Example sentences of "had [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Athenian alliance had little to fear from the Persians in the years immediately after its formation . |
| 2 | While dairy farmers had little to fear from the current round of GATT trade proposals now nearing formal agreement , he insisted that UK milk producers must be alive to threat that the inevitable ‘ son of GATT ’ could mean quota cutbacks of 20 to 25pc by the year 2000 or 2005 . |
| 3 | The third reason why Dzerzhinsky was sent off to distant Siberia was purely political , and had little to do with the railways . |
| 4 | It had little to do with the real Queen Anne architecture of the early eighteenth century , but merely borrowed some of its features , such as , here at Linkenholt : the thick glazing bars on the dormer windows , the shell-shaped pediment over the central dormer , and the gently hipped roof lines . |
| 5 | While the Anglo-American partnership was vital but unequal in maintaining the First and Second Pillars of grand strategy , Britain was expected to go it alone in supporting the Third Pillar , which was an essentially British requirement that had little to do with the Americans or the North Atlantic Alliance . |
| 6 | But the caps , floors , collars and other fancy products traded by Hammersmith had little to do with the council 's debt : they were sheer punts on interest rates or , indeed , evasions of central-government borrowing limits . |
| 7 | It had little to do with The Smiths . |
| 8 | The original plans were made by Telford ( q.v. ) though he had little to do with the canal 's construction . |
| 9 | This had little to do with the computer but it did spur us into action . |
| 10 | The South-West of England suffered in 1942 an intensive bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe that really had little to do with the War . |
| 11 | Conflict of interest is rarely emphasised in the eighteenth century , however , and there can be little doubt that many customs officers held their posts for sound business reasons which had little to do with the remuneration offered by the crown . |
| 12 | Well they are simply the most direct spontaneous images drawn from his personal drama , which had little to do with the war . |
| 13 | While psychoanalysis itself probably had little to do with the decline in accepted religious belief , its early popularizes only benefited from it . |
| 14 | Speculation now had little to do with the real progress of companies : the buying and selling of shares had become an end in itself . |
| 15 | This experience showed that the problems of many families had little to do with the actual wartime conditions which were only an additional stress for families already overwhelmed by financial , housing and emotional problems of their own . |
| 16 | Nothing in particular , just a yawning emptiness , a cold chilling air which had little to do with the ice and snow outside . |
| 17 | There was a period of about twenty years when I had little to do with the club . |
| 18 | Like boxers in a ring , they confronted one another , only the contest had little to do with the pugilistic art . |
| 19 | Munson , whose previous first team outings had been confined to a handful of pre-season friendlies , may well get his chance of a Football League debut before the end of the season , but had little to do against the Norwegian Division Three champions . |
| 20 | On the legal substance of the case , the House of Lords had little to add to the principles on which they had decided Express Newspapers v. McShane . |
| 21 | While the churches had little to offer to the UDC , the women 's movement was important from the outset . |
| 22 | The former world champion had saved four match points in rallying from 2–5 in the fourth set , which he eventually won on a tie-break , before winning the fifth set 6–0 but he had little to offer in the doubles , when he and Eric Jelen were beaten in straight sets . |
| 23 | In 1752 he prepared a catalogue of the contents of his Mill Hill garden and later had this bound with the seventh edition of the Dictionary where he made his own marginal notes on items of interest , including remarkable first flowerings in Britain . |
| 24 | Literature on the subject has chiefly been critical ; for example , in a special review of the world press in 1973 , The Times of London had this to say about the African press in what was a uniformly gloomy and disapproving report : |
| 25 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 26 | A member of our group had this to say about the writing of this paper : ‘ It will be worth doing if it gets read by a lot of people . |
| 27 | Ronnie Cairns , Head of Standards at Scottish Enterprise , had this to say about the three organisations ' joint commitment to quality : |
| 28 | Michael had this to say about the inaccessibility to the general public of recent contemporary music . |
| 29 | IWM 's Bevis Griffiths supervised the conservation work on the Firefly , and had this to say of the professional/volunteer team used to restore Z2033 : ‘ The Museum require volunteers for this sort of work because we have some seventy aircraft here at Duxford and six [ full-time ] technicians to look after them , which in anybody 's book is a huge workload , so we work alongside the volunteers . |
| 30 | The Puritan Elizabethan clergyman , George Gifford , ’ had this to say on the typical witchcraft setting : |