Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few enjoy a personal pension very few enjoy an occupational scheme the greater majority gain nothing from SERPS only one in six receive a full state pension . |
| 2 | But the impact on the camp lacked nothing in effect on that account . |
| 3 | Admiration has nothing at all to do with — falling in love , that sort of thing . |
| 4 | The squirrel has nothing on this : |
| 5 | WHEN it comes to press manipulation , the Ministry of Defence has nothing on Apple Corporation , maker of the famous Apple microcomputer . |
| 6 | Unfortunately we have lost the delicate balance between these various elements : for instance , our Warrior has nothing worth fighting for and our Wild Man has been suppressed , and that 's why , as a gender we 're all so miserable . |
| 7 | The national curriculum has nothing on her |
| 8 | The neo-pagans say this is nonsense , their religion has nothing at all to do with the devil , because the devil is an invention of the Christians . |
| 9 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 10 | They remain different ways , because the institutions of natural science involve the practice of giving causal explanations with the aid of models and statistics , whereas those of religion involve nothing of the sort . |
| 11 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 12 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 13 | Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued . |
| 14 | Half the people in the study received nothing from a formal agency and the authors conclude that the Social Fund ‘ is largely irrelevant to most real-life situations within which the poorest people find themselves ’ . |
| 15 | In this speech , Mr Patten confirmed himself as the leading exponent in the Cabinet of a traditional Toryism owing nothing to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | The radicalism of his campaign for state investment owed nothing to latent dissent over economic theory , for neo-classical economics could accommodate public works and Keynes himself remained on orthodox disciple of Marshall . |
| 17 | Yet when he seeks refuge in history , other men 's deeds and words , Gerontion finds nothing with which he can connect , only vacancy , vanity , and inane deception : the emptiness of the uninspiring , fragment-bearing wind that blows through much of Eliot 's poetry . |
| 18 | Giving away 6lbs , Reg Hollinshead 's colt lost nothing in defeat , only buckling in the shadow of the post , having been under heavy pressure from well over a furlong out . |
| 19 | ‘ The castle fire brigade knew nothing about it , ’ said the source . |
| 20 | He listened out for the trickle of water , but the wind offered nothing but rustling grass , now very loud in his ears . |
| 21 | At the time , the term meant nothing to her , but she had been intrigued , read the references to the religious wars in the regional guide-book and mentally filed the information for future use . |
| 22 | The British Rail employee thought nothing of it . |
| 23 | Millions of pounds of investment meant nothing to Bedford-St Pancras commuters when their long-awaited new electric trains were laid up in the sidings while BR and the rail unions hammered each other over one-man operation . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , but the term means nothing to me . |
| 25 | ‘ Religion means nothing to me , Mr Collins . |
| 26 | The lawyer said nothing for a minute . |
| 27 | The Labour Club does nothing about it all . |
| 28 | The New Testament knows nothing of a separation of the individual from the Church ; to be a Christian is to belong to the body ; to be baptized into Christ is to be incorporated into his people . |
| 29 | ‘ Great-gran knows nothing of the kind ; not how you bath her . |
| 30 | The case says nothing about other restaurants , but there are almost bound to be more in a city centre location . |