Example sentences of "be to do [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every contact I 've ever had with Florian has to have been to do with sex — ’ |
| 2 | Bits of his universe are to do with art and colour and drawing . |
| 3 | Bits of his universe are to do with art and colour and drawing . |
| 4 | Yeah I think on the North Sea , it obviously would have erm an effect on parts of our business , some parts more than others erm it 's very early to say exactly what , what effect it obviously in fact to the extent that it encourages the further development of existing fields that clearly benefits parts , parts of our business that are to do with completion equipment and development equipment . |
| 5 | It is not intended as an effort at resolving these debates : my objectives are specific and political — they are to do with action . |
| 6 | In the civilian context the purposes of attitude training are to do with care about quality and safety . |
| 7 | The relevant requirements ( which have the force of law ) are to do with drainage and ventilation of rooms containing WCs . |
| 8 | The older way is to use the command ASSIGN A : =B : B : =A : but in todays modern MS-DOS this is discouraged for reasons that are to do with networking and device drivers . |
| 9 | And then the long-term ones are to do with demography , with the birth rate , with the number of children in schools which , as most people are probably aware , have gone down dramatically in the last decade . |
| 10 | In this respect Marshall , too , was confusing since he made no explicit distinction between those civil rights which are to do with citizenship — freedom of expression and association for example — and those which are to do with protecting the citizen from the state or the community — the freedom to marry and found a family , a right to privacy for instance . |
| 11 | ‘ T is a rare pity thar ai n't no Brownies now in t' dale to do good turns to housewives , with all t' jobs there are to do from morn till night . ’ |
| 12 | sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm |
| 13 | The world of the mundane is to do with success , status , respect , money , desires of all kinds , and fears , that lead to unhappiness . |
| 14 | My second point is to do with love . |
| 15 | One is to do with equipment . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most obvious one is to do with dress , like how do you dress at a at a job interview , how do you dress in a particular sort of er function at work . |
| 17 | Which was particular and odd , since all magic is to do with knowledge versus ignorance . |
| 18 | Now we 've all seen the intestacy there 's another little bit I like to deal with at this point er which is to do with inheritance tax . |
| 19 | The best-selling sexually explicit blockbuster phenomenon is to do with money , nothing to do with literature . |
| 20 | The humour is to do with timing , expectation and the ups and downs of the piece . |
| 21 | But if the exhibition has a theme it is to do with disharmony , loss of control , shifting understandings . |
| 22 | But if it is to do with relationship it needs witnesses . |
| 23 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 24 | A lot of it is to do with attitude . |
| 25 | The final thing is to do with marketing and here we 've got , in particular , the convenience of the ITs , remember the inclusive tours . |
| 26 | And I think it 's very important that people can come and talk to you and some representative 's of the board because there is unrest Tom and I 'm not prepared to stick my neck out and say in what quarter this lies but it can be got over it can be ironed out because running a theatre is to do with team spirit and that team spirit get 's conveyed to the public . |
| 27 | I think everything on this erm , machine is to do with food , do n't you ? |
| 28 | We have got to face up to the Warner Report as well , which is to do with staffing in community homes , and again , that 's an issue which we can pick up later , as we go into detailed reports . |
| 29 | Cather 's genius , in the end , is to do with certainty of pace , and certainty of focus . |
| 30 | As this whole approach is to do with openness , its third part is to do with giving people information they need , with expressing your own thoughts and feelings and asking for help and advice when you need it . |