Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Mr David Irving and other historians who question the scale of crime and the methods have nothing to do with the British National Party .
3 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 . "
4 He tells me the ruins have nothing to do with the Incas , that they were built after the Incas were here .
5 The Philistines have nothing to do with the Arabs , a Semitic people , who invaded the Holy Land from Arabia in the seventh century .
6 But these abuses and reforms have nothing to do with the order made by Buckley J. in the present proceedings .
7 Behaviour therapy , Gestalt therapy , Art Therapy , Music Therapy , Transactional Analysis , Psychotherapy , Psychosynthesis , Psycho Drama and any number of other techniques may help some people who have problems with the process of moving rationally from thoughts to feelings and on to actions , even though these techniques have nothing to offer to the specific recovery process from addictive disease itself .
8 ‘ But I can tell you this , Ranulf , even though I have n't a shred of evidence , I believe the deaths of those two young people have something to do with the murder of Lady Eleanor Belmont . ’
9 I take it , it will mostly be building new prisons , but they will take some time , especially if the Ministry of Works have anything to do with the plans .
10 environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development .
11 They show that those tests have nothing to do with the amount spent per pupil in individual authority areas — some of the biggest spenders were right down at the bottom .
12 ‘ Would this request from London have anything to do with the package and report I sent them , which never arrived because it was intercepted right here in this office ? ’
13 My reasons have something to do with the costs and value .
14 ‘ The Death of the Lion ’ , ‘ The private Life ’ and ‘ The Birthplace ’ all illustrate that the creation and reading of literature have nothing to do with the author as a real person , and that literature exists quite independently of the author 's particular circumstances and personality .
15 He said : How can a mathematical trick like imaginary time have anything to do with the real universe ?
16 How can imaginary time have anything to do with the real universe ?
17 It is arguable that the theoretical trappings of semiology have nothing to do with the interpretations of striptease and wrestling .
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