Example sentences of "[indef pn] to do [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen 's reply was friendly — and totally negative , indicating clearly that personal feelings of friendship had nothing to do with affairs of state : |
| 2 | It 's nothing to do with laws of form . |
| 3 | The body of work arising from Eugene Garfield 's pioneering efforts in launching his Science Citation Index during the early 1960s has little or nothing to do with evaluation by paper scores ( or their logs ) . |
| 4 | Does it also present as natural and inevitable the fact that for many working people the concept of a ‘ weekend ’ is nothing to do with ideas of rest and leisure with family or friends ? |
| 5 | Surgeons in are being told to do less emergency operations because of the extra costs involved and in surgeons are ordered to give priority to patients who come from G P budget holders because there 's more money coming from those budget holders , nothing to do with basis of need . |
| 6 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |
| 7 | Something to do with control of terrorism I surmised , but rather a pointless exercise given the haphazard nature of public transport in Peru . |
| 8 | There 's the green Instructions for Prisoners book [ information book ] , but it has virtually no relevance to anything to do with life in prison . |