Example sentences of "nothing [to-vb] with [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 2 | The Queen 's reply was friendly — and totally negative , indicating clearly that personal feelings of friendship had nothing to do with affairs of state : |
| 3 | Perhaps , then , the stripes have nothing to do with defence against predators . |
| 4 | But the Bemba language translator used the word ukubstanduka , which means ‘ to boycott them ’ , so that Kaunda was quoted in Bemba as saying that Zambians should shun or have nothing to do with Britons in Zambia . |
| 5 | It 's nothing to do with laws of form . |
| 6 | So it should be clear that the separation of husband and wife has nothing to do with infertility of the woman . |
| 7 | This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog , or even whether dogs actually exist at all . |
| 8 | The body of work arising from Eugene Garfield 's pioneering efforts in launching his Science Citation Index during the early 1960s has little or nothing to do with evaluation by paper scores ( or their logs ) . |
| 9 | No one has been able to explain it to me ( it 's nothing to do with horses by the way ) . |
| 10 | The seamen are therefore determined that they will have nothing to do with Germans of any description until the Germans have made full reparation for the cruel murders committed and the lives lost on the high seas from submarine action " . |
| 11 | Can one really strip away the lexical component leaving behind a non-verbal residue which has nothing to do with communication in words ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm Lowell Marshall , nothing to do with farming at all . ’ |
| 13 | Noble rot is , as all wine buffs will know , nothing to do with decay in stately homes but simply the French way of describing botrytis cinerea , the mould that forms on over-ripe grapes to produce the smooth taste of Sauternes . |
| 14 | The much vaunted ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle has nothing to do with federalism as such and everything to do with Catholic social theory . |
| 15 | TAUNTON 'S Brewhouse Theatre continues its Christmas tradition of shows that have nothing to do with Christmas with the opening of the Century 's tour of Irma La Douce . |
| 16 | But electoral blocs had little or nothing to do with divergencies of opinions . |
| 17 | It 's got nothing to do with people outside the church . |
| 18 | De Klerk insisted that the government 's decision had " nothing to do with pressure from any quarter or with any wish to gain political capital " ; nonetheless , he said that the move removed one of the " stumbling blocks " in the way of negotiation with the black majority on constitutional reform . |
| 19 | One part of the answer has nothing to do with technology in itself but in the structural changes that are taking place in European societies . |
| 20 | It was nothing to do with Dorrainge at all ; Lugh would make the decisions about where they pitched camp and how much bear meat they brought . |
| 21 | Harvey 's group , for example , found that peeling paint in the home related to lower IQ , but that it was nothing to do with lead in the paint , relating more probably to the influence of the parents . |
| 22 | Does it also present as natural and inevitable the fact that for many working people the concept of a ‘ weekend ’ is nothing to do with ideas of rest and leisure with family or friends ? |
| 23 | Agreeing to reduce total subsidies , said the men from the EEC , has nothing to do with subsidies on individual crops . |
| 24 | Crompton and Jones disagree that class consists only of people , and has nothing to do with places in the stratification system . |
| 25 | Surgeons in are being told to do less emergency operations because of the extra costs involved and in surgeons are ordered to give priority to patients who come from G P budget holders because there 's more money coming from those budget holders , nothing to do with basis of need . |
| 26 | The answer must be that they have nothing to do with crofting as such , and little to do with agriculture , although there are agricultural problems . |
| 27 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |
| 28 | It has nothing to do with self-centredness in the sense of moral immaturity . |