Example sentences of "to do with [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it does have a lot to do with is that the Moat Centre has not had clear significant management on the ground and what we 're proposing here today should produce that in the very near future and what the proposals that Mr proposals would have done is not produced that in the significant future and I think that 's the point that really needs to be stressed . |
| 2 | Was it something to do with being a vegetarian ? |
| 3 | Educating pupils with special educational needs can be an expensive activity and being caring , compassionate and tolerant has little to do with being cost effective . |
| 4 | But it 's got nothing to do with being a Nazi as far as I 'm concerned … |
| 5 | He wore a steel bracelet on his wrist — something to do with being a Sikh , Nutty understood , with rain , and she had Midnight to ride . |
| 6 | Perhaps it all has to do with being unworldly and prepared to believe in the little people at the end of the garden . |
| 7 | What has all this got to do with being sixty ? |
| 8 | I 've always had a yen for married women — it 's something to do with being an only son , I suspect , some sort of Oedipal urge to play Daddy 's part with Mummy — and I knew by experience how much care and tact is needed . |
| 9 | ‘ Constitutional matters do not have anything to do with being on speaking terms , they have to do with legal status . |
| 10 | Certain happenings in her body had stopped ; she had thought it was something to do with being married , or almost so , to Paul . |
| 11 | Good health is as much to do with being in good spirits , being happy and content , coping with the problems and difficulties of life , but enjoying life to the fullest extent possible . |
| 12 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 13 | ‘ Naah , it 's all definitely worth doing , it 's nothing to do with being a fad or something specifically Californian , it just makes you feel better … ‘ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think our friendship has much to do with being in the same business . |
| 15 | No , it was nothing to do with being taught the great learning of the world . |
| 16 | It had nothing to do with being Australian or English . |
| 17 | We identified with all of these women , because none of them had anything to do with Being Beautiful . |
| 18 | It must be something to do with being an anthropologist , she decided . |
| 19 | But every single thing to do with being a Muslim seemed quite incredibly controversial . |
| 20 | I mean , it would n't surprise me in the least if , if you analyzed this dream you discovered it had nothing to do with being at school and nothing to do with taking exams . |
| 21 | Well the other thing to do with being fascist |
| 22 | the other thing is to do with being fascist , yes , but you know you erm , you can talk about Russia , you know , running under the Czar and all the rest of it before communism came along . |
| 23 | I do n't like it , and it 's nothing at all to do with being frigid . |
| 24 | Perhaps it 's something to do with being the only civil department still with the power to send in a gunboat . |
| 25 | You see it 's all to do with being fair and |
| 26 | I mean but anyway that 's nothing to do with being thick by the way . |
| 27 | But fundamentally what succeeds is what keeps people listening or watching and so forth , and I 'm suggesting that that 's something to do , it , it 's something to do with being interesting and relevant and catching the imagination of that particular audience group . |
| 28 | Whatever happened , the last person he wanted to have anything more to do with was Eleanor Fuller . |
| 29 | According to Straus , Mandela has said he has no plans to write anything — ‘ the only book he had anything to do with was ours ’ . |