Example sentences of "[vb pp] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going to cover press releases , a very important way of feeding information into the media generally , and there I 'm glad to say you 're going to do a lot of the work — you 've already been primed to do your homework , I hope you have — and you 're going to do work from group and we 're going to work with you to see whether we can sharpen up some of these press releases . |
| 2 | Farnham will miss the extra pace of Lee , but the club have resolved to do without overseas players . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] To what numberless mean things did not this unmanly passion subject me ? [ to PAMELA ] My sister Davers would have had you live with her , but she would not do for you what I am resolved to do if you continue faithful and obliging . |
| 4 | He agreed that a regrettable lack of foresight was at the root of it , but he felt that there were extenuating circumstances , and he seemed resolved to do something about it , in so far as he could . |
| 5 | Recognising the hopelessness of her situation , she had resolved to do what she ought to have done years ago , and systematically banished him from her heart . |
| 6 | As soon as she thought this , she realised that she had resolved to do the very same every time she killed one of her pigs . |
| 7 | Most begin by asserting their commitment to democracy , yet few would commit themselves completely to the notion that if the people want to wallow in sin , they should be permitted to do so . |
| 8 | It is true that many people cling to office , or are permitted to do so , and it is often that barnacle-like permanence which gives committees and boards a sense of dull sameness and an unwillingness to reform . |
| 9 | Who through the attention of Mr. Creed , and Mr. Lord his assistant secretary , many hundreds were permitted to do so . ’ |
| 10 | Individual users of software will not be permitted to copy or distribute copies of any software product or its documentation unless permitted to do so under the terms of the licence . |
| 11 | Yet whatever they did with their talents , the one thing , notoriously , which wealthy men in the Middle Ages were not permitted to do was to lend their money at interest . |
| 12 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
| 13 | Crossings took the traditional form ( Figure 6.11 ) : there is no doubt here as to whom the road is for , or that walkers may only cross when permitted to do so by car drivers . |
| 14 | Is it permitted to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath , to save life or to destroy it ( Mark 3:4 ; Luke 14:3 ) . |
| 15 | Is it permitted to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath ; to save life or to kill ? |
| 16 | De Gaulle wanted first for the Commission to end the pretence that it was a potential European government , and also its efforts to impose itself on national governments ; and second that if the Treaty of Rome requirements about majority voting were to apply , they should not be permitted to do so in situations where a member state deemed its vital interests to be at risk . |
| 17 | As most of the pontoons are rented to local yacht owners or associations one should not dock at a slip unless permitted to do so by the port police . |
| 18 | I am sure you will agree that it is in the best interests of the traditions of our society that there should be these circumspect checks and controls on what a public authority is permitted to do to interfere in the private lives of individuals , but at the same time it does make it difficult to act promptly and , in certain cases , and this must be one of them , one can only regret the outcome . ’ |
| 19 | However , the four Basque deputies elected in October for United People ( HB ) had still not taken up their seats , and the Constitutional Court confirmed in a ruling on March 29 that they would not be permitted to do so unless they swore the conventional oath of allegiance to the Constitution [ see p. 37135 ] . |
| 20 | After an examination procedure lasting on average 13 months , only about 9 per cent were found to be genuine political refugees , but many others stayed on illegally or were permitted to do so on humanitarian grounds . |
| 21 | ‘ Special admission ’ applicants are persons from overseas who would not normally be entitled to join the vocational course at the Inns of Court School of Law ( ICSL ) , but can be permitted to do so in exceptional circumstances . |
| 22 | A safer course ( assuming that the business wishes to exclude liability where it is permitted to do so — ie in non-consumer cases ) is to have one set of terms , including the appropriate exclusion clauses , but to include a provision that the forbidden exclusions do not apply in a case where the buyer deals as a consumer . |
| 23 | In practice the majority of investment trust assets are held in quoted company securities , although they are also free to invest in property and trade in currency options and futures , none of which unit trusts are permitted to do . |
| 24 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 25 | Nothing is worse for young people when they start work , particularly if they join large companies , than to spend a year or so sitting with Nelly before they are trusted to do anything . |
| 26 | Only a family member could be trusted to do this . |
| 27 | Teeth-cleaning , proper washing , saying of prayers , they were trusted to do those on their own . |
| 28 | And when these did n't meet with immediate success , yet more surveys were done and more programmes developed — until , ultimately , it was decided that , if parents could not be trusted to do the right thing , the decision had to be taken out of their hands . |
| 29 | He 's trusted to do everything . |
| 30 | No one else can be trusted to do it . ’ |