Example sentences of "[vb -s] [indef pn] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By persuading everyone to think " revenue " , the Profitboss encourages everyone to contribute to revenue generation . |
| 2 | Oh , David 's father , he 's such an old stick nowadays , he wants everyone to jump to attention when he comes in the room . |
| 3 | When Xerxes invaded , Herodotus has nothing to say about resistance by Macedon , and this is one of the strongest arguments for thinking they medised . |
| 4 | This autobiography has nothing to say of courtship , but that , as Dr Vincent has suggested , could well be because working-class autobiographers did not judge it a subject their readers wanted to know about , and many of them in any case lacked the command of an emotional language to describe their feelings . |
| 5 | This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog , or even whether dogs actually exist at all . |
| 6 | Whatever the true origins of grammatical gender , it can not be true that it has nothing to do with sex . |
| 7 | For the Formalists , by contrast , literature has nothing to do with vision or with authorial meaning . |
| 8 | The reason you want to see his lordship has nothing to do with gratitude and you know it . |
| 9 | The main purpose of the pro-am has nothing to do with golf . |
| 10 | But what 's happening here has nothing to do with loyalty or belief . ’ |
| 11 | When they decide on a particular form of credit , their decision commonly has nothing to do with cost : it is simply that that form of credit is almost automatically part of the buying process that they 're used to . |
| 12 | THOSE who are charged with looking after the royal stables are given the title of equerry , but this has nothing to do with equus , the Latin word for a horse . |
| 13 | But he winced at that , and she thought , this has nothing to do with ego , and continued , ‘ I 'm thinking that really the big difference is that it must make it more difficult to handle things . |
| 14 | When ATP staged their spectacular split from the Men 's Tennis Council in 1989 , however , their officials constantly told me , ‘ This has nothing to do with money . |
| 15 | One would think , in some Christian churches , that the Devil is entirely concerned with tripping-up the faithful on a day to day basis and has nothing to do with racism , class hatred , war , ecological disaster , and political oppression ( see chapter nine ) . |
| 16 | It is commonly suggested that since faith depends on assumptions , it has nothing to do with knowledge , just as knowledge has no need of faith . |
| 17 | If faith has nothing to do with knowledge , then we Christians doubt because our faith is weaker than knowledge . |
| 18 | It may have something to do with intelligence , but I am certain it has nothing to do with knowledge — I mean that there are people who have an instinctive yet perfect moral judgment , who can perform the most complex ethical calculations as Indian peasants can sometimes perform astounding mathematical feats in a matter of seconds . |
| 19 | But this type of spirituality has nothing to do with mysticism . |
| 20 | This type of spirituality , which relies on feelings and even on bodily experience like trance or speaking in tongues , has nothing to do with mysticism but is an entirely different type of religious experience . |
| 21 | Common sense suggests that the real risk of audit failure has nothing to do with independence . |
| 22 | Common sense suggests that the real risk of audit failure has nothing to do with independence . |
| 23 | This has nothing to do with brain washing or the era of big brother . |
| 24 | ‘ What I had in mind has nothing to do with sentimentality . ’ |
| 25 | Can one really strip away the lexical component leaving behind a non-verbal residue which has nothing to do with communication in words ? |
| 26 | It has nothing to do with warning time for the invasion of Kuwait , which has no relevance to my statement . |
| 27 | It is worth saying that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation or the Rothschild report ; it will give the tools to British Coal so that it can compete successfully for the coal contract post-April 1993 . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State 's ringing declaration that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation is an example of the double-speak that the Tories use when they start talking about the British coal industry . |
| 29 | That does not affect our commitment to safety and it has nothing to do with privatisation . |
| 30 | The key point in the New Zealand Rail story has nothing to do with privatisation . |