Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The female has a colour pattern which almost fits that given for the Threadfin Goldie . |
| 2 | It fits perfectly the charm and naivety of the early to mid-fifties ; it has little to do with the self conscious posturings of the later period that Scobie wishes to impute to it ; most of all that of the ‘ Beat generation ’ , for most of the book had been written before Howl howled and junkie commenced the near-universal junketings . |
| 3 | It has little to do with the quality of his jokes or the televisual cut of his suiting , although adequate performance here is important . |
| 4 | It also can isolate one action from another , so that the total sequence is not relevant ( concentration on washing one 's neck has little to do with the subsequent ‘ sea-side ’ actions — the action of washing one 's neck is but an arbitrary item in a string of actions ) ; |
| 5 | It is just possible that this is a master stroke on the part of the CEGB : focus attention on a topic that really has little to do with the inspector . |
| 6 | Throughout his lifetime he had been regarded as an excellently scientific psychologist who had shown that the level of a child 's intelligence has little to do with the child 's home environment ; instead it is a product of the intelligences of the child 's parents . |
| 7 | The sort of ‘ sweeping , wrenching change in national economic govern-ance ’ that Stockman yearned for is the stuff of utopian dreams and has little to do with the realities of American politics . |
| 8 | Obviously mean sea level has little to do with the height of the nip , which is more closely related to high tide level , but high tide level is in itself a variable level . |
| 9 | Identification and interpretation of conventions has little to do with the courts . |
| 10 | Backed by a comfortable working majority , which successive Conservative Administrations enjoyed between 1979–92 , any competent Home Secretary has little to fear from the party opposite . |
| 11 | If this is tomorrow 's generation , Britain has little to fear in the years to come . ’ |
| 12 | ( d ) Standing orders Beyond the requirement that the Houses shall ‘ pass ’ Bills before they receive the Royal Assent , the common law has little to say about the Houses of Parliament . |
| 13 | Pareto does not consider politics or government as subjects separate from sociology , and he has little to say about the concept of power as such . |
| 14 | Dickens , writing in 1850 , has this to say about the district around Watney Street : |
| 15 | The Select Committee ( 1987 ) examin-ing the working of the 1981 Education Act has this to say about the under-fives and special educational needs : |
| 16 | What , it may be asked , has this to do with the law ? |
| 17 | Has this led to the existence of " overseas dialects " of the Caribbean Creoles , in the same way that migration has led to the American , Canadian , Australian and other overseas dialects of English ? |
| 18 | How has this changed since the last local elections , if at all ? |
| 19 | Has this occurred within the EC and if so does it reflect failure of the peer review system ? |
| 20 | But a fine run of only one defeat in the last eight matches has propelled them back into contention in a duel that looks set to go to the last game . |
| 21 | Jon Gittens looks set to return to the heart of defence after five stitches in Nicky Mohan 's injured foot . |
| 22 | Queen of the South chairman , Willie Harkness , 74 , looks set to resign from the Second Division side and be replaced by Bill Jardine , a club director for 17 years . |
| 23 | The solo madrigals lean now toward declamatory monody , now toward coloratura song , often fusing both as in ‘ Amarilli ’ , and in his preface Caccini has much to say about the types of graces — trilli and gruppi-which can heighten expressiveness . |
| 24 | We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful . |
| 25 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 26 | Although , as we shall see , citizenship has much to do with the individual rights of citizens , the concept lacks the implication of liberal individualism often associated with ‘ human rights ’ and found objectionable by many on the political left . |
| 27 | The secret of whetting an audience 's appetite for music of the long-distant past has much to do with the way in which it is presented . |
| 28 | It is clear that reading is a dynamic activity in which the reader is actively involved — that it has much to do with the reader 's thought processes . |
| 29 | What we are now has much to do with the way we have steered round or even collided with the obstacles of our lives . |
| 30 | That has much to do with the bringing together of all participants in the one place — all staying in the same hotel , all competing at the same venue , all joining in the same events , culminating in the Barbarian Easter Tour-style tradition of each nation providing a ‘ cabaret ’ turn at the farewell banquet . |