Example sentences of "[verb] to do [adv] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 2 | They would dearly like to do away with the garage , and I think the landlady said she would just like to mention that , as their comment on the application . |
| 3 | Can I just say at this point that erm John will happ had a word with the landlady and the landlord of the Reindeer , with regards to this application , and what the landlady told John was that she and her husband would dearly like to do away with the breeze block garage that is there , that is totally out of character , and extend the car park way back to the garages , but the brewery are insisting that they do what is planned here and do away with some of the |
| 4 | But they would greatly prefer to do so with the benefit of seeing the actual documents . |
| 5 | The second , having to do only with the reproduction of the page in Unver 's book , is that it is necessarily small-scale , so that a number of the including several of the potentially most interesting ones , have proved to be unreadable . |
| 6 | One also supplied a report entitled ‘ Pan Am Flight 103 ’ , prepared in January 1989 by the intelligence unit of the Lebanese Forces , which had to do mainly with the substance of intercepted telephone calls to and from the Iranian Embassy in Beirut . |
| 7 | On the contrary , there was attempts to the life of our Emir during the Iraq/Iran war because we were taking relatively trying to be neutral there , and there was a bomb attack on him , and he personally survived it , a few others died , and it had to do directly with the Iran/Iraq war . |