Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admiration has nothing at all to do with — falling in love , that sort of thing . |
| 2 | The squirrel has nothing on this : |
| 3 | WHEN it comes to press manipulation , the Ministry of Defence has nothing on Apple Corporation , maker of the famous Apple microcomputer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The national curriculum has nothing on her |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , but the term means nothing to me . |
| 11 | ‘ Religion means nothing to me , Mr Collins . |
| 12 | The Labour Club does nothing about it all . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Great-gran knows nothing of the kind ; not how you bath her . |
| 15 | The case says nothing about other restaurants , but there are almost bound to be more in a city centre location . |
| 16 | ( Horace in any case says nothing about " the shades " at this point . ) |
| 17 | ( 3 ) On the other hand , if the buyer says nothing about his future intentions this may merely serve to fuel rumours that a full bid is to be expected . |
| 18 | Moreover , the measure says nothing about how the wealth is distributed ; a country could raise its GNP by expanding capital intensive industries which leave the poorest sectors of that society completely untouched . |
| 19 | The Hampton Court maze has nothing on this lot . |
| 20 | ‘ It is not the same if you know that what you are drinking has nothing in it . ’ |
| 21 | The aunts are too busy criticising each other 's cooking to notice the small skirmish taking place up front : Jacob wrestling with the angel has nothing on several stone of reluctant Rosenbloom wrestling with an invisible me . |
| 22 | The balance sheets of public sector organizations are not relevant for making judgements about creditworthiness anyway , so the consolidation adds nothing in this respect . |
| 23 | Even if a Black girl has nothing on her , it frightens her to death . |
| 24 | Sometimes you find the panel , but it does n't open ; sometimes it opens , and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton . |
| 25 | In the warm afternoon shade the scene says nothing to me . |
| 26 | Sovereignty says nothing about the state one lives in , whether it is a democracy or an autocracy , but it means constitutional independence . |
| 27 | Overall , the south presents nothing like as bleak a picture for Congress as the north , at this stage of the campaign . |
| 28 | ‘ If your marriage means nothing to you , Harvey , ’ she said , ‘ then your self-respect should . |
| 29 | Bachelor means nothing without Husband or Father . |
| 30 | Rather than learning that ‘ nothing bad ’ follows a non-reinforced stimulus , the animal might learn that the stimulus predicts nothing at all , that the stimulus is not correlated with another event . |