Example sentences of "to do [prep] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Drinking it , I wonder what to do about Marianne since this is an all-male affair and I am reluctant to leave .
2 And Unigram 's generally reliable sources reiterated their claims that USL did indeed talk to the Santa Cruz Operation about acquisition ( UX No 396 ) , and now add that USL ca n't possibly decide what to do about SCO until after it knows whether USL itself is going public , going for another investment round or going to get acquired .
3 ‘ Did he — er — mention what he 's going to do for money while he 's away ? ’
4 I imagine he had dreamed of doing what he came to do for years before he tightened up his courage . ’
5 For some , entering the market as consumers had more to do with necessity than with a growth in personal income .
6 This sliding-scale approach might still have relevance to the Post Office Act , on which that case turned , but it has little to do with obscenity as defined in the 1959 Act .
7 But the horror of losing was as much to do with money as with pride .
8 Does he also agree that the reservations in his party about a single currency have more to do with nationalism than with economics ?
9 But Whittingham countered : ‘ It 's got nothing to do with elegance if you are putting in the goals .
10 In the drawings the lamb appears to have bound feet , and the purport of the piece is surely more to do with sacrifice than deliverance .
11 The first intimation of this did not , however , have anything to do with Liza as Harriet had imagined .
12 Pilate 's wife sent him a message begging him to have nothing to do with Jesus as she had experienced a bad dream because of him .
13 Absolutely nothing , it 's politically biased and as much to do with music as The Beano
14 This convergence may have less to do with ideology than with political ‘ learning ’ and having to cope with unanticipated events .
15 This is also the reason why road accidents are so difficult to approach by training , safety on the road is much more to do with attitudes than with driving skill ( Parry , 1968 ) .
16 Erm and it 's all to do with contacts because I 'm still running my own business erm of of
17 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 .
18 It has to do with land as well as landscape , and the right to farm in a time-honoured way . ’
19 The King hoped next to see Baldwin , but the Conservative leader could not be found : he was , ironically , lunching with Geoffrey Dawson , the editor of The Times , and discussing Cabinet appointments — something he found easier to do with Dawson than with his party colleagues .
20 If , as the Department of Health survey reveals , most Brits are monogamous , it has less to do with morality than the fact that they believe a sexual partner is someone who helps you change the duvet .
21 got an enormous amount to do with Opran because you do n't seem to understand the way the drug companies work .
22 that 's right , that 's , that , I think it was so , I mean that she was so it must be just something to do with gardens as well , cos she was a gardener was n't she ? ,
23 The result had as much to do with romanticism as historical accuracy , with simulated timber framing , and a Gothic chimneypiece decorated with scenes of the King 's escape .
24 The offering of a free service and the ability to advertise have obviously been key factors having little to do with questions of social class composition , though they have much to do with socialization since law centres perceive their role very differently from those in private practice .
25 Anything to do with geometry unless you 've had a lot of practice and you 're very good at it , you can finish up wasting time .
26 Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics .
27 It 's got a lot to do with Valium because it 's being
28 To talk instead of making children accept the discipline of learning would seem to have more to do with coercion than with making lessons relevant and interesting .
29 So he er he was most upset was poor Ben so I did explain to him that what he had to do with policemen if they were n't feeling too good was to try and avoid saying things er quite as straightforwardly as that .
30 She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs .
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