Example sentences of "to do with [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whether yer believe it or not , do n't ever let me see or know yer 've 'ad anything to do with 'er agen , ’ she concluded . |
| 2 | " Ah , Mr Timothy , you do n't want to have nothin' to do with them tinkers . |
| 3 | Because the baby 's drastic ascendancy has to do with its voice . |
| 4 | Its reason for this is largely to do with its distrust of the judges who , it feels , would use their power to strike down government action or legislation as being contrary to a Bill of Rights , as the American courts can do , to promote their own conservative values . |
| 5 | But the company did not know what to do with its discovery : Lyle and other directors feared that developing sucralose would create a powerful competitor for the real thing . |
| 6 | However , the overwhelming majority of those inhabitants of the subcontinent who adhered to Islam had no sense of identification with the dynasty ( even when they knew it existed ) and the fact that the dynasty was Muslim had little to do with its exercise of power . |
| 7 | That the attack was an unmitigated tactical disaster for the American military no doubt had much to do with its omission in post-war tales . |
| 8 | There is one additional point we want to make about research which has to do with its collective and temporal character . |
| 9 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 10 | As we argued here on 17 April , Labour 's failure in the 1992 election was more to do with its inability to mobilise its traditional base of support than with any inability to reach out to newer social groupings . |
| 11 | Possibly the West Saxon monarchy 's links with the new monasticism had something to do with its lack of popularity in northern Mercia and Northumbria . |
| 12 | The reasons for believing the silicon chip to be the cause of another industrial revolution are to do with its cost , capability , and versatility . |
| 13 | It had nothing to do with its policies , Neil Kinnock or its campaign . |
| 14 | Germany is having even more trouble deciding what to do with its satellite than France . |
| 15 | The increase in local stress , which can be calculated , depends solely upon the shape of the hole and has nothing at all to do with its size . |
| 16 | It 's got a lot of history , partly to do with its railway background and ’ When I was a girl ’ was set in that world ; red brick , terraced housing and it 's really unique in that sense I think for a town in the south of England . |
| 17 | That is why it is important that the recent troubles at Lloyd 's have more to do with its constitution and management than with the riskiness of the world in which the organization operates . |
| 18 | I am pleased that my right hon. Friend the Member for City of Chester ( Sir P. Morrison ) had a lot to do with its founding when he was a Minister in this Department . |
| 19 | Size clearly has something to do with its effect , he wrote , but not size as reflection of ego . |
| 20 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 21 | Prima facie such a corporation has the power to do with its property all such acts as an ordinary person can do , and to bind itself to such contracts as an ordinary person can bind himself to . |
| 22 | Her fingers were cold , refusing to grip the edges of the stone , and everything was turning , spinning so that it was difficult to focus and to judge how to move and what to do with her limbs . |
| 23 | Even if Dr Kingdom did feel more for Heather than a doctor should for his patient , it does n't mean that had anything to do with her disappearance . ’ |
| 24 | It has very little to do with her life , and they would be bizarre parents or catechetists who really wanted the girls in their charge to emulate Rose of Lima in any very direct way . |
| 25 | After the war it became clear to her that the one heroic thing she was even faintly equipped to do with her life was to teach herself to die honourably , by which she meant without fear . |
| 26 | She was angry at the time , and she was praying for guidance as to what to do with her life . |
| 27 | This smug man who had nothing at all to do with her life had helped to wipe out her father 's existence for her . |
| 28 | That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her . |
| 29 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 30 | She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see . |