Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method of locating those with power , the ‘ reputational method ’ , was presumed to allow one to see behind the democratic facade of the formally democratic institutions of American government and locate those who really held political power . |
| 2 | We would couple this with an investigation to discover the real cause or causes of the high labour turnover ( which may turn out to have nothing to do with the immediate problem ) . |
| 3 | It 's not my business , but I strongly advise you to have nothing to do with the whole thing ; divorce can be very messy . ’ |
| 4 | But now , buoyed by the prospect of a landslide victory in March , they no longer want to have anything to do with the disreputable Mr Le Pen . |
| 5 | And then , when that clearly had n't worked , Laura had found herself lapsing into a sullen , resentful attitude , defiantly refusing to have anything to do with the beastly old woman . |
| 6 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 7 | Ever since the days when Ramsey was a boy at Repton , the Pope refused to have anything to do with the ecumenical movement . |