Example sentences of "[verb] something do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 2 | That has something to do with the indefinable thing called talent . |
| 3 | But it is charitable to assume that it has something to do with the kind of critic that Pound is . |
| 4 | Possibly it has something to do with the peculiar mixture of moral sensibility and religious revival which marked English society from the mid-18th century onwards . |
| 5 | That has something to do with the stress of constant innovation , and rather more with the fact that they and their work have been systematically devalued by a government determined to bring schools under political control . |
| 6 | Usually it has something to do with the needs created by sharing : sharing the task of killing a large prey , sharing the task of defending the group against predators , sharing body heat to keep warm at night ; sharing out different duties that can be performed at the same time ; sharing the food that has been obtained by special members of the group ; and so on . |
| 7 | Perhaps what I 'm about to say has something to do with the answer to that question , so I 'll come to the point as briefly as possible . |
| 8 | Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that we are in the middle of the media silly-season , a time when papers and TV news bulletins are full of doom-laden Christmas tales . |
| 9 | Maybe it has something to do with the curious outlook he had on life . |
| 10 | And perhaps that has something to do with the very nature of an ex-patriate community . |
| 11 | One view is that it has something to do with the energy , drive and willingness to take risks associated ( in the ‘ up ’ phase , at least ) with traits underlying manic-depression . |
| 12 | As you can see , though each of these poems ‘ simply ’ describes a moment that has something to do with the natural world , other thoughts and messages come through at the same time . |
| 13 | It may be that the disjunction , for most modern English speakers , between abstract terms and concrete imagery has something to do with the complex foreign origins of the English language . |
| 14 | I suppose it has something to do with the feeling that what came out of America tended to operate at either of two levels . |
| 15 | After watching the eye movements of subjects during REM sleep , and then obtaining reports from them of intense visual imagery , it seems only natural to assume that one has something to do with the other . |
| 16 | It has something to do with the extent of a pupil 's knowledge ; for example , anyone giving 50 feet as the height of a door can not know very much about the size of a foot . |
| 17 | It has something to do with the distinction between service industries and service occupations . |
| 18 | Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that Lawrie Brown , the England physio , was once the Manchester United physio . |
| 19 | The naive observer might be forgiven for believing that this contrast has something to do with the different weight given by members of the academic community to their research interests compared with their ‘ teaching interests ’ ( the very awkwardness of the term makes the point ) . |
| 20 | This probably has something to do with the precise alignment of the track under the read heads . |
| 21 | This generally has something to do with the actual failure , but it is possible that the fault is not accurately reflected in this message , so do n't assume that the problem is pin-pointed precisely every time by these messages . |
| 22 | It spent more than its SSA , but perhaps that has something to do with the marginally left-wing nature of the fire services union in our area . |
| 23 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 24 | It 's not easy to predict why shame should operate one way or , or another and although it has something to do with the superego , you ca n't just say well the superego is er purely the result of erm of , of socialization , if you have strict parents you have a strict superego , it 's not that simple . |
| 25 | Now we in the Harrogate Civic Society would like to see the rest of the district allocation reduced at least to fifty hectares which has something to do with the forecast requirement on the grounds of past take-up , and I believe it is nearer the original figure for the rest of the district floated by the county in the initial consultations before amendment was made to the allocation between Greater York and the rest of the district . |
| 26 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 27 | It 's thought that the weather has something to do with the renewed joyriding . |
| 28 | It 's thought that the weather has something to do with the renewed joyriding . |
| 29 | Mrs Elizabeth Crabb , chairman of the Tees Valley branch , asked Mr Colley : ‘ Whether excessive lead in the water has something to do with the violence which is rife in our cities ? ’ |
| 30 | And I believe that the growing trend erm of people going to the cinema , erm cinema owners reconverting cinemas they 've cut into three back into the large auditoria , erm will continue and a night out at the cinema has something to do with the the building you 're in , erm this building if refurbished would have a restaurant , would have a bar , would have a cinema club , would be a real asset to the town . |