Example sentences of "have [pron] [verb] with " in BNC.

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1 Without perception and inclination , reason has nothing to engage with ; when it does have them to engage with , it can criticize and guide .
2 Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time .
3 I suppose all this henthusiasm has nothing to do with the fact that he 's a very handsome young man , has it ? ’
4 There is no light and shade and this way of using the pointes has nothing to do with giving a finishing touch to such dances as those fur Petipa 's Aurora and the Six Fairies in The Sleeping Beauty to make them seem lighter than air .
5 He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly .
6 However , in the novel 's final text the shapka becomes a peaked cap ( kartuz ) and Shaposhnikov 's name gets changed to Shatov which has nothing to do with caps or hats at all .
7 This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog , or even whether dogs actually exist at all .
8 If Zapp believes that writing about literature has nothing to do with liking it , Swallow likes it all too much to be able to write about it :
9 Mr Georgiadis said : ‘ This murder has nothing to do with poachers , Ugandans , Somalians , Tanzanians or little green men from Mars …
10 The reason why I continue to believe that Heseltine 's best chance of getting the Tory leadership lies in the aftermath of an election defeat has nothing to do with inside knowledge .
11 The agent takes 15 per cent of the band 's earnings which has nothing to do with the band 's costs .
12 The executor has nothing to do with it !
13 The difference has nothing to do with the presence or absence of powerchords .
14 ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms .
15 The most important marketing device in the industry has nothing to do with skiing at all .
16 The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called .
17 So it should be clear that the separation of husband and wife has nothing to do with infertility of the woman .
18 Bad trainers now rule the market , but it has nothing to do with ‘ fashion ’ — it 's mass consumerism ( check Tony Wilson out in his Travel Fox ) .
19 Like Hannah she is angry at the ideal presented to her by the advertising world , as she feels it has nothing to do with her , yet still has the power to make her feel dissatisfied .
20 Yet I think there is a difference between the control of living systems and the stability of physical ones , which has nothing to do with the presence or absence of a controlling intelligence .
21 Of course the pineapple has nothing to do with pine trees and is not an apple ; yet it seems its English name is associated with pines .
22 It described extravagant Easter egg packaging as ‘ a gimmick which has nothing to do with protecting the contents , let alone Easter ’ .
23 Miss Lovich , 43 and living in Norfolk , was attracted to writing because ‘ it has nothing to do with what kind of hairstyle you have ’ .
24 For example , this free trade article has been wrongly used to draw up radical measures banning tobacco advertising , a matter which has nothing to do with free trade , and a pure case of Commission empire-building .
25 The Social Charter , for instance , has nothing to do with the single market .
26 Yet on any interpretation , the ‘ peoples of Europe ’ can never be restricted to the peoples of the European Community , and therefore the ‘ ever closer union ’ has nothing to do with the EC itself .
27 The much vaunted ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle has nothing to do with federalism as such and everything to do with Catholic social theory .
28 She insists on a dignity which has nothing to do with appearances .
29 ‘ Your age has nothing to do with it , ’ George said , and then remembered to add , ‘ Not that you look it . ’
30 Love … has nothing to do with sexual relations .
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