Example sentences of "have [adv] to do " in BNC.

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1 It is rather the kind of causal concomitant of the blow that has wholly to do with internal processes of tissue regeneration .
2 One is driven to the conclusion that here , too , the charge has most to do with symbolism .
3 A shrewd theologue said that personality has all to do with function .
4 The sinewy elegance of these figures is unusual , and has perhaps to do with the fact that the Aeginetan sculptors are recorded as preeminent in bronze .
5 However , more important is the third meaning of impetus which has also to do with physical performance .
6 However , I think it would also be an excellent opportunity to combine forces with Environment Wales , something CPRW has yet to do .
7 While this editorial choice may have had partly to do with the length of the two poems , it seems nonetheless that there was limited scope for rebellious thought in Leapor 's first volume .
8 It is with the latter sort of crime fiction that those of us who enjoy writing comedy will have most to do .
9 And that , and that 's it , but I mean , to do , to have somewhere to do two hundred like this would be absolutely incredible !
10 She does not deny the philosophical impetus toward a Horatian retirement , but suggests that garden retreats often had less to do with spiritual delights than with ‘ the bodily and social pleasures of a fashionable men 's club transposed to rural surroundings …
11 Conscription , they protested , had less to do with military preparedness than with providing the Government with the power to coerce the labour movement .
12 Indeed , this sexual labelling had less to do with actual sexual practices than with the extent to which young women 's behaviour conformed to the popular ideas of ‘ femininity ’ — for instance by the use of swear words or loud behaviour , ( this is more fully discussed in Sue Lees , 1986 ) .
13 Conversely the make-up girls had less to do than in the black-and-white days .
14 The prospering of Unionism had less to do with the war than is generally assumed , and it was more healthy in 1914 and less certain of prosperity in 1922 .
15 The internal mechanisms regulating relations between different enterprises and industries during the long post-war boom had less to do with price competition between enterprises and , in countries like the UK , more to do with state policies .
16 Consequently , the fate of children 's contributions sometimes had less to do with their quality than with their ability to sustain the teacher 's pre-existing intentions for the session as a whole .
17 According to French reports , however , the main cause of the deadlock , centring on oilseed production , had less to do with France than with Germany , the EC 's largest producer of rapeseed .
18 That had more to do with management and the presentation of the play to those who were backing it — so instead of playing Beefy , who is described as ‘ the world 's most beatific observer ’ I played the opposite number who was ‘ the world 's last shy elegant young man ’ .
19 The reason why they turned to anthropology and history had more to do with their analysis of capitalism than with a concern with pre-capitalist societies for themselves .
20 The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality .
21 The '90s have not started well for Wales 's native cattle breed , but the halving of the Royal Welsh Black entries to 41 had more to do with the recession and choice of judge than the breed 's current popularity .
22 The situation was touched with sadness ( the trip was ostensibly a day out for the girl , thus implying the limitations of her life 's experience ) and the photographs of the girl snatched by an opportunist art student for later exhibition had more to do with the exploitation of human life by art than with mental handicap .
23 Sadly , the case had more to do with the freedom of the press than with the rights of the mentally handicapped to live , and when the Mail was cleared of contempt by the Law Lords it was a victory for the freedom of the press not the mentally handicapped present in our society .
24 ‘ Do n't you think that had more to do with the World Council of nations assuming power and nationalising religion … ? ’
25 The applications of Papert 's ideas to the Third World had more to do with Servan-Schreiber 's priorities , than with the immediate concerns of the computer scientists the politician had gathered .
26 The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills .
27 However , while dispute in the Reich centred on the political control of Ernst Röhm 's brownshirt empire within an empire , in Danzig the affair had more to do with petty jealousies and spite , through which the hazy outline of some dispute about the future and direction of the Party was just discernible .
28 For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there .
29 But But this victory — which lifts Ferguson 's team into fifth place , nine points behind leaders Norwich , who visit Old Trafford next Saturday — had more to do with the midfield prowess of Paul Ince .
30 A Section was camped in a knoll at the end of a spur near Nasuta and they built an observation point which was approached by a crawl through thickets before climbing a tree to a branch chair — the comfort of its armrests had more to do with the watcher keeping absolutely still than with his ease .
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