Example sentences of "had [adv] do [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospering of Unionism had less to do with the war than is generally assumed , and it was more healthy in 1914 and less certain of prosperity in 1922 . |
| 2 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 3 | She was surprised to see that he was struggling for words — something he had not done since the day two years before when her brother Thomas had been murdered by the English . |
| 4 | The Confait Case ( 1977 ) illustrated how innocent suspects could be pressurised into confessing to something they had not done in the face of sophisticated techniques of interrogation and rather less sophisticated threats . |
| 5 | He also became very defensive and threatened human visitors in a way that he had not done before the young were born . |
| 6 | The people of Lewis saw no reason why they should not have their crofts and jobs as well , as they had always done since the boom days of the kelp industry . |
| 7 | Most were of local importance only , serving a limited rural hinterland in the way they had always done since the Middle Ages . |
| 8 | Branson was not able to inspire the same sense of esprit de corps among the hastily assembled team of Event journalists as he had always done among the staff at Virgin , and the magazine quickly became rife with internecine dispute and conspiracy theories . |
| 9 | On one wall was a big map of Vangmoor , on another a print of the only painting Constable had ever done of the moor , Loomlade church with Big Allen behind . |
| 10 | The man himself was affecting her more powerfully than any other man had ever done in the whole of her life . |
| 11 | The '90s have not started well for Wales 's native cattle breed , but the halving of the Royal Welsh Black entries to 41 had more to do with the recession and choice of judge than the breed 's current popularity . |
| 12 | The situation was touched with sadness ( the trip was ostensibly a day out for the girl , thus implying the limitations of her life 's experience ) and the photographs of the girl snatched by an opportunist art student for later exhibition had more to do with the exploitation of human life by art than with mental handicap . |
| 13 | Sadly , the case had more to do with the freedom of the press than with the rights of the mentally handicapped to live , and when the Mail was cleared of contempt by the Law Lords it was a victory for the freedom of the press not the mentally handicapped present in our society . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you think that had more to do with the World Council of nations assuming power and nationalising religion … ? ’ |
| 15 | But But this victory — which lifts Ferguson 's team into fifth place , nine points behind leaders Norwich , who visit Old Trafford next Saturday — had more to do with the midfield prowess of Paul Ince . |
| 16 | A Section was camped in a knoll at the end of a spur near Nasuta and they built an observation point which was approached by a crawl through thickets before climbing a tree to a branch chair — the comfort of its armrests had more to do with the watcher keeping absolutely still than with his ease . |
| 17 | The UDC s contribution to the politics of progress had more to do with the transmission of old values than with any radical new thinking . |
| 18 | The FT-SE Index crashed nearly 14 points to 2691.7 but the fall had more to do with the Maastricht jitters than America 's new President . |
| 19 | However , Ybarra claims SunPics ' reluctance had more to do with the fact that henceforth it will have to pay for Adobe imaging technologies like PostScript and display Postscript . |
| 20 | In June 1964 a law transformed RTF into O ( for ‘ Office ’ ( RTF's ' This law had more to do with the organizational needs of a body attempting to adjust to the expansion of broadcasting than with the issue of political control . |
| 21 | However , it was the evaluators ' impression that the dispute coincided with a certain demoralisation amongst panel members which had more to do with the disorganisation and instability of the panel itself . |
| 22 | It had more to do with the easy communion between Katherine and Thomas Sachs , the way his eyes sometimes fell on her when she was n't looking . |
| 23 | That the economy did not show signs of recovery once hostilities had ceased had more to do with the political choices made by the Franco regime than with the economic structures themselves . |
| 24 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 25 | For her it had worked well in some ways but not in others , which had mainly to do with the relationship between her and her foster mother after her son Sean was born . |
| 26 | And Mr Wolski did something he had never done in the Zoo before : he whistled the tune of a childhood song while he worked . |