Example sentences of "have [adv] do with " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather the kind of causal concomitant of the blow that has wholly to do with internal processes of tissue regeneration . |
| 2 | One is driven to the conclusion that here , too , the charge has most to do with symbolism . |
| 3 | That prospective Tory candidate for Cheltenham John Taylor survived attempts to deselect him has much do with her efforts as local party chairman . |
| 4 | A shrewd theologue said that personality has all to do with function . |
| 5 | Now when this is all over , and Saddam has got to be stopped , forcibly stopped , when this is over , I believe that there 's got to be no reneging as this country has constantly done with the Arabs ; there has got to be a Middle East conference , and the Israelis said ‘ yes , we agree to your State , but return to your original frontiers or you will get the same treatment as Saddam has got . ’ |
| 6 | The sinewy elegance of these figures is unusual , and has perhaps to do with the fact that the Aeginetan sculptors are recorded as preeminent in bronze . |
| 7 | But the ICA responded to this challenge as it has always done with the difficult or the new ; with the sort of calculated risk-taking that the majority of Arts Council-sponsored venues habitually shy away from . |
| 8 | However , more important is the third meaning of impetus which has also to do with physical performance . |
| 9 | While this editorial choice may have had partly to do with the length of the two poems , it seems nonetheless that there was limited scope for rebellious thought in Leapor 's first volume . |
| 10 | so in the end I said to him look we 've so really it could have perhaps done with , I suppose if we 'd been sensible it could , because it needed , the gas fire needs to come out , it does need a lot of , still really needs a lot of things doing to it . |
| 11 | Could have just done with tomorrow in . |
| 12 | She does not deny the philosophical impetus toward a Horatian retirement , but suggests that garden retreats often had less to do with spiritual delights than with ‘ the bodily and social pleasures of a fashionable men 's club transposed to rural surroundings … |
| 13 | Conscription , they protested , had less to do with military preparedness than with providing the Government with the power to coerce the labour movement . |
| 14 | Indeed , this sexual labelling had less to do with actual sexual practices than with the extent to which young women 's behaviour conformed to the popular ideas of ‘ femininity ’ — for instance by the use of swear words or loud behaviour , ( this is more fully discussed in Sue Lees , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The internal mechanisms regulating relations between different enterprises and industries during the long post-war boom had less to do with price competition between enterprises and , in countries like the UK , more to do with state policies . |
| 17 | Consequently , the fate of children 's contributions sometimes had less to do with their quality than with their ability to sustain the teacher 's pre-existing intentions for the session as a whole . |
| 18 | According to French reports , however , the main cause of the deadlock , centring on oilseed production , had less to do with France than with Germany , the EC 's largest producer of rapeseed . |
| 19 | In 1456 Coventry negotiated freedom from tolls in Southampton , as it had already done with another port which served it , namely Bristol . |
| 20 | There are other examples of this , and one interesting experiment that we 've just done with birds , was with the gape response in birds . |
| 21 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 22 | That had more to do with management and the presentation of the play to those who were backing it — so instead of playing Beefy , who is described as ‘ the world 's most beatific observer ’ I played the opposite number who was ‘ the world 's last shy elegant young man ’ . |
| 23 | The reason why they turned to anthropology and history had more to do with their analysis of capitalism than with a concern with pre-capitalist societies for themselves . |
| 24 | The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you think that had more to do with the World Council of nations assuming power and nationalising religion … ? ’ |
| 29 | The applications of Papert 's ideas to the Third World had more to do with Servan-Schreiber 's priorities , than with the immediate concerns of the computer scientists the politician had gathered . |
| 30 | The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills . |