Example sentences of "it have something to do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is charitable to assume that it has something to do with the kind of critic that Pound is . |
| 2 | Possibly it has something to do with the peculiar mixture of moral sensibility and religious revival which marked English society from the mid-18th century onwards . |
| 3 | But if we are to understand it , and , particularly , if we are to distinguish within it between cynical accommodation and genuine playfulness , we are going to have to go beyond the embarrassingly inappropriate assumption that it has something to do with ‘ Brechtian ’ distanciation or ‘ modernist ’ self-reflexiveness . |
| 4 | I feel certain , however , that it has something to do with predators ; the human kind included . |
| 5 | Usually it has something to do with the needs created by sharing : sharing the task of killing a large prey , sharing the task of defending the group against predators , sharing body heat to keep warm at night ; sharing out different duties that can be performed at the same time ; sharing the food that has been obtained by special members of the group ; and so on . |
| 6 | ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that we are in the middle of the media silly-season , a time when papers and TV news bulletins are full of doom-laden Christmas tales . |
| 8 | If Graham is searching for reasons why Arsenal have lost their way , surely it has something to do with his reluctance to use his most gifted players . |
| 9 | Maybe it has something to do with the curious outlook he had on life . |
| 10 | One view is that it has something to do with the energy , drive and willingness to take risks associated ( in the ‘ up ’ phase , at least ) with traits underlying manic-depression . |
| 11 | The juxtaposition is not perhaps entirely self-explanatory , but it has something to do with art and out appreciation of it . |
| 12 | I suppose it has something to do with the feeling that what came out of America tended to operate at either of two levels . |
| 13 | Lamb is the Easter dish , just about everywhere , and — like geese at Christmas — it has something to do with when sheep fail to practise safe sex . |
| 14 | It has something to do with the extent of a pupil 's knowledge ; for example , anyone giving 50 feet as the height of a door can not know very much about the size of a foot . |
| 15 | It has something to do with the distinction between service industries and service occupations . |
| 16 | ‘ You think it has something to do with his murder ? ’ he asked pointedly , narrowing his eyes . |
| 17 | ‘ It has something to do with Daine , and the way he ran the City . |
| 18 | ‘ It has something to do with all these lives . |
| 19 | It has something to do with grapes . |
| 20 | It has something to do with a person 's occupation , the control and autonomy a person has , the amount of training required in order to do a particular job , the way occupation shapes life chances , income , style of life , the kind of social activities engaged in , the prestige a particular occupation attracts from others , and may be more . |
| 21 | It 's not easy to predict why shame should operate one way or , or another and although it has something to do with the superego , you ca n't just say well the superego is er purely the result of erm of , of socialization , if you have strict parents you have a strict superego , it 's not that simple . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 23 | Swiftly , she swallowed her ire and , taking a steadying breath , ‘ Well , ’ she began , ‘ so far as I know — and I could be wrong — I believe it has something to do with years back when a tradesman was dismissed , he would pack his tools in the sack he carried them in , and walk off the job . ’ |
| 24 | Well I suppose it has something to do with people 's expectations of themselves . |
| 25 | Could it have something to do with Evelyn ? |
| 26 | It had something to do with the black market and ration-books and the Men From The Ministry . |
| 27 | It had something to do with history and the past , that excitement , and something to do with potential as well , with what Orwell or somebody had said , that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer 's day . |
| 28 | I knew it had something to do with weddings ! |
| 29 | Originally , the abridged talk in Davis 's recording had seemed to be a sensible compromise , yet looking back I can see that it had something to do with the partial dissatisfaction expressed in my review of the reissue : ‘ the total effect is more of a divertissement than of opéra-comique ’ . |
| 30 | He would n't go into details over the phone but he said it had something to do with Bernard . |