Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] have [pron] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 15 she had once to be carted from the links of Gullane having had too much to drink , but she will tell you that that had nothing to do with the pressures of competition , rather that she was merely going through a rebellious streak . |
| 2 | I was a bloody idiot to think that that had anything to do with it . |
| 3 | I am not saying that that had anything to do with the fact that Brigadier Crawley was in the same regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel Inkin , who is the chairman of the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 4 | She added smoothly , ‘ Not that that had anything to do with me , but I could n't stop her . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether he does , or whether he does n't — I can assure you that that has nothing to do with the quality of my work ! ’ she hissed , barely able to remember a time when she had felt quite so angry . |
| 6 | I do not believe that that has anything to do with the Government . |
| 7 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Doctor Staples said , ‘ it would be unscientific to assume that this had anything to do with his lung collapse . |
| 8 | It should be emphasized that this has nothing to do with our normal perception of color ; quarks are far too small to be seen by visible light . |
| 9 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 10 | He was not responsible for G division or the metropolitan area , so this had nothing to do with him . |
| 11 | as if that had anything to do with the ability of a poet to read his own poems ! |
| 12 | The great , I mean , you 've a valid point and I think it 's due to the recession in America , I think we were disappointed were we not Bruce , that the results of our trip to er , New York State , and this has nothing to do with the enthusiasm of the business people we met there , everything to do , in my view , with the fact that the recession , and America 's been through a very tough recession , they just do n't look to expand elsewhere , but the reaction we had in , in er , in America was very , very powerful of , of a wish to want to do something when things look better . |
| 13 | THE DELIVERY of milk in the UK is about to undergo its biggest shake-up since the war — and this has nothing to do with any possible attack on the traditional British pinta by Brussels Eurocrats . |
| 14 | But this has nothing to do with any issue concerning authority . |
| 15 | THOSE who are charged with looking after the royal stables are given the title of equerry , but this has nothing to do with equus , the Latin word for a horse . |
| 16 | But this has nothing to do with the use of ministerial sanctions ; it largely reflects the use of RENFE ( as of other state enterprises ) by aspiring politicians as a springboard to ministerial or other high office . |
| 17 | ‘ She has been taking medication but we do n't know yet whether that had anything to do with it . |
| 18 | I was told that it became hand-tamed almost immediately , and I wondered whether this had anything to do with those eyes . |
| 19 | We wonder whether this has anything to do with an ‘ upgradeable ’ machine DEC seems to be using where you could yank out the 80486 and substitute a P5 . |
| 20 | Now whether this has anything to do with a conflict between right and left halves of the brain is not really the issue here . |
| 21 | Parents may jump to the conclusion that the fact of being adopted is the root of the trouble when that has nothing to do with the case . |
| 22 | Other writers also complained of their treatment at the hands of benefactors , even when this had nothing to do with dedications . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , a doctor or psychologist may sometimes reinforce parents ' concern by remarking , ‘ Well , of course , he 's adopted , ’ when this has nothing to do with the matter in question . |
| 24 | ‘ The whole of Stalinvast may be in chaos in the ordinary sense , but Chaos as such has nothing to do with it . |