Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were done in the City , the IRA could simply switch their targets to prestigious offices in the provinces . |
| 2 | This was to do with the difficulty of financing conferences of this type . |
| 3 | This was done with the collaboration of the Braun workshop , and V. V. Reiner who painted the sala terrena in the garden . |
| 4 | This was done with the best of intentions , to stop consumers damaging such records with mono pickups , but it opened the floodgates to many types of fake-stereo records in the following decades . |
| 5 | When this was done with the GHS 1980 data , half the elderly people ( 49 per cent ) had no disability and a quarter some slight disability ( 26 per cent ) . |
| 6 | This was done with the frigid politeness of two people who do not like each other , know they do not like each other , but have never let that dislike come out into the open . |
| 7 | In the Chilean case , as is well known , this was done with the active collaboration of the US government and TNCs . |
| 8 | The Crown alleged that this was done at the instigation of the appellant with knowledge that the money should have been delivered up to the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy . |
| 9 | The system was complicated by the introduction at a late stage of a further provision enabling federal states to designate more than one Central Authority ; this was done on the suggestion of the German Federal Republic ( which had previously resisted the British proposal as tending to multiply Central Authorities ) to enable expression to be given to the sovereignty of the German Länder in the field of justice , and does require the applicant to identify the Land in question . |
| 10 | If a text needed to be amended , or comment made on it , this was done on the file itself , either on the relevant paper within the file or on a note attached to it . |
| 11 | This was done without the knowledge of Napoleon III , who was astonished by the amount and , interestingly , remarked that ‘ half of that would have been more than enough ’ . |
| 12 | This was done through the Getty Art History Information Program . |
| 13 | At a popular level this was done through the transmission of beliefs and practices through folk-lore . |
| 14 | We said in the chapter that this was done through the medium of arriving at a written-down cost or value . |
| 15 | This was done from the year of diagnosis until 1 January 1990 or until death . |
| 16 | This was done upon the eldest son attaining the age of 21 years . |
| 17 | When the king commanded deer to be taken for his use in the royal forests it was usually the warden 's responsibility to see that this was done in the proper manner . |
| 18 | This was done in the early part of the summer and was just disclosed . |
| 19 | This was done in the presence of Lydie Huyghe and her art historian and académicien husband René , the Director of the museum . |
| 20 | Children can be encouraged to look back at how they found particular pieces of information and to ask themselves whether this was done in the most efficient way . |
| 21 | This was done in the following ways : ( a ) By extending the concept of legal right . |
| 22 | All this was done in the face of considerable hostility from her male audiences . |
| 23 | This was done in the name of one of our pensioners . |
| 24 | All this was done by the morning of the I twelfth day ; and all that day the people of the Cid were busied in making ready their arms , and in loading beasts with all that they had , so that they left nothing of any price in the whole city of Valencia , save only the empty houses . |
| 25 | As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits . |
| 26 | The first process in scoring the data was to assign descriptions to particular junctions , this was done by the experimenter . |
| 27 | This was done after the basic stress analysis work had been carried out . |
| 28 | Most of it was done in the seventies , some was done in the sixties . |
| 29 | Much was done by the upper classes to cultivate the political awareness of the population at large , through various forms of propaganda ranging from tracts , newspapers , sermons , through to public celebrations and civic rituals . |
| 30 | The second was to do with the design of the machinery to increase job cycle times and to reduce the extent to which work would be machine paced . |