Example sentences of "have [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ So what has that to do with love ? ’
2 ‘ But what has that to do with desire ? ’
3 Indeed , if transit passage could be held applicable to third parties as a general rule of international law of navigation rights through strategic communication routes , the United States has little to lose by refusal to become a party to the Convention .
4 In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core .
5 This sliding-scale approach might still have relevance to the Post Office Act , on which that case turned , but it has little to do with obscenity as defined in the 1959 Act .
6 Clearly , group formation and aggression by contemporary human beings has little to do with hunting and survival .
7 Subjectivity is a daily pitfall but I seem to observe that being ‘ earthed ’ has little to do with intellect , class , fortune or even belief .
8 At least the up-to-date cost accountant has plenty of ammunition to fire at the chief executive who insists that accounting has little to do with strategy .
9 He is Turkish as well , but the common nationality of his workforce has little to do with solidarity and more to do with limiting the risk of being caught .
10 That ratio has little to do with stewardship , being concerned with indicating the success or failure of the business during the year .
11 While the Introduction has little to say on language specifically , what is said conforms to this broad sense of English .
12 THOSE who feel Lord Arran has little to say about agriculture must now change their opinion of the Minister who has also to look after health matters in the province .
13 Eco has little to say about meaning but is aware of some of the problems of pursuing it :
14 The literature on bereavement , even that of Parkes ( 1986 ) , which focuses on widows , has little to say about bereavement amongst very old people .
15 Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes .
16 The plaintiff has little to gain by delay .
17 But the workshop results suggest that South Africa has little to gain by culling seals to reduce their biological interactions with commercial fisheries .
18 This ensures that he or she has little to reveal under interrogation .
19 The chronicler Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg has this to say in support of his view that bishops should be appointed by none other than kings and emperors :
20 ‘ Amazing , ’ you may say , ‘ but what has this to do with conveyancing ? ’
21 What has this to do with hearing ?
22 Though she has much to say of brokenness , my problem with her book is precisely that , through her swift movement to a triumphant conclusion , symbolized by the resurrection and the unity of humanity , she does not allow there genuinely to be brokenness .
23 Thompson has much to say about law .
24 Neither Leland nor Camden has much to say about industry in England ; and there was nothing that could be specifically called an industrial landscape .
25 Therefore , I do n't think this has much to do with methodology .
26 In its more specific uses it has much to contribute by way of correction to generalizing uses of culture' .
27 If , as the Department of Health survey reveals , most Brits are monogamous , it has less to do with morality than the fact that they believe a sexual partner is someone who helps you change the duvet .
28 Seniority as we have seen has less to do with age per se than promotion either to a higher position or within a grade .
29 That same chapter has more to say about ritual of atonement , and chapter 18 is concerned with the identity and privileges of those who will carry out such ritual , and who will enable the people to dwell with the holiness of God without being destroyed by it .
30 Instead , their contribution has more to do with co-ordination , management of collaboration and complexity , ensuring widespread input and engagement , and , finally , validating or ratifying the commitment of the firm to a course of action .
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