Example sentences of "to do with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Articles on exhibitions sometimes glide away into topics which have little to do with the art on display . |
| 2 | The last story has to do with the girlfriend of a friend . |
| 3 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 4 | That has something to do with the indefinable thing called talent . |
| 5 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 6 | I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’ |
| 7 | This has very little to do with the quality and entertainment value of the films themselves . |
| 8 | What gets investment and what is shown has far more to do with the economic stranglehold of the Hollywood studios and the distribution/exhibition chains . |
| 9 | The main cause is almost always something to do with the pilot 's flying skills or judgements . |
| 10 | ( In the air this is nothing to do with the actual wind . |
| 11 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 12 | It fits perfectly the charm and naivety of the early to mid-fifties ; it has little to do with the self conscious posturings of the later period that Scobie wishes to impute to it ; most of all that of the ‘ Beat generation ’ , for most of the book had been written before Howl howled and junkie commenced the near-universal junketings . |
| 13 | This combination of speed and close attention may have a lot to do with the narrative thrust and atmospheric coherence and intensity that make this the most gripping of his novels . |
| 14 | ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises : |
| 15 | The ‘ tangent … in the hand 's cup ’ has to do with the legend that the shapes of the finest Greek vases were replicated from the contour of the divinely beautiful woman 's breast , as cupped in her lover 's hand and thereafter imprinted on his mind — obviously a powerful emblem of how the impulse to artistic manufacture is erotic . |
| 16 | Rather plainly the poem decides , as others have decided before and since , that the revolution 's humble heroes , revolution once accomplished , did not know what to do with the liberation they had achieved . |
| 17 | But it is charitable to assume that it has something to do with the kind of critic that Pound is . |
| 18 | Cynics have pointed out that this might have something to do with the toll . |
| 19 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 20 | Things have backfired and the ANC , previously reluctant out of principle to have anything to do with the Transkei , has pragmatically leapt to exploit the opportunity . |
| 21 | The US Southern Command called the accusations ridiculous , declaring : ‘ We had nothing to do with the coup . ’ |
| 22 | Politics has very little to do with issues ; it is all to do with the personal vanities and ambitions of politicians . |
| 23 | Mr Collins told The Independent : ‘ These are long standing , difficult , complex , sensitive issues relating to security , which have to do with the preservation of life or acts which result in the deaths of innocent people . |
| 24 | Aesthetes among the novices will by now be thoroughly irritable and complaining that gardens should have as much to do with the soul as with the necessity or not of a washing line or a barbecue pit . |
| 25 | The problem of what to do with the 55,000 Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong detention centres will figure prominently in the talks . |
| 26 | They mention everyone who 's had anything to do with the song . |
| 27 | The Philistines have nothing to do with the Arabs , a Semitic people , who invaded the Holy Land from Arabia in the seventh century . |
| 28 | Something to do with the number of casualties they are having . ’ |
| 29 | The third reason why Dzerzhinsky was sent off to distant Siberia was purely political , and had little to do with the railways . |
| 30 | Beth thought it was something to do with the heat haze but I know a centaur when I see one . |