Example sentences of "have [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pareto criterion has nothing to say about such a change . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the meantime she has nothing to say to any of you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | This moment of pausing before acting has nothing to do with freezing or suppression . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is achieved , not by drugs , but by a " minor muscle relaxant " which has nothing to do with one glass of iced champagne . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A majority of economists would , therefore , argue that the present high level of unemployment has nothing to do with new technology . |
| 13 | It has nothing to do with that at all . ’ |
| 14 | Functionality has nothing to do with that ; all that different kinds of functionality do is affect the forms which relative autonomy takes . |
| 15 | It has nothing to do with that man , nothing ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | [ T ] his government 's challenge to freedom has nothing to do with totalitarian despotism . |
| 18 | In fact it has nothing to do with political affiliations at all , since admiration and support for Rigoberta Menchu has come from all sides . |
| 19 | Good poetry has nothing to do with political correctness . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But this has nothing to do with any issue concerning authority . |
| 22 | It will be clear that my not being a Christian has nothing to do with any feminist stance which I may espouse . |
| 23 | I 've already told you Lori is just someone I know , and has nothing to do with any of this , ’ she countered . |
| 24 | THE DELIVERY of milk in the UK is about to undergo its biggest shake-up since the war — and this has nothing to do with any possible attack on the traditional British pinta by Brussels Eurocrats . |
| 25 | I have contended that the success , and for that matter failure , of blacks in sport has nothing to do with so-called physical characteristics which they are all meant to share , nor with psychological predispositions which they clearly do not have , and certainly not with physical inheritances which are said to have been somehow transmitted genetically from their slave forefathers . |
| 26 | Love … has nothing to do with sexual relations . |
| 27 | IT IS becoming increasingly difficult to take seriously claims that the civil side of nuclear power has nothing to do with nuclear weapons . |
| 28 | John McDowell has challenged Mackie 's assumption that a genuinely objective feature of the world must be something whose thereness in the world has nothing to do with human responses to it . |
| 29 | ( ’ Subjective' here has nothing to do with ethical subjectivism ; it is generally supposed that the existence of this subjective obligation is an objective fact . ) |
| 30 | I think the reason a lot of guitarists go out and buy traditional Fender or Gibson-like designs has nothing to do with single coil versus humbuckers , vintage trem systems or control layout ; they simply hope that some of their guitar hero 's ‘ mojo magic ’ will rub off on them ! |