Example sentences of "had [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ hypersplenic hyposplenism ’ suggested that in this group splenic function had little to do with spleen size . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At breakfast she found no difficulty in putting on a bright face , directing most of her attention to Matt , who , for some unknown reason , appeared to be in a gloomy mood , and who had little to say in response to her cheerful remarks . |
| 10 | He reserved his deadliness for dealing with opponents in his own party , and had little to spare for use against the MacDonald governments . |
| 11 | In this way , if caught , the smugglers had little to lose in way of investment , it also made the job of our investigators more difficult , especially when often a foreign national would charter a UK vessel . |
| 12 | He had this to say about weathering . |
| 13 | Autee Lord Justice had this to say at page nine two seven quote , having decided that he , brackets the judge close brackets , could make no allowance for the possibility of increased pension payments because of the increased cost of living index , he had to decide the present day value of the fixed sum payable in thirty one years time . |
| 14 | Tizard , for example , mentions the need to support the natural parents to enable them to care adequately ; Kellmer Pringle has advocated payment for mothers who stay at home to care ; and a further interviewee who may be identified with the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view had this to say in answer to the argument that the 1975 Act put already powerless parents in an even more powerless position : |
| 15 | In fact , there was much sympathy expressed for the Führer who had this to suffer on top of all his other worries . |
| 16 | In fact , he still had some to offer for sale in Ambleside in 1819 . |
| 17 | She had already taken one A level in law and had another to take in history as well . |
| 18 | Sorry , and had another to take in history as well as an O level in mathematics at the time of the accident . |
| 19 | Anyone who has been a parent or had much to do with family and children will have seen the discrepancies . |
| 20 | The French Dominican , Yves Congar , perhaps the Church 's greatest prophet of the age , demonstrated with learning , vigour and clarity that Catholicism had much to learn from Protestantism and much to reform in itself . |
| 21 | In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations . |
| 22 | Besides , he had enough to do at home , now the house was on the market at last . |