Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] to do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for me and many others , old school is something that transcends fashion and has precious little to do with paying £60 in London for something that cost $5 in the backstreets of Chicago . |
| 2 | There is also the ‘ to-hell-with-them-all ’ vote of the dispossessed , increasingly common throughout Europe , which has precious little to do with specific constitutional demands . |
| 3 | However , most of the information you see on Prestel has precious little to do with British Telecom . |
| 4 | Most film crews want as little to do with their subjects as possible , yet the Ashleys immediately-became involved in our lives and we in theirs . |
| 5 | But it has comparatively little to do with his holistic claim that individuals are merely the ‘ supports ’ or ‘ bearers ’ of social practices . |
| 6 | The decline of countries has as much to do with the loss of vision as any other factor . |
| 7 | All report a passionate directness of response that they attribute to the setting and the pathology of the patients , but which probably has as much to do with social class . |
| 8 | This has as much to do with the aural texture of guitar-based rock as with funk or soul , and their records often fail to gain airplay on rap specialist radio shows . |
| 9 | That Miro is not as well known as his contemporaries Picasso and Dali has as much to do with personality as with art . |
| 10 | Capital flight has as much to do with political structures as with a loss of confidence . |
| 11 | The vehement anti-US feeling in Nicaragua ( so often cited as the latest Communist ‘ gain ’ in Latin America ) has as much to do with the history of US involvement in the country ( not to mention its current support for counter-revolutionary activity ) as it does with any Marxist ‘ indoctrination ’ . |
| 12 | The naming of tunes in Gaelic dancing has as much to do with the whim of the moment as with anything portentous : ‘ Upstairs in a Tent ’ , or ‘ The Clock on the Dresser ’ , or ‘ The Walls of Limerick , owe more to whimsy in the kitchen on the night than to any attempt by the musician to give his tune immortality . |
| 13 | This is a salutary reminder of the powerful implications of teacher enthusiasm : no doubt at least part of the popularity of any text has as much to do with the way it is taught , as with characteristics embodied in the text itself . |
| 14 | Sometimes the resistance of an anorexic patient to regaining weight has as much to do with the mother 's overinvolvement in the patient 's life as her own unwillingness to change . |
| 15 | ‘ What I think , what I do , has as little to do with you as your activities have to do with me . ’ |
| 16 | What gets investment and what is shown has far more to do with the economic stranglehold of the Hollywood studios and the distribution/exhibition chains . |
| 17 | Subsidiarity is an old doctrine from German Catholic social philosophy and has far more to do with this than with constitutional theory . |
| 18 | As Golding was to remark in Stockholm in 1983 , on receiving the Nobel prize for literature , fiction has far more to do with the general mind of mankind than with the writer 's own quirks and obsessions : ‘ not just what the writer is thinking , but what a huge segment of the world is thinking . ’ |
| 19 | It has far less to do with strategy than with financial bargains struck in the market-place of Whitehall , and with efforts to contain galloping inflation in weapons procurement . |
| 20 | Sutcliffe makes a similar observation : " the real motivation for selecting one dialect or another has relatively little to do with the English class system as such and a great deal to do with ethnic and cultural identification . " |
| 21 | This has very little to do with the quality and entertainment value of the films themselves . |
| 22 | Politics has very little to do with issues ; it is all to do with the personal vanities and ambitions of politicians . |
| 23 | It seems to me that there are a number of satellites ( labels like 4AD , Mute , Factory , Play it Again Sam , Product Inc , Blast First , plus various hip hop , house and electro producers whose work has very little to do with the human ) , satellites bound to Planet Pop by some kind of gravitational attraction , yet estranged by the nature of their practices ( the lost spirit of ‘ 67 and ‘ 79 ) . |
| 24 | It has very little to do with her life , and they would be bizarre parents or catechetists who really wanted the girls in their charge to emulate Rose of Lima in any very direct way . |
| 25 | The comprehensive and pervasive nature of planning makes it easy to forget that it has very little to do with private rights and restrictions . |
| 26 | Much of it has very little to do with what you are , and that is an emotion I have always felt and will always feel . |
| 27 | The weakening effect of the scratch has very little to do with the amount of material removed , a shallow scratch will do nearly as well as a deep one , it is the sharpness of the re-entrant that increases the stress . |
| 28 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 29 | The only memory upgrade that you have performed is to add expanded memory and this has very little to do with the operating system you are using . |
| 30 | The root of delinquency , the alienation , the violent and despairing habits of today 's young , has very little to do with the fact that their parents failed to love them — most adults look round quite desperately for something , anything to coo over , however erratically — but that their parents failed to be worthy of their love . |