Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [indef pn] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is thought to be preferable , this is for reasons having nothing to do with neutrality , such as a desire to bring the war to a speedy end or not to allow people to profit from wars . |
| 2 | Scientists take their side in the battle for reasons having nothing to do with the merits or lack of them of the issues but rather because of their politics . |
| 3 | Dorothy Sayers , discussing the literary tastes of one of her characters , the Russian exile Paul Alexis , said of the Ruritanian type of story that ‘ the greater European powers of the League of Nations had nothing to do with the matter ’ : |
| 4 | This must surely mean that acid rain was natural and the acidification of lochs had nothing to do with power stations . |
| 5 | There is no suggestion that this latest spate of injuries has anything to do with deliberate dirty play , but one gets the impression that things are now so tough that the referees just leave the sides to fight it out , while awarding penalties on a quota basis . |
| 6 | The real world of ‘ scientism ’ which could be characterised in terms having nothing to do with our particular ways of responding to it is a myth , with which it is quite inept to confuse the real ‘ real world ’ . |
| 7 | The boys very consistently had higher success rates in items involving anything to do with measures : estimating , measuring or calculating lengths , time intervals etc . |