Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth class was tackling a problem to do with the Muslim Inheritance laws . |
| 2 | But , you do n't need a machine to do that . |
| 3 | The peasant , for instance , who wishes to sell his avocados or pots in the local market may need a licence to do so , something that is outside the realm of the usual activities of a peasant , especially an illiterate . |
| 4 | Ace thought the Doctor sounded as if he were trying to coax a dog to do a trick . |
| 5 | As for me , the things I expect a computer to do have advanced somewhat . |
| 6 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 7 | Plus a backdrop of houses covering the valley walls on either side , a reminder that wherever industrialised societies decide to deal with their most intractable problems , they are unlikely to find a place to do so which is not in somebody 's back yard . |
| 8 | As we have said , this is a non-linguistic conceptual representation of what the speaker wants to convey in a sentence — the idea , in our example , that there was a boy , a girl and a flower , that the boy hit the girl , and that he used a flower to do it . |
| 9 | If one represents the sentence as , roughly speaking , HIT [ boy = agent , girl = acted-upon , flower = instrument ] then clearly this representation applies just as well to the active and to the passive sentences we have just given ( and to many other sentences too , such as ‘ The boy hit the girl , and he used a flower to do it ’ or ‘ There was boy , and he had a flower , and he hit the girl with it ’ ) . |
| 10 | Detective Inspector Frank Wilkinson of Skelmersdale CID said : ‘ We want to find this man before he has a chance to do the same thing again . |
| 11 | It has a plan to do just that . ’ |
| 12 | He has a man to do the finances , but he drives the tractors and so on . |
| 13 | This crisis has a lot to do with press hype . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That has a lot to do with my state of mind at the time . |
| 15 | Although I 'm sure that has a lot to do with the way I listen , Louis Armstrong being this all-time winner and happy guy . ’ |
| 16 | Immigration has a lot to do with this , but so do the social mores of a state that is still 60% Mormon . |
| 17 | In fact , money has a lot to do with it . |
| 18 | ‘ I think the timing has a lot to do with it . |
| 19 | I am sure too , that this safety-first instinct has a lot to do with the fact that big bream are rarely caught from small bays , those semi-circular enclosures which are so appealing to the angler 's eye , and such deadly traps for the use of a pack of predators . |
| 20 | Our temperament has a lot to do with the way we naturally handle conflicts . |
| 21 | As Bryan points out , this has a lot to do with the fact that he 's doing two jobs … |
| 22 | Understanding is not conveyed solely through clear diction but has a lot to do with the language used . |
| 23 | The boom in the production and consumption of porn has a lot to do with AIDS . |
| 24 | I should have realised that genius , as some bright spark in the office said , has a lot to do with genes . |
| 25 | ‘ I think being in England 's group has a lot to do with it . |
| 26 | Getting on in the art world has a lot to do with having the right contacts . ’ |
| 27 | She said yesterday : ‘ Healthy eating has a lot to do with living a good and honest life . |
| 28 | Specifically it suggests that something about how we respond , react to or construe the stressful situation has a lot to do with how stressed we feel , and how we feel stressed . |
| 29 | I think my commitment undoubtedly has a lot to do with the fact that we had to struggle and fight for everything we have . |
| 30 | So far we have had a tremendous response which has a lot to do with the product — it 's brilliant and people ca n't go wrong with it . ’ |