Example sentences of "[verb] to do [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They cause objects to seem to shift in position by only a small amount , which is what objects plausibly can be expected to do in the real world . |
| 2 | ( This undoubtedly has to do with the resultative nature of the passive . ) |
| 3 | The first has to do with the individual animal 's past history . |
| 4 | Metaphor is not just a matter of semantic features — it has to do with the above large-scale schemas . |
| 5 | A third reason has to do with the non-experimental character of most social research . |
| 6 | ‘ Still another difficulty has to do with the specific words the counsellor uses . |
| 7 | The desire for natural religion reflected an awareness that religious faith has to do with the inner life of human beings , that it connects up with profound needs , drives and searchings at the core of our existence . |
| 8 | It has to do with the perfect fusion of many things : the refinement and effortless muscularity of the six-cylinder and V8 engines ; the harmonious balance of the springing and damping ; the flawless construction ; the quality of interior appointments ; the strength of the body shell ; the grace of the body line . |
| 9 | There is another potential drawback ; it has to do with the fluent child 's love of ( or abuse of ) debate . |
| 10 | This principle in Hinduism is called ‘ Pancha Bhootas ’ and has to do with the five states of creative substances and their relationship to the five sensory faculties . |
| 11 | Part of the reason they do so is cultural and has to do with the elective affinity of their habituses with postmodern culture . |
| 12 | The second kind has to do with the conceptual coherence of the theory that the empirical investigation is designed to support . |
| 13 | The story of temperature measurement has to do with the experimental determination of the quantitative laws of expansion as well as a greater theoretical understanding of heat and thermo- dynamics . |
| 14 | It has to do with the pervasive corruption in public life , now at last being revealed in Milan , which favours large , one-off projects over mere maintenance because they allow more opportunities for douceurs . |
| 15 | One of the interesting questions that can be asked about the curriculum has to do with the relative power and influence of these various actors in the planning process ; for example , in their study , Boys et al . |
| 16 | The lack of priority given to teaching singing to ordinands is explained by one respondent who wrote , ‘ Part of the problem with the teaching of singing has to do with the relative infrequency with which the Sunday Offices are now sung … |
| 17 | Stress has to do with the relative prominence of one or more syllables in a word , phrase or sentence , in comparison to other surrounding syllables . |
| 18 | Another reason has to do with the relative imprecision with which those theories that , arguably , are more susceptible to direct testing are couched . |
| 19 | This has to do with the relational quality of deixis . |
| 20 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
| 21 | Agree what the patient has to do before the next session |
| 22 | The transmitted message contains details of all that the satellite has to do in the next period , in particular to implement the survey . |
| 23 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 24 | I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’ |
| 25 | While it makes much of the commitment to solving the Cyprus and Kashmir problems , presumably in deference to immigrant communities , it says rather less about what the Tory party plans to do about the greatest immediate challenge it will face , the level and duration of the commitment to the Iraqi Kurds . |
| 26 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 27 | ‘ If you do n't know what you 'd choose to do on the last day of your life , you do n't know what 's really important to you . |
| 28 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 29 | With general improvements in standards of living , expectations have risen , so that young people are no longer prepared to do without the basic utilities or to accept a limited range of shops and services ( Thomas 1972 ) . |
| 30 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |