Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to do [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In the Scottish tradition , following upon our Scottish theologian Dun Scottas although not representing him properly , it says that righteousness and moral items are just to do with the will of God .
2 What is there about the voice , vocal channels that 're not to do with the actual words spoken ?
3 Many of us will have had the experience at some time or other of finding ourselves in classrooms ostensibly to help individual children overcome their difficulties , but realising that in fact the problems are more to do with the way the lesson is being presented , with the resources and teaching strategies being used or with the demands being made , than with any specific problems our pupils may have .
4 Eva 's memories are more to do with the excitement of the journey .
5 Thus , cast in bronze , we have an Industrial Elephant , with a factory chimney , belching smoke , on its back , which would seem to be more to do with the advent of the Industrial Revolution than a comment on the British Raj .
6 It is fatally easy to ridic-ule these attempts to trade outside the market , but the first snags that people raise are n't to do with the mutual trust involved , but relate to the attitudes of the Inland Revenue ( which insists that payment in kind is taxable ) and of the Department of Social Security with its Minimum Earnings Rule .
7 Having just metaphorically done in front of the vicar , small children and grandparents what they are about to do in the bridal suite , they offer everyone a small , naughty slice .
8 His methods however were mostly to do with the syntax and vocabulary and sounds and had little to do with what the languages meant .
9 Her problems were more to do with the self confidence which had characterised her from such an early age .
10 Politics has very little to do with issues ; it is all to do with the personal vanities and ambitions of politicians .
11 Every bend reveals another staggering visual feast and it is all to do with the light , the dynamic mountain ridges , the pure white sandy beaches and the undisturbed peace .
12 It is all to do with the most effective means to ends , at least some of which must be given ( and thus are perhaps open to structural explanations of how the agent came to have them ) .
13 The difference between the colours is all to do with the distances between the humps and dips .
14 But there , the distance between the humps and dips is all to do with the pitch of the note-the note that we hear .
15 It 's all to do with the £19,250 tax bracket and engines below 2 litres .
16 ‘ It 's all to do with the breed , ’ he explains .
17 ‘ Well , it 's all to do with the ballistics , ’ said our sportsdesk .
18 It 's all to do with the way different people 's minds work .
19 Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through .
20 Bill said : ‘ It 's all to do with the American influence creeping into our pedigrees .
21 It 's all to do with the C.O. He wanted to court-martial me , only I heard them trying to find me so I hid in the latrines and I do n't know what happened in the end .
22 But first let us follow up the possibility that the problem is entirely to do with the estimate .
23 and er there 's enough to do at the front and the back .
24 So this is not to do with the price of eggs , it 's to do with erm eggs in one basket , and er obviously er the basic theory with any investment advice is do n't put all your eggs into one area er in one basket if you like .
25 Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on .
26 The programme is largely to do with the perceptual side of thinking .
27 It 's not to do with the
28 In this context we may distinguish ( i ) the impartiality which is part and parcel of making moral or legal-judgments on the basis of formulating universal rules permitting or prohibiting certain types of conduct as distinct from making decisions only about particular persons and particular occasions : the impartiality not just of universalisability but of rules which actually are to be universalised ; ( ii ) the impartiality of being a non-involved person which is particularly relevant to the position of the person who is applying legal or moral rules to particular circumstances and which is directly to do with the characteristics of the judge who according to this standard must have no personal interest in the outcome of the case , but which may also be relevant in the process of legislation since legislators may have particular and personal interests in the outcome of the legislation in question ; ( iii ) there is the idea of impartiality as a norm of moral and judicial reasoning which has to do with giving due consideration to all relevant factors , a practice which may further but is not guaranteed by impartiality of the first two types .
29 It 's partly to do with the rent review .
30 Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the success of the Government 's policy is also to do with the banning of secondary picketing , which the Labour party would bring back with open arms ?
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