Example sentences of "do with [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so they could have done with cutting the lineouts more , even though this strategy runs the risks of cluttering the midfield . |
| 2 | Erm you could probably do with revising the statistics bit . |
| 3 | I had to make do with stewing the old tea leaves . |
| 4 | It is probable that the " melon " , the bulging dome on the front of a dolphin 's head , looking — pleasing coincidence — like the weirdly bulging radar dome of a Nimrod " advance-warning " surveillance aircraft , has something to do with beaming the sonar signals forwards , but its exact workings are not understood . |
| 5 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 6 | nothing to do with drawing the graph of distance against time . |
| 7 | It had a sort of changing-room summer house , and a brick building that looked hopefully as if it might have something to do with heating the water . |
| 8 | Something to do with calling the French ‘ frogs ’ , apparently . |
| 9 | The frenetic rhythm of the animation , which Richard Williams suggests was imposed by the producers , may also quite possibly have something to do with concealing the matte lines where live action and animation join — if so , it succeeds in that respect . |
| 10 | The business-like approach is right , but there is something disturbing in the implication that intellectual stimulation and education , in its wider sense , have little to do with passing the exams . |
| 11 | I believe it is purely designed as a vote catcher and has nothing to do with creating the national transport infrastructure which Labour will introduce , ’ said Mr Prescott . |
| 12 | ‘ Something to do with pointing the hands at the sun , ’ he guessed . |
| 13 | She held the pole two handed , as if administering the death thrust with Excalibur , plunging it up and down in the soggy mass with a ferocity that had little to do with getting the clothes clean . |
| 14 | And it 's something to do with getting the num the , the system so you 've got zeros in and I did n't understand what the heck it was on about . |
| 15 | This might have something to do with pacifying the masses , since the 15,000 foreign delegates had unprecedented freedom to mingle with ordinary North Koreans , normally isolated from foreigners . |
| 16 | Guttersnipe could not summon up the enthusiasm required to wade through sufficient of this turgid stuff to find out what the ‘ bizarre test ’ was but suspects it might have something to do with explaining the meaning of the words ‘ Do-be-do-be-do ’ at the end of his popular tune ‘ Strangers In The Night ’ . |
| 17 | He is Turkish as well , but the common nationality of his workforce has little to do with solidarity and more to do with limiting the risk of being caught . |
| 18 | Anyroad , I think Lord Stradbroke — he undoubtedly had a lot to do with keeping the people in order — he closed the pub . |
| 19 | It seems that potency level is as much to do with satisfying the need of the practitioner to feel that they are doing something as being a systematic deductive process ! |
| 20 | It described extravagant Easter egg packaging as ‘ a gimmick which has nothing to do with protecting the contents , let alone Easter ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | mhm Do you think it had anything to do with protecting the routes to India ? |
| 23 | We suspect that your recommendations have little to do with Pool 's well-being , and much to do with preserving the secrets of your people . ’ |
| 24 | From Nirex 's new timetable it is clear that the lab has very little to do with rigorous scientific investigation and everything to do with pulling the wool over the eyes of [ local ] people . " |
| 25 | Getting on in the art world has a lot to do with having the right contacts . ’ |
| 26 | This was regarded and listened to with some incredulity by the majority of the airmen , whose main ambition regarding Waafs had much to do with getting them into dark corners , like behind the Naafi , and nothing whatever to do with playing the flute or any other instrument . |
| 27 | Nothing to do with playing the clarinet in the school band . |
| 28 | Shortly before he took up the study of genetics , the American biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan wrote a book , Evolution and Adaptation ( 1903 ) , arguing that evolution was governed solely by the production of saltations , and had nothing to do with adapting the species to its environment . |
| 29 | This does not worry him , since he takes political Realism to be a limiting case whose usefulness has less to do with describing the actual conduct of foreign policy than with providing a way of explaining it . |
| 30 | This paper seeks to uncover and resolve confusions which occur in the use of " design " as a term ; to delineate the significance , philosophically , socially , politically , and so on , of the design activity ( considered both as an " ideal " activity and in its empirical reality ) ; and to outline some particular benefits of this in problems to do with understanding the social benefits of design , design evaluation , technological control , education and social futures . |