Example sentences of "to do with [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whether yer believe it or not , do n't ever let me see or know yer 've 'ad anything to do with 'er agen , ’ she concluded . |
| 2 | Size clearly has something to do with its effect , he wrote , but not size as reflection of ego . |
| 3 | What then will humanity find to do with its hitherto misdirected energies ? |
| 4 | Each science has to do with its own genus , or ‘ kind ’ , which is divided by ‘ differentia ’ into various species . |
| 5 | Prima facie such a corporation has the power to do with its property all such acts as an ordinary person can do , and to bind itself to such contracts as an ordinary person can bind himself to . |
| 6 | However , the overwhelming majority of those inhabitants of the subcontinent who adhered to Islam had no sense of identification with the dynasty ( even when they knew it existed ) and the fact that the dynasty was Muslim had little to do with its exercise of power . |
| 7 | Its reason for this is largely to do with its distrust of the judges who , it feels , would use their power to strike down government action or legislation as being contrary to a Bill of Rights , as the American courts can do , to promote their own conservative values . |
| 8 | Germany is having even more trouble deciding what to do with its satellite than France . |
| 9 | But the company did not know what to do with its discovery : Lyle and other directors feared that developing sucralose would create a powerful competitor for the real thing . |
| 10 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 11 | It had nothing to do with its policies , Neil Kinnock or its campaign . |
| 12 | As we argued here on 17 April , Labour 's failure in the 1992 election was more to do with its inability to mobilise its traditional base of support than with any inability to reach out to newer social groupings . |
| 13 | The reasons for believing the silicon chip to be the cause of another industrial revolution are to do with its cost , capability , and versatility . |
| 14 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |
| 15 | The increase in local stress , which can be calculated , depends solely upon the shape of the hole and has nothing at all to do with its size . |
| 16 | That the attack was an unmitigated tactical disaster for the American military no doubt had much to do with its omission in post-war tales . |
| 17 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 18 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 19 | That is why it is important that the recent troubles at Lloyd 's have more to do with its constitution and management than with the riskiness of the world in which the organization operates . |
| 20 | Because the baby 's drastic ascendancy has to do with its voice . |
| 21 | Paprika 's is a tiny restaurant whose walls are covered in extinct record covers ( Julie London , Vicky Carr ) , menus which have nothing to do with its own , candid photographs of mouths and patrons eating . |
| 22 | I am pleased that my right hon. Friend the Member for City of Chester ( Sir P. Morrison ) had a lot to do with its founding when he was a Minister in this Department . |
| 23 | There is one additional point we want to make about research which has to do with its collective and temporal character . |
| 24 | Possibly the West Saxon monarchy 's links with the new monasticism had something to do with its lack of popularity in northern Mercia and Northumbria . |
| 25 | It 's got a lot of history , partly to do with its railway background and ’ When I was a girl ’ was set in that world ; red brick , terraced housing and it 's really unique in that sense I think for a town in the south of England . |
| 26 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 27 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 28 | He suggested instead that perhaps one of the two white men to see her alive last may have had something to do with her death . |
| 29 | Mrs Thatcher 's transformation may have more to do with her political circumstances — i.e , isolation in a predominantly pro-European Cabinet — than with television . |
| 30 | Dot knew it was something to do with her father . |