Example sentences of "[vb base] nothing [to-vb] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 2 | Not only have UFOs nothing to do with ley lines , they have nothing to do with ancient monuments or geology . |
| 3 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |
| 4 | But , a marvellous thing happened whilst the trial is going on do n't forget , it 's in the dead of night and whilst the trial is going on there is Pilate 's wife at home in bed sleeping , and she has a dream , and seemed as though God spoke to her , and she saw and recognized the awful deed that her husband was about to commit , so she sent an urgent message to him that is , you 've got it in ve ve verse nineteen have nothing to do with that righteousness man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him . |
| 5 | When Svidrigailov and Porfiry , who never meet — bold again — and who have nothing to do with each other , both tell Raskolnikov that a man needs air , my business is to try and suggest how it is that Dostoevsky 's reader finds himself in immediate dual touch with a Petersburg july day and a universal truth . |
| 6 | Humour and sex have nothing to do with each other |
| 7 | It 's really sexist , lumping us together with bands who really have nothing to do with each other , and nothing to do with us . |
| 8 | It 's really sexist , lumping us together with bands who really have nothing to do with each other , and nothing to do with us . |
| 9 | Indeed , his insistence that punishments should only reflect the harm done to society and have nothing to do with subjective intent would seem to imply that the accident-prone should be treated the same as those who cause harm by design ! |
| 10 | Whatever went wrong in the years of Mary 's personal rule , therefore , simply can not be explained by inherited weakness ; her problems have nothing to do with insecure monarchy and overmighty subjects . |
| 11 | The genuine difficulty of understanding intricate artistic designs is evaded by the factitious difficulty of being exalted or troubled by important messages which have nothing to do with musical worth . |
| 12 | Whiskers have nothing to do with human hair and are in fact long thin needle crystals which can be grown from most substances by accident or by care . |
| 13 | Edges that ought to be significant are either absent from an image or almost so and the strongest changes in an image are often changes in illumination and have nothing to do with meaningful relations in a scene . ’ |
| 14 | Similarly , James makes sparse use of adjectives ( 6 ) , and of those that occur , many have nothing to do with physical attributes : unwilling , conventional , affable , casual , cynical , etc . |