Example sentences of "be nothing [vb pp] for " in BNC.

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1 The committee reported in February 1943 in very alarming language that there would be nothing left for the British postwar aircraft industry unless something were done at once .
2 One problem which such an approach may pose is that there may be nothing left for special treatment .
3 Certainly I have had it said to me by grieving , often very elderly , people : ‘ There 's nothing left for me now , I just want to be with my husband .
4 ‘ There 's nothing left for you here .
5 There 's nothing left for you here , nothing but misery .
6 ‘ There 's nothing left for Hareton to inherit !
7 There 's , there 's nothing left for anything other than to eat !
8 Sometimes it gets to me , I give so much time and energy to everyone else , that there is nothing left for me .
9 There is nothing left for it but to lie its head off until Polling Day is past …
10 When the decisions of all market participants dovetail completely , so that each plan correctly assumes the corresponding plans of the other participants and no possibility exists for any altered plans that would be simultaneously preferred by the relevant participants , there is nothing left for the entrepreneur to do .
11 After writing off an £819,000 investment in an unquoted company , there is nothing left for a dividend for the third year running .
12 In desperation she picked up the paper and turned to the TV guide , but there was nothing scheduled for the early-evening spot apart from game shows .
13 There was nothing left for me now — nothing .
14 Whitlock smiled politely , his mind still reeling from the way she had dissected his cover story , piece by piece , until there was nothing left for him to hide behind .
15 She ate without comment but there was nothing left for the dogs .
16 I 'm we knew very well she was but there was nothing left for her you know .
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