Example sentences of "[modal v] have [adv] [adj] to do [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Aesthetes among the novices will by now be thoroughly irritable and complaining that gardens should have as much to do with the soul as with the necessity or not of a washing line or a barbecue pit .
2 Arbroath 's walls offer a well-groomed feel , powdered silk , which must have as much to do with the history of the place as with Historic Scotland 's care .
3 If the colouristic range seems limited in places , that may have as much to do with the rather desiccated 30-year-old recording as with the composer 's only part-time virtuoso fingers .
4 The notion is gaining credence that health-care seeking in IBS , particularly to tertiary care centres , may have as much to do with a person 's cultural and psychosocial state as with the IBS symptoms themselves .
5 In so doing we are probably , assuming such abilities exist , mixing chalk with cheese : clairvoyance , for example , may have as little to do with precognition as vision has to do with touch .
6 Thus , the criteria used in planning decisions at the local level may have very little to do with national ideology .
7 ‘ I will have as little to do with you as possible , Monsieur Lemarchand .
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