Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 21 | You either buy a ticket or you come with a bottle . |
| 22 | Nor were any examples found of we or you co-occurring with a singular verb , and in a very real sense it is this constraint which distinguishes the Belfast vernacular concord system from that of other non-standard varieties . |
| 23 | You can claim if you own your home , you are a tenant or you live with family or friends . |
| 24 | Or attempt to explore with a Central European Jew the precise nature of the ties that he or she feels with a culture which down the centuries has been responsible for so much persecution and pain . |
| 25 | If she wants to go anywhere I take her or she goes with uncle . ’ |
| 26 | It is for the individual to do what he or she likes with it . |
| 27 | In fact ( the myth persists ) , even if the slim person does not especially like these foods , he or she sticks with them for a large part of the time in order to maintain a trim figure . |
| 28 | The researcher , unfortunately , has the same problems with testing this hypothesis , despite its greater precision , as he or she has with the grander ones . |
| 29 | Generally , the approach in this initiative is based on the conviction that the primary and most basic interface between the individual and the social world is to be found in the day to day transactions he or she has with other individuals . |
| 30 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |