Example sentences of "[det] do [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd just had some done for our engagement . |
| 2 | ‘ And what the hell will this do to my tournament ? ’ |
| 3 | Some of the reasons are religious ; some literary ; some to do with his well-merited reputation as a blunt-talking character who , like Samuel Johnson , drew the wisdom of his conversation and letters from ancient sources , Christian or pagan , as much as modern — a wisdom somehow as congenial to the sceptical as to the godly . |
| 4 | What had any of this to do with her husband 's death or affair , she asked herself ? |
| 5 | Is this to do with our inability as a nation to be direct when there is something unpalatable to say ? |
| 6 | What has this to do with our central theme of locality ? |
| 7 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 8 | The damage this does to our Christian life is incalculable . |
| 9 | In the 1460s , that was an outrage to accepted norms , and it had much to do with their downfall two years later . |
| 10 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 11 | That the attack was an unmitigated tactical disaster for the American military no doubt had much to do with its omission in post-war tales . |
| 12 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 13 | Er , I 've got too much to do with my lodgers . |
| 14 | But he said : ‘ Football is as much to do with your mental attitude as it is to anything else ours just is n't right at the moment . |
| 15 | Is that very much to do with your sort of research you do ? |
| 16 | Most US media-watchers agree that Hall 's exposure in that film had much to do with his landing a primetime podium of his own . |
| 17 | This has n't got to much to do with his gangling , freakishly elongated frame , which he 's used to evolve a unique form of comedic body language , flapping around on stage as he does like a dislocated stick insect , the missing link between Jerry Lewis and Pee Wee Herman . |
| 18 | Hopper 's direction of Easy Rider had much to do with his own appreciation of historical art and his painting skills . |
| 19 | I think the toughening and , if you like , the coarsening of his nature had much to do with his own insecurities , his fears , his shyness and his realization that he was somewhat out of place among the more gung-ho and simple-minded types who make up the bulk of racing drivers . |
| 20 | But the conflicts he generates have much to do with his job dissatisfaction . |
| 21 | His own feeling of staleness as an editor had much to do with his disenchantment at the kind of culture with which he now had to deal . |
| 22 | He knew that what he was feeling did n't have much to do with his brush with death . |
| 23 | There are moral pressures that can be , er er , applied , because nothing much to do with our sort of morality . |
| 24 | However , the overwhelming majority of those inhabitants of the subcontinent who adhered to Islam had no sense of identification with the dynasty ( even when they knew it existed ) and the fact that the dynasty was Muslim had little to do with its exercise of power . |
| 25 | After all , as Adebayo points out , the reality for too many black people is that positive images have precious little to do with their lives . |
| 26 | Cornwell reports that the men in her study have very little to do with their own families and even less with their wife 's kin . |
| 27 | The difficulties that public sector graduates have in getting into the senior positions in the professions have little to do with their academic accomplishments and much to do with the cultural stratification in society of which academic institutions are a part . |
| 28 | Most film crews want as little to do with their subjects as possible , yet the Ashleys immediately-became involved in our lives and we in theirs . |
| 29 | Western society places the highest value on the most abstract , thus creating an elitism which means many people feel alienated from mathematics , and , apart from small groups , feel it has little to do with their lives . |
| 30 | It has very little to do with her life , and they would be bizarre parents or catechetists who really wanted the girls in their charge to emulate Rose of Lima in any very direct way . |