Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the reasons why she should n't be allowing this faded into insignificance . |
| 2 | I particularly do not want this to happen to feminism ; hence my choice of subject for this essay . |
| 3 | ‘ You think I made this happen on purpose ? ’ he demanded . |
| 4 | And she said she 'd go , in fact , I I I had fellowship on , because , remember we started on that Tuesday , I said , well , you 'll all be surprised to know that going to prison tomorrow . |
| 5 | ‘ So what has that to do with love ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But what has that to do with desire ? ’ |
| 7 | Indeed , if transit passage could be held applicable to third parties as a general rule of international law of navigation rights through strategic communication routes , the United States has little to lose by refusal to become a party to the Convention . |
| 8 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 9 | This sliding-scale approach might still have relevance to the Post Office Act , on which that case turned , but it has little to do with obscenity as defined in the 1959 Act . |
| 10 | Clearly , group formation and aggression by contemporary human beings has little to do with hunting and survival . |
| 11 | Subjectivity is a daily pitfall but I seem to observe that being ‘ earthed ’ has little to do with intellect , class , fortune or even belief . |
| 12 | At least the up-to-date cost accountant has plenty of ammunition to fire at the chief executive who insists that accounting has little to do with strategy . |
| 13 | He is Turkish as well , but the common nationality of his workforce has little to do with solidarity and more to do with limiting the risk of being caught . |
| 14 | That ratio has little to do with stewardship , being concerned with indicating the success or failure of the business during the year . |
| 15 | While the Introduction has little to say on language specifically , what is said conforms to this broad sense of English . |
| 16 | THOSE who feel Lord Arran has little to say about agriculture must now change their opinion of the Minister who has also to look after health matters in the province . |
| 17 | Eco has little to say about meaning but is aware of some of the problems of pursuing it : |
| 18 | The literature on bereavement , even that of Parkes ( 1986 ) , which focuses on widows , has little to say about bereavement amongst very old people . |
| 19 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 20 | The plaintiff has little to gain by delay . |
| 21 | But the workshop results suggest that South Africa has little to gain by culling seals to reduce their biological interactions with commercial fisheries . |
| 22 | This ensures that he or she has little to reveal under interrogation . |
| 23 | The trial judge found this amounted to negligence . |
| 24 | The chronicler Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg has this to say in support of his view that bishops should be appointed by none other than kings and emperors : |
| 25 | ‘ Amazing , ’ you may say , ‘ but what has this to do with conveyancing ? ’ |
| 26 | What has this to do with hearing ? |
| 27 | Has this changed over time ? |
| 28 | Senna was third — just ahead of Briton Martin Brundle who was driving half blinded by oil spray over his visor . |
| 29 | The threat need not be one offering physical violence , since it may be such as to provoke another to engage in violence , although it usually will be an offer of force of some kind leading the victim to believe that violence against him or another person is about to be used or provoked . |
| 30 | tough game to start with too … team news is that Paul Kee looks set to play in goal … |