Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises : |
| 2 | But electoral blocs had little or nothing to do with divergencies of opinions . |
| 3 | In Uruguay the first journal was called Ferrocarril ( ‘ Railway ’ ) , although its content had little or nothing to do with railways . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner . |
| 6 | He found that the proportion of over-70s registered for a proxy/postal vote varied from 0.7 per cent to 25 per cent in different parts of the country ; this variation has little or nothing to do with geographical or demographic factors . |
| 7 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
| 8 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 9 | But more often than not these decisions are made for reasons which have little or nothing to do with creativity . |
| 10 | The Chinese definitions are complex : there are new entrants to the job market who are ‘ waiting for employment ’ ; those who have become unemployed because of new reforms which include a bankruptcy law ; those who refuse job assignment ; concealed unemployment where labour has been assigned to enterprises to maintain a fiction of full employment ; and surplus labour — peasants with little or nothing to do — in the rural areas . |
| 11 | In the liberal view the attraction exerted over them by extremist doctrines had little or nothing to do with the social composition of the radicals . |
| 12 | First , it is evident that the broad public interest criteria which are identified in the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , and the existence of the ‘ gateways ’ in the Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 , potentially ( and in practice ) permit issues to be considered that either have little or nothing to do with economic efficiency , or are more properly the concern of other areas of policy . |
| 13 | Any full study of ‘ unfair competition ’ would have to take account of the legislation protecting intangible business property like trade marks and patents , and of the statutory controls over restrictive trading agreements and monopolies , which have little or nothing to do with anything resembling the law of tort . |
| 14 | Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy . |
| 15 | More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay . |
| 16 | But does this apparent wide-scale support for examinations disguise another motive , that has little or nothing to do with either the practicality or desirability of examining children 's work in these subjects ? |
| 17 | A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do . |
| 18 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |
| 19 | You will find , too , that much of the invented music which is wrapped around the perceived nakedness of those song-melodies uses textures and harmonic colours that have little or nothing to do with real medieval polyphony . |
| 20 | In practice , writers on style have differed a great deal in their understanding of the subject , and one source of disagreement has been the question " To what or whom do we attribute style ? " |
| 21 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
| 22 | You could n't often get big sizes in them & I do n't think they did boys ' sizes in Dr. Martens — when they did , some girls wore them . |
| 23 | I 've forgotten when you said you 're going to Ottawa but if that 's really soon & I do n't hear from you before then , have a great time , I hope the meetings are short & the pints are big ! |
| 24 | ‘ In Australia you are not supposed to have a cleaner or someone to do things for you , there 's not such a class distinction . |
| 25 | ‘ No chance that they 'd have conspired to bribe Ramsbum or Gooseneck or someone to do it for them ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's like a kind of flowing thing where no note has more value than any other , and where I do n't even know what 's going to happen at any given point . |
| 27 | S as Spike knows , about phoning places that I where I do n't recognize the number and asking them who the fuck they are and when he called them . . |
| 28 | ‘ Come where I do n't have to shout at you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 30 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |