Example sentences of "[adv] to do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , but it also goes down to do with erm , matinee and doing the evening performance |
| 2 | It seemed closer but it was an illusion and there was a lot of up and down to do before the final climb to this high headland point on the south coast . |
| 3 | This is not only to do with the intellectual innovations that led to the idea of the first factual surveys through to the social psychological and , finally , to the explanatory surveys incorporating variable analysis , but also to do with what is indicated about the nature of society and social life . |
| 4 | Yeah , but they have only to do with things like national security and and |
| 5 | or is it only to do with doors opening ? |
| 6 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 7 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 8 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 9 | Because i i they though it was in competition with other varieties around and it something t It was n't necessarily to do with the fact that erm they though it was less it held less prestige in the community . |
| 10 | Honours are one thing , and it 's not necessarily to do with class , because any one of any class can get on |
| 11 | Now that her children are old enough to do without a nanny , Sheila refuses all help in the house , preferring to do all her shopping herself . |
| 12 | A small fire was lit to make the dining room even more cheerful — although it was warm enough to do without one — and when the four of them reassembled , the small room in the Fish would have been ‘ a credit , ’ Hope said , in his most pleasingly generous mood , ‘ to any inn the length , and breadth of the country . ’ |
| 13 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 14 | It sounded as though Stock was no more , as though at last she was free , strong enough to do without him , to get rid of his influence and accept Graham as more of — and more than — a friend . |
| 15 | TO READ PETER HOUNAM 's letter , you would think he had had little enough to do with Michael Murrin . |
| 16 | Carol had quite enough to do with her own job and all her own shopping without preparing meals as well and she hoped she would have a little rest after Christmas , now that people took time off in lots of offices until after the New Year . |
| 17 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 18 | and er there 's enough to do at the front and the back . |
| 19 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |
| 20 | But the earlier propaganda image of a ‘ human ’ and even ‘ family ’ Hitler , coming from the people , sharing its worries and cares , and understanding ‘ the little man ’ seemed to have less and less to do with reality . |
| 21 | She does not deny the philosophical impetus toward a Horatian retirement , but suggests that garden retreats often had less to do with spiritual delights than with ‘ the bodily and social pleasures of a fashionable men 's club transposed to rural surroundings … |
| 22 | In the early years , this was less to do with protests from the outside than with poor decision-making and technical incompetence on the inside . |
| 23 | The nickname he acquired at this stage — Tiger Tim — was less to do with his crusading journalistic style than his relentless pursuit of late contributors to the magazine . |
| 24 | Conscription , they protested , had less to do with military preparedness than with providing the Government with the power to coerce the labour movement . |
| 25 | Indeed , this sexual labelling had less to do with actual sexual practices than with the extent to which young women 's behaviour conformed to the popular ideas of ‘ femininity ’ — for instance by the use of swear words or loud behaviour , ( this is more fully discussed in Sue Lees , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | Director Peter Smallridge claims this was less to do with ideology and more for the benefit of service users . |
| 27 | The prospering of Unionism had less to do with the war than is generally assumed , and it was more healthy in 1914 and less certain of prosperity in 1922 . |
| 28 | The internal mechanisms regulating relations between different enterprises and industries during the long post-war boom had less to do with price competition between enterprises and , in countries like the UK , more to do with state policies . |
| 29 | Consequently , the fate of children 's contributions sometimes had less to do with their quality than with their ability to sustain the teacher 's pre-existing intentions for the session as a whole . |
| 30 | This was less to do with Olivier 's plunging rousingly into ‘ Once more into the breach , dear friends ’ than with his own attempts to plunge ‘ Once more into the bra straps , dear friend ’ . |