Example sentences of "to do with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tirana home service radio initially denounced the hunger strike as having " nothing to do with a loyal strike struggle " , but in subsequent days the radio detailed the hunger strikers ' demands and deteriorating health , and by June 1 had swung round to emotional support for them and for the UITUA . |
| 2 | The second reason has to do with a simple fact of communication . |
| 3 | It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day … |
| 4 | It may be to do with a certain understandable nervousness because they are so far away from the London scene . |
| 5 | They do n't know what to do with a real nome . |
| 6 | Although the Hun Sen years were relatively stable , Kampuchea suffered acutely from lack of foreign aid , since the USA refused to have anything to do with a Vietnam-supported regime . |
| 7 | This is hopes to do with a new boss and a £1m campaign . |
| 8 | Sanctity has little to do with a pietistic other-worldliness and much to do with ordinariness and simplicity — being oneself in God , accepted by the Father , met by the Son , and indwelt by the living Spirit . |
| 9 | ‘ You would find enterprise agencies did not know what to do with a disabled person they would refer them elsewhere and lose the problem . ’ |
| 10 | At first he thought that the flash of light had been something to do with a passing car , possibly a reflection . |
| 11 | Am I being completely cynical in thinking that the Government 's announcement about the great increase in public expenditure has something to do with a general election ? |
| 12 | The Treaty is to do with a possible extension of the British presence here in return for continuing political support . |
| 13 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 14 | The confusion yields when we realize that we have to do with a limited area , however large , and that the ‘ unionists ’ , if I may use this term , made the mistake of extrapolating the ambiguity and interchangeability within this limited area to the whole scope of Mozart 's staccato notation . |
| 15 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 16 | Thus a computer catalogue could print out on demand all the items of which Dr Rhodes Boyson was the author ; or those which had his name in the title ; or all the items having to do with a specific topic , even something so very specific as " The effect of solvents on the killing of bacteria by phenol " ; or all the items in tape-slide format ; or all the items published in Bletchley in 1975 . |
| 17 | This has little to do with a conditioned eye , influenced by architectural orders , and more to do with a basic and instinctive feeling that lifts the spirit and brings about a sense of harmony between the scale of the house and the human frame . |
| 18 | I knew then , I think , that Tod 's cruelty , his secret , had to do with a central mistake about human bodies . |
| 19 | But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Parents may think the best thing to do with a nervous child is to tell him or her not to worry . |
| 21 | But it is worth noting that at least for the criticism of popular culture , and of television in particular , this apparently postmodern move may have less to do with a radical change in the terms of value than with a fundamental shift of attention — and of political faith — from the text to the audience . |
| 22 | This is part of growing up and has nothing to do with a deep-seated homosexual tendency . |
| 23 | It had been something to do with a young girl being held against her will on a secluded stud farm , and there had been a mention of witchcraft and drugs . |
| 24 | No unattached man , should he by some miracle present himself at Four Winds , would want to have anything to do with a dejected and increasingly agoraphobic young mother , still in her teens , and a baby whose fretfulness was beginning to get on even Harriet 's nerves . |
| 25 | You 're a very busy lady I know and I also believe that your area 's got some fantastic ideas for the seventy fifth , something to do with a special cake recipe . |
| 26 | Eddie Alcock , who has represented the Castle Hill , Ipswich , division at County Hall for eight years , said : ‘ It is to do with a difficult situation which has developed in a company which I am associated with . ’ |
| 27 | When asked what to do with a running shoe , the non-exercisers said ‘ run or walk ’ while the exercisers made suggestions as diverse as hammering in nails , killing cockroaches , or putting pot plants in them . |
| 28 | Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy . |
| 29 | How can we think about something colouring our that does n't have anything to do with our bodies , nothing to do with our history , nothing to do with a particular that we 've gone through , nothing to do with our soul faculties . |
| 30 | This has little to do with a conditioned eye , influenced by architectural orders , and more to do with a basic and instinctive feeling that lifts the spirit and brings about a sense of harmony between the scale of the house and the human frame . |