Example sentences of "[vb -s] nothing [to-vb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog , or even whether dogs actually exist at all .
2 Whatever the true origins of grammatical gender , it can not be true that it has nothing to do with sex .
3 For the Formalists , by contrast , literature has nothing to do with vision or with authorial meaning .
4 The reason you want to see his lordship has nothing to do with gratitude and you know it .
5 The main purpose of the pro-am has nothing to do with golf .
6 But what 's happening here has nothing to do with loyalty or belief . ’
7 When they decide on a particular form of credit , their decision commonly has nothing to do with cost : it is simply that that form of credit is almost automatically part of the buying process that they 're used to .
8 THOSE who are charged with looking after the royal stables are given the title of equerry , but this has nothing to do with equus , the Latin word for a horse .
9 But he winced at that , and she thought , this has nothing to do with ego , and continued , ‘ I 'm thinking that really the big difference is that it must make it more difficult to handle things .
10 When ATP staged their spectacular split from the Men 's Tennis Council in 1989 , however , their officials constantly told me , ‘ This has nothing to do with money .
11 One would think , in some Christian churches , that the Devil is entirely concerned with tripping-up the faithful on a day to day basis and has nothing to do with racism , class hatred , war , ecological disaster , and political oppression ( see chapter nine ) .
12 It is commonly suggested that since faith depends on assumptions , it has nothing to do with knowledge , just as knowledge has no need of faith .
13 If faith has nothing to do with knowledge , then we Christians doubt because our faith is weaker than knowledge .
14 It may have something to do with intelligence , but I am certain it has nothing to do with knowledge — I mean that there are people who have an instinctive yet perfect moral judgment , who can perform the most complex ethical calculations as Indian peasants can sometimes perform astounding mathematical feats in a matter of seconds .
15 But this type of spirituality has nothing to do with mysticism .
16 This type of spirituality , which relies on feelings and even on bodily experience like trance or speaking in tongues , has nothing to do with mysticism but is an entirely different type of religious experience .
17 Common sense suggests that the real risk of audit failure has nothing to do with independence .
18 Common sense suggests that the real risk of audit failure has nothing to do with independence .
19 This has nothing to do with brain washing or the era of big brother .
20 ‘ What I had in mind has nothing to do with sentimentality . ’
21 Can one really strip away the lexical component leaving behind a non-verbal residue which has nothing to do with communication in words ?
22 It has nothing to do with warning time for the invasion of Kuwait , which has no relevance to my statement .
23 It is worth saying that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation or the Rothschild report ; it will give the tools to British Coal so that it can compete successfully for the coal contract post-April 1993 .
24 The Secretary of State 's ringing declaration that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation is an example of the double-speak that the Tories use when they start talking about the British coal industry .
25 That does not affect our commitment to safety and it has nothing to do with privatisation .
26 The key point in the New Zealand Rail story has nothing to do with privatisation .
27 So it should be clear that the separation of husband and wife has nothing to do with infertility of the woman .
28 And this is where humours has nothing to do with humorousness .
29 The much vaunted ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle has nothing to do with federalism as such and everything to do with Catholic social theory .
30 The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) .
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