Example sentences of "that [adj] have [indef pn] to do " 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 . |