Example sentences of "have [det] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And has that changed at all ?
2 Believe me , intellectual age has little to do with emotional maturity .
3 Convertible prices always tend to dip in the autumn , particularly after a balmy summer , but the advice to buy has little to do with cyclic depression .
4 On Easter Monday an event takes place which has little to do with traditional Easter activities , but which has associations with a very old May custom , as we shall see .
5 The real reason the normally rabid and vociferous DQ was such a wimp with Phil and Luke Gangsta has little to do with inverse racism .
6 It has little to do with local regional architecture .
7 There are many such traditions , of course , and in fact the Hayward show has little to do with any of them .
8 As a result , the precise direction of innovation by the companies that introduce new technology often has little to do with improved efficiency or better production , but depends on the different political interests of the managers and workers involved .
9 For him the " prevailing intellectual climate " can not be relied upon to " complement and complete specialist training " ; nor can specialist training offer a " discipline " suited to developing the sense of " social responsibility " favoured by inter-war model of English studies , in its emphasis upon the past , has little to offer on those crucial " cultural " questions of quality of living , " human ends as well as means " , or on the relations between culture and economic processes .
10 What has this to do with interactive multimedia ?
11 You describe yourself as an intuitive rather than an analytical collector ; has this changed at all over the years ?
12 Has this occurred in this case ?
13 Together , books and television form a useful alliance which has another set of special characteristics .
14 If the air around the St Lawrence Ground is thick with optimism , the rise of Mark Ealham has much to do with that .
15 The NHS has much to learn from other industries and organisations that have been through similar changes .
16 The rolling Midland landscape , even despite the amount of modern hedgerow removal , still has much to offer in visual terms .
17 We believe the principles and experiences of the community development process has much to contribute to such a new model .
18 History has much to contribute to vocational education in both its narrower and broader definitions .
19 This has all come as welcome news to the Anglo American Corporation , South Africa 's biggest industrial and mining group .
20 Privatization of this sort has less to do with increased public choice by individual consumers and more to do with the cheaper provision of a standard service .
21 In many ways the motive for holding stock in related companies has less to do with short-term dividend prospects and much more to do with group cohesion and stability that is vital for securing material supplies or finding markets .
22 Out of context , even readers devoted to the Victorian novel may have difficulty in identifying that house , for they take from the novel that contains it a very different impression , one that has less to do with idyllic life than with decay and death .
23 The Walthamstow jumper was outstayed over the course and distance a month ago but has less to do on this occasion .
24 At present their sound has more to do with youthful enthusiasm than finesse .
25 ‘ Swan Lake has more to do with pelvic thrust than an arabesque , ’ he wrote .
26 Others agreed that there is a negative image but it is within the N.I.O. and the job creation agencies and has more to do with political prejudice than anything else .
27 The genesis of this particular definition , which we might call ‘ the military Pacific ’ , has more to do with American imperial history than with logic .
28 The day I was there , all the children were boys , but this apparently has more to do with French culture than computer culture .
29 Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates .
30 When sexual response in older people is reduced it has more to do with social factors such as the absence of a partner ; health problems , particularly relating to cardiovascular disease , diabetes , multiple sclerosis and prostrate troubles ; drug side-effects ( many drugs prescribed to older people can have adverse effects on sexual functioning ) ; and the intolerance of social attitudes towards sexual activity in older people , which consider sex to be the province of younger people and that older people make rather ridiculous lovers .
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