Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean someone to take in the ironing ? |
| 3 | She found nothing to say about the yearlings and shrank quite sensibly from their forward advances , staying silent and watchful while Nicandra talked and lifted solemn grey eyes to Andrew 's , sure of his entire attention . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , even in Minnie , who 's so unlikely that she 's probably true — there probably has been someone who grew up as she did , saloon-wise and card-sharping yet quite sure that she wants nothing to do with the kind of messing around she 's seen under her parents ’ roof . |
| 5 | It is a shame , however , that they want nothing to do with the RUC . |
| 6 | " My little boy has nothing to wear for the cold weather . " |
| 7 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 8 | Gregory has nothing to say about the Thuringians in Clovis 's reign . |
| 9 | The specialist architectural press ignores this amorphous school of design , while even the Prince of Wales has nothing to say on the subject , reserving his spleen for imaginative buildings that he and so many of his future subjects profess to hate . |
| 10 | I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’ |
| 11 | The agent takes 15 per cent of the band 's earnings which has nothing to do with the band 's costs . |
| 12 | The difference has nothing to do with the presence or absence of powerchords . |
| 13 | Yet I think there is a difference between the control of living systems and the stability of physical ones , which has nothing to do with the presence or absence of a controlling intelligence . |
| 14 | The Social Charter , for instance , has nothing to do with the single market . |
| 15 | Yet on any interpretation , the ‘ peoples of Europe ’ can never be restricted to the peoples of the European Community , and therefore the ‘ ever closer union ’ has nothing to do with the EC itself . |
| 16 | The second part of the mind is the parent — this has nothing to do with the child 's actual parents rather , it is to do with all the rules and prejudices that a child absorbs from its parents . |
| 17 | Parents may jump to the conclusion that the fact of being adopted is the root of the trouble when that has nothing to do with the case . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , a doctor or psychologist may sometimes reinforce parents ' concern by remarking , ‘ Well , of course , he 's adopted , ’ when this has nothing to do with the matter in question . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This has nothing to do with the chemicals all being derived from oil and coal ( see p 166 ) as is often suggested . |
| 21 | This figure of £1 has nothing to do with the market value of the share , but is the legal benchmark for the determination of individual liability . |
| 22 | One thing that I always wanted not to happen to me was to become like a TV cameraman who goes home to watch TV and says , ‘ Aw , look at that lighting , ’ or something trivial that really has nothing to do with the actual story . |
| 23 | This , of course , has nothing to do with the featherlight pop of the Brighton trio . |
| 24 | See , in America they 're being touted as ( cough , splutter ) ‘ The New Smiths ’ , which presumably has nothing to do with The New Seekers and a lot to do with , ‘ Hey , these guys are grreaat ! ’ |
| 25 | It has nothing to do with the physical addiction . |
| 26 | But how strongly one feels has nothing to do with the argument . |
| 27 | It was Gill 's opinion , not shared by everybody , that ‘ the distinction has nothing to do with the use of machinery or with questions of the artistic quality of the product ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ The old religion , Vi , has been with us as long as time and has nothing to do with the Church of Rome . |
| 29 | The quotation has nothing to do with the coming of the Messiah but refers to the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel by Assyria in 721 BC . |
| 30 | To say that the death of the pigs did not take place on the same occasion at all and has nothing to do with the miracle . |