Example sentences of "[adv] nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon nothing in the world existed but the heat of their bodies and the fiery threads that seemed to connect her skin to her innermost core . |
| 2 | His expression was strangely shuttered , however , giving away nothing of the thoughts behind those grey eyes and the low , brooding brows . |
| 3 | Yeah , yeah except that that is just nothing in the end . |
| 4 | And still nothing from the Consulate . |
| 5 | Still nothing from the Conference Office . |
| 6 | He then goes on to declare that ‘ as the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operation on the stomach ’ , so sweetness and whiteness are ‘ but the effects of the operations of manna by the motion , size , and figure of its particles on the eyes and palate ’ . |
| 7 | He had built it out of practically nothing for the local amateur dramatic society and it had sat resplendently on the stage like something fetched straight from the nearest wood , so real , yet with touches of the bizarre , so brown , so greyish , so admired , so solid . |
| 8 | There 's practically nothing between the residence of South Milford and the horizon with the exception of this hundred foot mound that will exist . |
| 9 | But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again . |
| 10 | It would appear that this parental love exists throughout the animal kingdom , including homo sapiens , in degrees of intensity varying from near nothing to the immeasurably great . |
| 11 | Now she knew that there was probably nothing on the other side . |
| 12 | Certainly nothing in the recent history , and very probably nothing in the ancient history , of what were once the prerogative writs , has been seen to match this stream of applications . |
| 13 | But now nothing on the political-economic front is as clear-cut as it used to be . |
| 14 | There is now nothing of the kind . |
| 15 | I have argued that correctionalism is no more inherently flawed than any other starting assumption ( including ‘ appreciation ’ ) that the alleged functions of crime are a myth , and that socialist anti-correctionalism is really nothing of the sort , but an argument about the nature of officially defined crime ( though it rightly draws attention to the fact that correctionalism can not justifiably avoid such an argument ) . |
| 16 | In the end he presents it as a solution to the problem which he had been set but it is really nothing of the sort . |
| 17 | In that case he might offer his decision as a surprising interpretation " of the statute or precedent when it is really nothing of the kind . |
| 18 | Surely nothing in the world could be more tragic than that ? |
| 19 | Dawson 's achievement owed virtually nothing to the academic world , apart from a short part-time lectureship in the history of culture at the University College in Exeter ( 1925–33 ) . |
| 20 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |
| 21 | This is unlikely I admit , but , should it happen , virtually nothing in the Known World could withstand it . |
| 22 | Over the past 10 years we have already come from a situation where road runners were getting virtually nothing from the sport , to a far more respected and well-provided role . ’ |
| 23 | Definitely crossword time , I 've got ta have a go at it but there 's not a lot left in there nothing in the teapot |
| 24 | There is almost nothing about the artist 's contemporaries . |
| 25 | They tell us almost nothing about the labourers employed by the more prosperous peasants . |
| 26 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 27 | However , they have said very little about the membership or the nature of political argument within the Britons or the IFL , and almost nothing on the most important of the extreme anti-semitic organizations , the NL , and its guiding spirit , Archibald H. Maule Ramsay MP . |
| 28 | In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage . |
| 29 | That at least was an attitude that owed almost nothing to the Civil Service . |
| 30 | Quite simply , until the 1980s , the scientific community knew almost nothing of the way of living of these chimpanzees . |