Example sentences of "they have [to-vb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrapped and cordless multifilaments , hybrids , notching — what do they have to do with how you hit a tennis ball ? |
| 2 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 3 | Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks . |
| 4 | And they sorted , they forward it I suppose or did whatever they had to do with it . |
| 5 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 6 | The Romans who settled on the banks of the Rivers Fleet and Thames , were not unopposed ; amongst other difficulties , they had to contend with Boadicea , the fierce lady leader of the local inhabitants . |
| 7 | How would hill-walkers cope these days , I wonder , if they had to contend with predatory wildlife as a natural part of mountaineering ? |
| 8 | In particular they had to deal with a fire-bomb that might get lodged on the roof . |
| 9 | They had to deal with more degrading things in their lives . |
| 10 | Deputy Chief executive Dominic Fitzpatrick confirms that the most difficult area they had to deal with over the last year has been the advertising element . |
| 11 | He says they had to deal with more serious injuries than usual and it 's down to the lack of rain . |
| 12 | There Was only one conclusion I could come to : heavier baits and indicators were too heavy for the bream to carry away with the bait sucked to the edge of their lips , so they had to grip with their lips to manage it . |
| 13 | They could n't be very quick because there was no electric light upstairs and they had to manage with the candle Carrie was holding . |
| 14 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 15 | In a survey by Childcare Vouchers of more than 400 working mothers , 72% of nanny-users said that childcare problems were among the most stressful they had to cope with . |
| 16 | There they had to cope with an IMF adjustment programme which involved savage public spending cuts . |
| 17 | In the latter they had to cope with de-skilling innovations in technology and organisation as well as with the effects of rapid population growth on the labour market . |
| 18 | In Khrushchev Remembers the misery of those telephoned summons to share Stalin 's nightly loneliness is vividly caught : the Westerns they had to watch with him , the dinners they had to endure with him , the drinking they had to keep up with him until breakfast time ( even Beria arranged to be given coloured water , until Stalin found out ) . |
| 19 | Here they had to part with their horses , for of course there could be accommodation for only a few animals in this castle itself . |
| 20 | They had to travel with civilian number plates on the Land Rover , with civilian papers , and out of uniform , so that their military connections would not be known . |
| 21 | In Khrushchev Remembers the misery of those telephoned summons to share Stalin 's nightly loneliness is vividly caught : the Westerns they had to watch with him , the dinners they had to endure with him , the drinking they had to keep up with him until breakfast time ( even Beria arranged to be given coloured water , until Stalin found out ) . |
| 22 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 23 | Users had to present their data in ways laid down by the DP department ; they found themselves bound by the DP department 's priorities rather than by their own ; and , in addition , they had to compete with colleagues for use of the computer 's facilities . |
| 24 | have it within their power to resolve the matter very speedily by going to the commission and providing full notification , even if they have to negotiate with the commission over provisions which the submission was moved , then they can get that exemption back dated and , and |
| 25 | At the end , I shall turn your attention to three accounts of the nature of consciousness by philosophers acquainted with AI , and contrast what they have to say with my own account . |
| 26 | But the more profiles are concerned with qualities of character and extra-curricular activities , the more intrusive of privacy they seem ; and , perhaps more relevant to the present enquiry , the less they have to do with the actual school curriculum . |
| 27 | Spoken dialogue being omitted , synopses are provided which make it absolutely impossible to tell where the musical numbers occur and what they have to do with the plot . |
| 28 | ‘ Constitutional matters do not have anything to do with being on speaking terms , they have to do with legal status . |
| 29 | They have to do with programming : French culture and communications ministers in the 1980S protested at US cultural imperialism -thus , over five years , during prime-time viewing , French-made programmes were allegedly down by 30 percent and American-made programmes up by 60 percent ; France is battling to win ‘ la guerre des images ’ — star wars waged via the TV set . |
| 30 | Whatever arguments there may be in favour of the independence of members of assemblies or parliaments , it is hard to see what they have to do with representation as it is commonly understood . |