Example sentences of "nothing [to-vb] with the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence .
2 The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’
3 It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home .
4 The difference has nothing to do with the presence or absence of powerchords .
5 Yet I think there is a difference between the control of living systems and the stability of physical ones , which has nothing to do with the presence or absence of a controlling intelligence .
6 ‘ I would have nothing to do with the Prince or his catamite ! ’
7 Now it 's nothing to do with the day or the time or the months or the week or anything like that .
8 Stars who were nothing to do with the film but stuck their necks out anyway included Sharon ( Basic Instinct ) Stone and Jason ( Beverly Hills 90210 ) Priestley .
9 In 1827 , for reasons which had nothing to do with the success or failure of the enterprise , the land-owner sold the estate and the community was dispersed .
10 So the bankruptcy of the original supplier was nothing to do with the delay or actually going for another supplier ?
11 Mr Sjogren repeated that his client insisted he had nothing to do with the explosion that brought down PanAm 103 .
12 I had nothing to do with the recording and creative side but I changed guitar strings and that kind of thing .
13 I 'm sorry for the five minute delay most of you , I had to seek out about a administrative matter , an administrative matter , nothing to do with the evidence or the place for Mr you had told us earlier in the week about several situations , as the management company .
14 She had known when she set eyes on them that they were nothing to do with the Smoke and nothing to do with the expedition that was preparing .
15 Questioned , Barron had refused to talk to anyone junior to Wickham and even when Wickham went to his hotel he had little to say except that he had met MacQuillan on private business , that it had nothing to do with the murder and was of no interest to the police .
16 It will have nothing to do with the lecture but simply to impress those that my vocabulary is very wide .
17 If it 's some notion of individuation which has nothing to do with the body , nothing to do with the soul and nothing to do , ultimately , with the intellect either .
18 He knew that the embarrassment had nothing to do with the fear that he would question , criticize , move like a spy among them .
19 I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’
20 It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since .
21 Of course this rant has nothing to do with the fact that the Fat DOS team recently took its first flight in a F15 and Strike Eagle .
22 It had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton 's hard-won road to the top just proved to her how ruthless he must have been to have attained his ultimate goal .
23 The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise .
24 ‘ I just wish I could be sure that your chosen career had nothing to do with the fact that it was mine ! ’
25 It had nothing to do with the fact that — that man — had thought it necessary to almost drag her to the top .
26 If multimedia has a future , it has nothing to do with the fact that it can do clever things .
27 ‘ We wanted Carol Channing , ’ said Ernest Lehman , ‘ but the trouble was Carol did n't photograph too well ; it had nothing to do with the fact that she was n't as big a marquee name as Streisand .
28 was able to confirm that 's promotion through the Company had nothing to do with the fact that he cut 's lawns at the weekends .
29 Nothing to do with the fact that your father , General Karl Steiner , was being held at Gestapo Headquarters at Prinz Albrechtstrasse in Berlin for complicity in a plot against the Führer ? ’
30 It 's nothing to do with the fact that he stinks .
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