Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] with " 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ That — or someone tampering with the sample . ’ |
| 19 | The children did n't go for this much , since a meeting usually became necessary just at the point when they needed clean clothes , juice , a hug , or someone to play with and so on . |
| 20 | I basically leave them stock , except for the lead pickup , where I go with a Lace Sensor Super Lead . |
| 21 | There were points of Government policy where I disagreed with the official line . |
| 22 | Just as unc so a step " up " and a step " down " added together leave me where I started with zero displacement ) . |
| 23 | Erika frowned and tilted her head as if trying to remember and then , cruelly , said , ‘ Oh yes , where I danced with that interesting lad , and with Herman Guttenbruk . ’ |
| 24 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 25 | Home was Croydon , where she lived with her divorced mother in a council flat , supported by social security , supplemented occasionally by haphazard maintenance payments from her father , who was in the Merchant Navy and had not been seen since Val was five . |
| 26 | Brenda continues in Creole until just before " but to dance " , then switches back to London English for the last part of her turn , where she continues with her narration of actual events : " and then and then we star%ed to talk and all the rest of it and tha% " s it " — but switches to Creole for her final " punchline " : " full stop . |
| 27 | In 1882 she went to Girton College , Cambridge , where she studied with Henry Sidgwick , Alfred Marshall [ qq.v. ] , and Neville Keynes . |
| 28 | A few days later the Troop were shown aerial photographs of five tugs towing the sinking ship towards a sandbank , where she settled with her cargo of 5,000 tons of copper . |
| 29 | Publication paved the way for an exciting tour of lectures , in the UK , New Zealand and her native Australia , culminating in the award at Sydney University — where she graduated with a double first in mathematics and physics in 1939 . |
| 30 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |