Example sentences of "it had [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to do with the success of the one-nation myth . |
| 2 | I kept wondering what it had to do with the cowboy we were going to see on the screen . |
| 3 | ‘ I could n't understand what it had to do with the law . |
| 4 | The second one , I just wanted to draw your attention to , was , it had to do with the home help service . |
| 5 | Georgiana Greenwood may have been partly to blame , but it had to do with the fact that we really were n't running the conference out of the college . |
| 6 | It had to do with the personalities of the individuals and the way they work with each other when they meet . |
| 7 | This has been a difficult chapter , but it had to go into the book . |
| 8 | I mean as I 'm , I do n't think they had any option with this I think because it 's a change of usage , considerable change of use then it had to go before the committee , erm but erm |
| 9 | The period continued in the 1950s with the operation of the planning system proving capable of responding to a range of local situations , before , in the 1960s , it had to cope with the pressures of a housing boom , commercial redevelopment , a feared city thrombosis through increase in traffic circulation , and renewed problems from regional disparities . |
| 10 | After the second world war it had to adjust to the loss of an empire . |
| 11 | The Communist Party of Great Britain , which was thus excluded from the Labour Party on its foundation was by far the most important Left minority in existence in the 1930s although it had to compete with the ILP for that position at least until 1935 . |
| 12 | The sum of 10s 0d per week for the new pension was , he admitted , inadequate but it had to correspond with the level of the non-contributory pension ; and such an amount would encourage individuals to take out private pensions . |
| 13 | ‘ Gravity knew how much harder it had to pull on the keys — to make them hit the ground at the same time as the paper . |
| 14 | Mr Browne had a gerbil in a cage in the classroom , but we were n't allowed to take it to the dorms — it had to stay in the classroom . |
| 15 | Foreign investment was more or less prohibited ( it had to contribute to the development of the domestic industry ) . |
| 16 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |
| 17 | A building society challenged the validity of transitional provisions in the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 by which it had to pay to the revenue on specified quarterly dates the tax in respect of dividends and interest it had paid to its members . |