Example sentences of "to do [prep] the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart Bray , Chairman of the Standard 4 Locomotive Group stated that there was still a number of small jobs to do during the winter including completion of the lining locomotive . |
| 2 | It is what Mr Kinnock is prepared to do as the price for power . |
| 3 | There 's so much to do about the roots of music that this series has n't even scratched the surface . |
| 4 | We saw a Civil Defence exercise in Tyne and Wear where local government officials , obviously not in peak condition , rushed about and contemplated what they were going to do about the rain of megatonne weapons that was being dumped on their ratepayers . |
| 5 | Yet if we assume , as we are perfectly entitled to do for the sake of argument , that life has originated only once in the universe , it follows that we are allowed to postulate a very large amount of luck in a theory , because there are so many planets in the universe where life could have originated . |
| 6 | The links predated the Francoist regime ; the army had long been responsible for the training of footplate , traffic and other staff who entered RENFE through military service ( as they continued to do after the restoration of democracy ) . |
| 7 | The second conclusion which follows from this evolutionary view has to do with the concept of justice . |
| 8 | But it is charitable to assume that it has something to do with the kind of critic that Pound is . |
| 9 | A second aspect has to do with the degree of expectedness or unexpectedness of a choice . |
| 10 | This aspect has a bearing on two further components , social cohesion , which has to do with the sense of community and national identity , and what Heater has called civic virtue . |
| 11 | ( Witness the number of ‘ comparability ’ pay claims which have little to do with the tightness of labour markets . ) |
| 12 | They included , roughly speaking , the earth 's London face being away from the sun for a time , the absence of any light source like that of the sun , in the right place at the right time , and conditions having to do with the behaviour of light . |
| 13 | The reason has to do with the change of direction and increasing the swing-weight . |
| 14 | It was probably something to do with the change of Government . |
| 15 | No doubt Clarendon 's less domineering nature , compared to that of Palmerston , had much to do with the change of status , particularly when coupled with his appointment of Edmund Hammond ( 1802–90 ) in April 1854 to replace the ‘ courteous , conservative ’ Henry Unwin Addington as Permanent Under Secretary of State . |
| 16 | Diligence at work then may have more to do with the consequences of non-cooperation than it does with internalizing the primacy of company interest . |
| 17 | The extent to which these approaches are complementary has to do with the relationship between competence and performance and is a matter of current debate . |
| 18 | The answer can be divided into three parts , the first two of which have to do with the relationship between evolution and embryonic development . |
| 19 | But it is very unfriendly in a way which erm has to do with the type of interaction you 've got to have . |
| 20 | The latter criteria obviously has a lot to do with the type of printer that you choose , but several notation programs give a printout that leaves much to be desired — even when the printer is a top of the range laser . |
| 21 | In fact the erm er the , the actual agenda was far more to do with the price of oil than it was to do with er who ruled Kuwait . |
| 22 | Bats may even use the sensations that we call colour for their own purposes , to represent differences in the world out there that have nothing to do with the physics of wavelength , but which play a functional role , for the bat , similar to the role that colours play to us . |
| 23 | Perhaps chemical-sensitive patients are affected by pine resins — which contain a lot of natural toxins to protect the tree — but it has nothing to do with the origins of coal and oil . |
| 24 | The reasons essentially have to do with the relevance of IQ to creativity and are exposed when we compare both the similarities and the differences between Cox 's historical figures and Terman 's gifted children . |
| 25 | The reason she said I was anorexic was to do with the proportion of body fat I had lost . |
| 26 | It was an exchange of literary gossip , having to do with the finances of writing , and the ‘ ghosting ’ of the Marlborough memoirs , and would have meant nothing to the dancing , chattering folk in Raasay House . |
| 27 | He had nothing whatever to do with the faculty of divinity . |
| 28 | Piers was nowhere to be seen , and without his presence in the kitchen she thought carefully about what she was going to do with the bits of chicken and the assortment of vegetables . |
| 29 | Clearly a number of factors that have to do with the history of English ( chiefly the reported merger of meat/mate in the sixteenth century ) , with patterns of language maintenance , and with phonological theory and description , have also motivated the choice of this variable , and we shall return to these in chapter 5 . |
| 30 | The second reason is a nagging doubt that perhaps we are researching fictions of our own making ; that is , we are producing theories about experimental subjects in laboratory situations which have nothing to do with the individual in society . |