Example sentences of "have [indef pn] do [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But I knew that the sounds I had heard could have nothing to do with a servant 's dream .
2 The words quoted from the will have nothing to do with a trust , according to Scaevola .
3 Does the difference really have nothing to do with the construction of a dominant identity for males and a subordinate one for females ?
4 This is the more important part of the capital/income confusion in public sector organizations : agreement on the irrelevance of income as a performance measure can often be readily obtained because service provision may have nothing to do with the profit motive ; on the other hand , all organizations have capital of some sort .
5 If the LEA were to lay down as a condition of grant that we should have nothing to do with the University body , we should refuse the grant , and I do not see why Universities should not show the same loyalty to us .
6 ‘ I would have nothing to do with the Prince or his catamite ! ’
7 More prosperous hamlets would have nothing to do with the inhabitants and , but for the Community 's care , many would have starved or died prematurely .
8 The Marshal roared into the distance for Lorenzini and then said : ‘ It looks as if this might have nothing to do with the kidnapping . ’
9 Thus , the occurrence of a quasiregular singularity in region IV can have nothing to do with the relaxation of the continuity conditions across the boundaries .
10 ‘ But whatever it is , it can have nothing to do with the death of the Pitts . ’
11 The reasons why your results look better or worse than another company 's may have nothing to do with the quality of your performance .
12 It will have nothing to do with the lecture but simply to impress those that my vocabulary is very wide .
13 " I tell you I 'll have nothing to do with the place , " said Fiver .
14 Harriet sensing , quite rightly , that this must have something to do with a man , failed to receive any response to the most careful attempts to discover what was wrong .
15 ‘ Boggers ’ ( no , I do n't know why , though I suspect it may have something to do with a haircut that bears a passing resemblance to a bogbrush ) may have a couple of incisive seasons left in him at best , but opponents will rarely get a moment 's peace when he combines with Bicknell and Waqar Younis next year .
16 Maybe it does have something to do with the juxtaposition of the planets .
17 There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children .
18 There is so much opportunity for children to look at the nature of the physical world around them which is n't taken advantage of , and which could be , and I think that may have something to do with the attitude of teachers as much as the attitude of children .
19 We see here a move away from the view that deviance is simply what people so label , to the notion that it might also have something to do with the acts that ‘ deviants ’ engage in .
20 Does this have something to do with the transfer of work on Trident warheads from Aldermaston , which is not big enough ?
21 If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time .
22 Somebody was trying to freak me out , and , from what I could gather , it might well have something to do with the Quigleys , with Veronica and this Mrs Danby .
23 It must have something to do with the way the language heaps noun upon noun .
24 It is not for me to help Scottish Tories in those circumstances , but I suggest to them that it may have something to do with the way in which the Government treat Scotland in legislative terms .
25 Its popularity in Mediterranean food may have something to do with the reputation of the Latin Lover .
26 ‘ It must have something to do with the attack on Anna .
27 All this may have something to do with the conference 's unpublicised preliminary meeting which was held in London at the beginning of October .
28 The sensitivity of employment law issues may perhaps be gauged by the frequency with which employment cases go to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords , though this may also have something to do with the looseness of the statutory language used in the legislation .
29 But there is a little something I can detect in the atmosphere between those two that might or might not have something to do with the murder of Egan by Place . ’
30 OK , I suspect that Ms O'Connor 's motive for using the photo might have something to do with the sales of her last two singles .
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