Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision has nothing to do with the merits of the case which Her Majesty 's Government will defend in due course . |
| 2 | To reflect society can only mean comedy , in such a world , if a work is to convince as any sort of mirror , and the preference of other nations for melodrama and the bleeding heart has nothing to do with the habitual temper of British life . |
| 3 | The naive observer might be forgiven for believing that this contrast has something to do with the different weight given by members of the academic community to their research interests compared with their ‘ teaching interests ’ ( the very awkwardness of the term makes the point ) . |
| 4 | And I believe that the growing trend erm of people going to the cinema , erm cinema owners reconverting cinemas they 've cut into three back into the large auditoria , erm will continue and a night out at the cinema has something to do with the the building you 're in , erm this building if refurbished would have a restaurant , would have a bar , would have a cinema club , would be a real asset to the town . |
| 5 | Gregory has nothing to say about the Thuringians in Clovis 's reign . |
| 6 | This figure of £1 has nothing to do with the market value of the share , but is the legal benchmark for the determination of individual liability . |
| 7 | But what aroused resentment from people in the film industry had nothing to do with the merits of these films , which critic Raymond Durgnat reasonably characterized as ‘ sub-Ealing comedies so timid as to be positively ingratiating , ’ nor the production programme 's lack of profitability . |
| 8 | Dorothy Sayers , discussing the literary tastes of one of her characters , the Russian exile Paul Alexis , said of the Ruritanian type of story that ‘ the greater European powers of the League of Nations had nothing to do with the matter ’ : |
| 9 | Mr Gleeson said it would be unfair to suggest the cash injection had something to do with the forthcoming General Election . |
| 10 | In the face of slave rebelliousness abolitionists denied that their support of gradual emancipation had anything to do with the Demerara revolt or that ‘ rash philanthropy ’ had produced slave disorder on earlier occasions in Guadeloupe , St Domingue or Barbados . |
| 11 | This suggests that tantrums have something to do with the normal development of a child 's personality , rather than with the way they have been brought up — although the way they are handled can make things worse . |
| 12 | Mr David Irving and other historians who question the scale of crime and the methods have nothing to do with the British National Party . |
| 13 | The KGB Collegium issued a statement on Aug. 22 : " The staff of the KGB have nothing to do with the unlawful acts of the group of adventurists . " |
| 14 | " My little boy has nothing to wear for the cold weather . " |
| 15 | The council said it would cost £10 to send somebody to look at the wall and then I 'd have to pay to have it repaired . |
| 16 | The first important modern paintings sale of the year held by Guy Loudmer on 16 February contained nothing to compare with the outstanding works featured in his sales during the height of the speculative boom two or three years ago . |
| 17 | I earnestly hope that Erdinger Weissbräu does nothing to interfere with the Stiftungs products , by either culling the wheat beers or ‘ cleaning up ’ their palates . |
| 18 | I do not want to suggest that Stalin had nothing to do with the origins of the cold war . |
| 19 | Now do you think that the campaign th the th , the campaigns against the use in cosmetic testing had anything to do with the changes that were brought in , or do you think advances and responsible er science would have , would have made those changes anyway ? |
| 20 | Former Quins centre Ron Eriksson had plenty to celebrate with the only try in London Scottish 's 8-3 win over a rebuilt Gloucester side . |
| 21 | He tells me the ruins have nothing to do with the Incas , that they were built after the Incas were here . |
| 22 | The Philistines have nothing to do with the Arabs , a Semitic people , who invaded the Holy Land from Arabia in the seventh century . |
| 23 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 24 | ‘ The entire concept of artistic licence and innovation , on which we put such a high premium these days has nothing to do with the way much early Northern painting was created . |
| 25 | The difference has nothing to do with the presence or absence of powerchords . |
| 26 | The community charge or poll tax has nothing to do with the arrangements for financing local government . |
| 27 | It was Gill 's opinion , not shared by everybody , that ‘ the distinction has nothing to do with the use of machinery or with questions of the artistic quality of the product ’ . |
| 28 | The quotation has nothing to do with the coming of the Messiah but refers to the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel by Assyria in 721 BC . |
| 29 | Certainly , if the product has anything to do with the home environment it would be sensible to think about sending the gift to the home address of the journalist concerned . |
| 30 | While Babcock Thorn yesterday emphasised its jobs announcement had nothing to do with the Trident issue , the losses will clearly increase the pressure on ministers to award it the nuclear submarine work . |