Example sentences of "do [prep] the [adj] nature [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies chopped and changed their holdings , for reasons that might have little to do with the specific nature of the businesses involved . |
| 2 | ( This undoubtedly has to do with the resultative nature of the passive . ) |
| 3 | There is a further theme to do with the collective nature of social life . |
| 4 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |
| 5 | And perhaps that has something to do with the very nature of an ex-patriate community . |
| 6 | The first , having to do with the very nature of the notations , is that some of them have certainly been added at a later date . |
| 7 | Both " skill " and " apprenticeship " are notions which have been challenged by feminist writers as having less to do with the intrinsic nature of the work than with the sex of the people doing it . |
| 8 | If a given thing x is related to a given thing y , it is argued , this must be seen as having to do with the intrinsic nature of x , and the intrinsic nature of x can , in the final analysis , be fully understood only as a feature of the whole to which it and everything else belongs . |
| 9 | The precedent suggests a reference to persons under the Tenant 's control in order to exclude mere callers , but where the clause refers to servants of the tenant ( which some precedents do despite the archaic nature of the expression ) it may be as well to qualify this with the words in the course of employment in case it is claimed that a servant will , by the nature of the expression , always be under the tenant 's control . |