Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each unit is ranked according to profitability and profit growth , which helps spur competition between IDG managers and — with any luck — encourages them to learn from each other . |
| 2 | Neither council wants me to deal with this as a late objection . |
| 3 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton ; If the Hon. Gentleman wants me to go into more detail , I shall do so . |
| 4 | Keegan responded : ‘ It sounds like he wants me to stay for 10 years . |
| 5 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
| 6 | Is my right hon. Friend at all surprised that the local health authority wants nothing to do with that document because it is pure Labour party propaganda and a cynical manipulation of the elderly and the frail ? |
| 7 | So what is their mental state , that causes them to behave in this very unfeline-like way ? |
| 8 | She wants them to extend to eight feet , well these do n't extend to eight feet , they extend to seven . |
| 9 | The Pareto criterion has nothing to say about such a change . |
| 10 | By talking about those three areas , the right hon. Gentleman clearly underlines the fact that the Labour party has nothing to say about economic and monetary union . |
| 11 | In the meantime she has nothing to say to any of you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The Commission has nothing to say on this subject ; it is something which will have first to be discussed by the member states of the Community in political co-operation , ’ a Commission spokesman said yesterday . |
| 13 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 14 | This moment of pausing before acting has nothing to do with freezing or suppression . |
| 15 | Given that , whatever the justification for giving him such power may be , it has nothing to do with encouraging blackmail , such action frustrates the purpose of validating the consent and is to be discouraged because of its undesirable consequences . |
| 16 | Philosophy has an incorrigible bias towards thinking of knowledge in terms of the verbally formulable , the proposition , the logical grounding of which has nothing to do with such psychological questions as whether the knower is being acted on causally by things which the proposition is about . |
| 17 | To think of any of one 's conscious episodes in the moment after it has happened , is to think of a certain duality , one which has nothing to do with dualistic doctrines of mind and body . |
| 18 | This is achieved , not by drugs , but by a " minor muscle relaxant " which has nothing to do with one glass of iced champagne . |
| 19 | The reason why I continue to believe that Heseltine 's best chance of getting the Tory leadership lies in the aftermath of an election defeat has nothing to do with inside knowledge . |
| 20 | A majority of economists would , therefore , argue that the present high level of unemployment has nothing to do with new technology . |
| 21 | It has nothing to do with that at all . ’ |
| 22 | Functionality has nothing to do with that ; all that different kinds of functionality do is affect the forms which relative autonomy takes . |
| 23 | It has nothing to do with that man , nothing ! |
| 24 | Dr Umberto Saffiotti , an experimental pathologist at the National Cancer Institute at the time , said that type of no-effect level toxicology posed was ‘ developed during the Stone Age of toxicology ’ , and has nothing to do with self-replicating effects of carcinogens . |
| 25 | [ T ] his government 's challenge to freedom has nothing to do with totalitarian despotism . |
| 26 | In fact it has nothing to do with political affiliations at all , since admiration and support for Rigoberta Menchu has come from all sides . |
| 27 | Good poetry has nothing to do with political correctness . |
| 28 | For example , this free trade article has been wrongly used to draw up radical measures banning tobacco advertising , a matter which has nothing to do with free trade , and a pure case of Commission empire-building . |
| 29 | But this has nothing to do with any issue concerning authority . |
| 30 | It will be clear that my not being a Christian has nothing to do with any feminist stance which I may espouse . |