Example sentences of "have little to do [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Clearly , group formation and aggression by contemporary human beings has little to do with hunting and survival . |
| 4 | Subjectivity is a daily pitfall but I seem to observe that being ‘ earthed ’ has little to do with intellect , class , fortune or even belief . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That ratio has little to do with stewardship , being concerned with indicating the success or failure of the business during the year . |
| 8 | They feel useless being no longer productive workers and yet having little to do at home . |
| 9 | The whole sado-masochistic scene seemed to her to have little to do with love . |
| 10 | This ‘ hypersplenic hyposplenism ’ suggested that in this group splenic function had little to do with spleen size . |
| 11 | He had played steadily enough and the fact that the Lions were able to outwit the All Blacks in that series had little to do with Mains ' ability . |
| 12 | Leese considered the initials of the organization to be unfortunate , and argued quite logically that it was misnamed , as its platform had little to do with fascism . |
| 13 | Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience . |
| 14 | The simple demand for the vote , the be-all and end-all of most suffragettes , was truly seen by McAllister as a minor step compared with relieving poor women 's social and economic disabilities , a measure which had little to do with suffrage . |
| 15 | In fact the darkness , the whispers , the creaking floorboards , the footsteps and the thought of a stalking murderer had had their usual effect on her : a state of fear that had little to do with pleasure . |
| 16 | That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones . |
| 17 | It had little to do with science in society , and writers Lawrence Moore and Robert Young seemed slightly self-conscious about this , using the words ‘ science ’ and ‘ technology ’ as much as possible in relation to management , roller coasters et al to compensate . |
| 18 | In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations . |
| 19 | And there is always the problem of establishing a link between enforcement activity and its impact : most changes in water quality may be attributable to levels of economic activity and shifts in patterns of land-use , which have little to do with pollution control work . |
| 20 | Finally , the reasons for moving ministers frequently have little to do with ability and the time spent in any particular office is often too short to allow the minister to master the subject and the department . |
| 21 | Certainly the most difficult ideas in statistics have little to do with mathematics but are rather about what is knowable and how it may be known . |
| 22 | First , as shown in the previous section , factors which have little to do with cost — such as habit , convenience , being paid weekly will continue to dictate many people 's choice of credit . |
| 23 | For this reason office duties are disliked and paperwork despised as ‘ dirtywork ’ ( Hughes , 1971:343 ff. ) which diverts time and energy from ‘ real ’ pollution control work , making one accountable for matters which have little to do with law enforcement . |
| 24 | Golf course get the thumbs down — the study says they have little to do with farm tourism — and further farm museums , rare breed centres and farm attractions which need a large number of visitors to service a high capital investment should not be encouraged . |
| 25 | We suspect that your recommendations have little to do with Pool 's well-being , and much to do with preserving the secrets of your people . ’ |
| 26 | Rather than contemplate the real world , Mr Pick prefers to bustle off in pursuit of symbols that have little to do with war itself , like the Channel tunnel , or the Nazi Holocaust , or time-and-motion studies in industry . |
| 27 | This is partly explained by the fact that the countries and institutions that collectively wield the greatest power in the EEC have focused their attention on matters arising out of the Single European Act which have little to do with trade . |