Sentence examples for groundwork has been done from inspiring English sources

"The groundwork has been done and it's best to see what evolves now.

Time for a new broom, maybe, but the groundwork has been done.

"The groundwork has been done and it's best to see what evolves now," said the 1996 world champion.

If he does, or merely comes closer than any Briton has done hitherto, the groundwork has been done here, next to an extinct volcano with only the blue sky and Saharan breeze to distract him.

Electric evangelist Reprints Related items General Motors GMM's latest remodelApr 28th 2009Mr Obama and Sergio Marchionne, Fiat's boss, appear confident that enough groundwork has been done to allow a "surgical" Chapter 11 bankruptcy and a speedy sale of non-core assets to pay off debtholders, taking no more than three or four weeks to complete.

Innovation in organisations is more successful when preliminary groundwork has been done to the necessary standard.

Not enough groundwork had been done.

When I was there back in late 2011, the groundwork had been done and the drains conquered, and the contractors were beginning to lay the Yorkstone paving.

Also, significant work has been done to define the histological and molecular changes in the rabbit after supraspinatus tear (Choi et al. 2002, Perry et al. 2005), thus laying the groundwork for interpretation of a subscapularis tendon injury.

But quietly, Vietnam has been doing more than just complaining; it has laid the groundwork for another strategy to pry the islands from China's grasp.

This is an attractive theory, but I think it underestimates the amount of groundwork that had been done by the 18th-century novelists in general and Fielding in particular.