Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Parents may jump to the conclusion that the fact of being adopted is the root of the trouble when that has nothing to do with the case .
2 That has nothing to do with the matter under debate .
3 ‘ Whether he does , or whether he does n't — I can assure you that that has nothing to do with the quality of my work ! ’ she hissed , barely able to remember a time when she had felt quite so angry .
4 That has something to do with the indefinable thing called talent .
5 That has something to do with the stress of constant innovation , and rather more with the fact that they and their work have been systematically devalued by a government determined to bring schools under political control .
6 And perhaps that has something to do with the very nature of an ex-patriate community .
7 It spent more than its SSA , but perhaps that has something to do with the marginally left-wing nature of the fire services union in our area .
8 I do not believe that that has anything to do with the Government .
9 This encourages them to listen to the responses and to each other .
10 Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that Lawrie Brown , the England physio , was once the Manchester United physio .
11 The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only .
12 The second part of the mind is the parent — this has nothing to do with the child 's actual parents rather , it is to do with all the rules and prejudices that a child absorbs from its parents .
13 Unfortunately , a doctor or psychologist may sometimes reinforce parents ' concern by remarking , ‘ Well , of course , he 's adopted , ’ when this has nothing to do with the matter in question .
14 This has nothing to do with the chemicals all being derived from oil and coal ( see p 166 ) as is often suggested .
15 I went along to the surgery of Rother Valley MP Peter Hardy , who was resident in one of the safest Labour seats in the country , and despite all that had gone before he was able to say , ‘ This has nothing to do with the people around here — it all happens in London ’ .
16 The great , I mean , you 've a valid point and I think it 's due to the recession in America , I think we were disappointed were we not Bruce , that the results of our trip to er , New York State , and this has nothing to do with the enthusiasm of the business people we met there , everything to do , in my view , with the fact that the recession , and America 's been through a very tough recession , they just do n't look to expand elsewhere , but the reaction we had in , in er , in America was very , very powerful of , of a wish to want to do something when things look better .
17 He caught her wrist , bit out raggedly , ‘ This has nothing to do with the company !
18 But this has nothing to do with the use of ministerial sanctions ; it largely reflects the use of RENFE ( as of other state enterprises ) by aspiring politicians as a springboard to ministerial or other high office .
19 None of this has anything to do with the Third Reading debate .
20 Another says I smell of the sea , like oysters , fresh and salty . ’
21 This lets you kick into the snow and get a grip unlike summer boots or bendy-sole boots . ’
22 This lets you get at the information without having to understand anything about databases and without having to wade through reams of data .
23 Supplying engines to projects like this lets us compete with the supercars and avoid all the complicated polemics they create , ’ said Reitzle .
24 This gives you access to the main centre 's restaurant , bar , squash courts , snooker rooms , gym , sauna and solarium .
25 This enables him to preside over the process which I have described with the minimum of overt interference , the constriction of the budgetary limits performing much the same role as the balance of supply and demand in a market system .
26 This enables you to comment on the content of what they 're doing .
27 This enables us to think about the RNLI ten , twenty , and thirty years into the future .
28 This bids them to look at the common law ( i.e. the legal position ) before the Act , and the mischief that the statute was intended to remedy ; the Act is then to be construed in such a way as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy .
29 One makes the recipient ant generally ‘ alarmed ’ , another makes it run towards the source , and two others make it bite .
30 This makes them look like the controlling force , the spider in the middle of the web .
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