Example sentences of "be do [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We thank you for those in Exeter who have granted permission for the work that has been done on this church building , and for the help that has been given towards the planning of the new building .
2 Some work has been done on this topic in recent years , but this study will differ from previous approaches by linking the unemployment flows much more closely to the other flows in the labour market .
3 It is , however , possible that the experimental data would not be thought conclusive either ; most of the experiments that have been done of this type have been rather artificial ( Marsh 1985a ) .
4 Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation .
5 Perhaps they have read or heard of some of the research which has been done in this field in recent years , and it has opened up their minds .
6 Very little work has been done in this field but there has been sufficient to reveal that the refinement of economic theory ( especially in terms of mathematical sophistication ) is akin to fashioning scalpels to cut through jungle when it comes to the real world of policy-making [ Graham , 1975 ] .
7 Yet if they have been done in this way it means they have not been done !
8 As Lord Wilberforce said in Anisminic : ‘ Although , in theory perhaps , it may be possible for Parliament to set up a tribunal which has full and autonomous powers to fix its own area of operation , that has , so far , not been done in this country . ’
9 In this assessment of the sexual climate we may now look at some of the more reputable work which has been done in this country to analyse sexual experience and attitudes among our population .
10 What little research has been done in this area suggests that the proportion of deprived youngsters heading for the great outdoors is disproportionately low .
11 This chapter will look at the different explanations that have been put forward for girls ' 'failure' in education , and at some of the research that has been done in this area .
12 Sir Crispin felt that the European Community was the natural unit for dealing with environmental problems but not enough has yet been done in this area , since , for example , there is still no European environmental agency .
13 Some experimental work has been done in this area , but not much ; examples can be found in the papers by Becker and Huschens ( 1991 ) , Kogut and Phillips ( 1991 ) , Moon and Keasey ( 1991 ) , Thistle , Battalio , and Kagel ( 1991 ) , and Vossebein and Tietz ( 1990 ) .
14 Indeed , after the lord pope had heard sufficient arguments from both parties , he decreed with the authority of the apostolic see that the same archbishop should demolish the church at his own expense , revoking completely everything that had been done in this matter .
15 ‘ Now , perhaps you 'd like to tell me what you 're doing with this gentleman 's wallet ? ’
16 And he leapt out of the vehicle , What the bloody hell do you think you 're doing with this lot ? !
17 With what-all they 're doing to this planet down at the equator , there 's some weird stuff happening up here .
18 no exactly and this is not what we 're doing in this case
19 Some of us do n't have time to ask ourselves what we 're doing in this world .
20 And then you had twenty people , well , over twenty people sat in the window , and they all had bar meals , and they 'd all been to do with this run , you know , there 's a big run through Twickenham on a Sunday morning ,
21 But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example .
22 I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know .
23 If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred .
24 What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city .
25 This seems to be against what we are doing in this school .
26 And really , you see , that 's what Freud and Bullett are doing in this book .
27 Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well .
28 I also pressed at the city board for something to be done about this problem of the er people disappearing off the poll tax register at an alarming rate I must add .
29 What , in the longer run , should be done about this rule , in a world where there are going to be more separated and divorced couples , and more lone parents ?
30 It could not be done on this day and at this spot but he had heard and seen enough of the bouldery , rocky , unstable earth treachery of the district to know that it was possible .
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