Example sentences of "[adj] do [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accident reports from the first decade indicate that some did on the Great Northern Coalfield , but hardly any did so by 1780 . |
| 2 | Will they become backwaters undertaking work which is qualitatively different from that done in the larger centres ? |
| 3 | What would that do for the living conditions of the poor ? |
| 4 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 5 | His reasons had much to do with the continuous hounding by London journalists . |
| 6 | In fact , unknown to the convention , the pressure they exerted had much to do with the Colonial Secretary Glenelg writing to the colonial governments , even before the Strickland motion , to encourage local decisions to dispense with apprenticeship ; the system came to an end in the summer of 1838 . |
| 7 | Although , as we shall see , citizenship has much to do with the individual rights of citizens , the concept lacks the implication of liberal individualism often associated with ‘ human rights ’ and found objectionable by many on the political left . |
| 8 | She had too much to do with the new house and the new baby , you said . ’ |
| 9 | This , as will be seen , can be achieved through methods that have very little to do with the linguistic notion of semantics but much to do with the empirical processing of text-based knowledge sources . |
| 10 | Alter all is said and done , it might be that the cessation of activity was as much to do with the enervated economic clime as anything else . |
| 11 | Origins are certainly often interesting , but they do not necessarily have much to do with the present functioning and meaning of things . |
| 12 | There was so much to do with the six pools , giant flumes , waterfalls , fountains and lots more . |
| 13 | Admittedly , the definition of the student role that emerged in that conception of higher education had much to do with the idealist epistemology in which von Humboldt and the other founders of the modern German university were themselves scholars and contributors . |
| 14 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 15 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 16 | Indeed , I recall my impression at the time was of having stepped into a prison cell , but then this might have had as much to do with the pale early light as with the size of the room or the bareness of its walls . |
| 17 | That 's a complicated story I ca n't really go into at the moment , but was very much to do with the Royal Policies of the 1630s . |
| 18 | This is partly because of the increasing importance of employment in the service sector , much of it geared to regional and local markets and client groups , but it also has much to do with the particular circumstances of the 1980s . |
| 19 | He had reportedly turned down an offer from Kaunda of the post of labour minister and a position on the central committee of UNIP — a decision which was said to have had much to do with the MMD's decision in April to choose him as its presidential candidate [ see p. 38133 ] . |
| 20 | This has as much to do with the aural texture of guitar-based rock as with funk or soul , and their records often fail to gain airplay on rap specialist radio shows . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Joseph Fernandez , the local CIA man , tried not to have too much to do with the local airstrip/farm , once he had helped start it ; but the cover was sometimes blown in definitive fashion . |
| 23 | AMNESTY International has much to do in the '90s to maintain its role as the world 's leading human rights movement , Peter Benenson , the organisation 's founder , told the annual Amnesty International Youth Conference last year . |
| 24 | ‘ There will be so much to do in the new salon . |
| 25 | There was much to do in the next few days . |
| 26 | All reviewers have to try to stand outside the immediate context of their listening , but that can be hard to do at the same time as keeping all emotional wavelengths open . |
| 27 | which I have n't yet got on to cos I wanted to hear most , at least most of the arguments on this aspect of the case , although it 's got very in effect very little to do with the other , other , but it does n't see round , er I could get on with that to a degree , er , so I do n't mind too much , but I think Friday is , is asking to much from Mr |
| 28 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 29 | Seaman comments that that presentation Another and concordant view is recorded by Lichtheim : Lichtheim goes on to quote Pease , then Secretary of the Fabian Society , as saying : ‘ We were thus in a position to welcome the formation of working class Socialist societies , but it is certain that they would never have welcomed us ’ ; and to add , perhaps unkindly : ‘ Beatrice Potter — a rich , spoiled , arrogant young woman with more beauty than brains — was determined to have as little as possible to do with the working class . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , as the blood groups have little to do with the poor matches of HLA , I see no reason to tell Alan anything . |