . |
| 15 | This needs to be done skilfully , and is usually done by trained researchers , who are adept at getting people to talk and at avoiding asking leading questions — because that is not merely cheating , it will lead to you deluding yourself : in this type of interview people are only too eager to tell you what they think you want to know . |
| 16 | What he really wanted to do , and is now doing , is research on the effect that the shape of ordinary furniture has on the way people respond to each other . |
| 17 | The smash sequel has already taken the United States by storm and is now doing the same here . |
| 18 | She was too young to join the forces in Vietnam , but really wishes she could have been there and is now doing her utmost to make up for it . |
| 19 | as earlier as is reasonably to do so |
| 20 | These suffer from the further problem of treating all deprivation as relative and scaling all measures to the same variance ( as is also done for the index of an ‘ area 's social conditions ’ used in the assessment of GRE ) . |
| 21 | One may choose to adopt a broadly aesthetic approach to texts , as is often done , perfectly appropriately , but one then encounters what seems to me a potentially disabling contradiction . |
| 22 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 23 | These distinctions make it important that we do not confuse , as is often done in the linguistic and philosophical literature , the categories of addressee and hearer . |
| 24 | Tip : Decor materials can be sealed with matt or gloss polyurethane vanish , as is sometimes done to bogwood . |
| 25 | If , as is sometimes done , things are assimilated to events , we can speak of particulars as events , and of the latter as being " temporal " in the sense that every event exhibits a pattern of change in some direction , and can be said to occur simultaneously with , or before , or after , some other event . |
| 26 | Furthermore , it is , I shall argue , no less mistaken to regard experiences , as is sometimes done , as being analogous to " logical states " of certain sophisticated machines ; unless such machines are endowed with so many human characteristics ( including the capacity of " empathetic imagination " ) that a comparison becomes trivial , and the word " machine " no longer means what it ordinarily means . |
| 27 | It is not of course sufficient to obtain an order to say that the facts alleged are wrong , as is sometimes done , because that is a matter to be decided on a hearing . |
| 28 | The reason for this is because the requirements of continuously scanning the screen , as is usually done for a lightpen , would slow the games down too much . |