Example sentences of "nothing [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying . |
| 2 | Expertise and experience count for nothing if a fighter is n't mentally prepared before he enters the ring . |
| 3 | Why have the Government learnt nothing from the experience , and why are they proposing to do nothing if a crisis emerges shortly , as it could ? |
| 4 | IMAGINATIVE design and meticulous production methods count for nothing if the floor layer gets it wrong . |
| 5 | Bringing back capital punishment would do nothing if the drug problem was not solved . |
| 6 | Bringing back capital punishment would do nothing if the drug problem was not solved . |
| 7 | Does the Minister agree that no matter what progress is made in energy efficiency — in Wales or in the west country , for example — it could all come to nothing if the Government press ahead and force British Gas to start up a new company for the transportation of gas through its pipelines ? |
| 8 | There is no evidence for this belief except one doubtful piece of hearsay ; but it is a first principle of modern reactions to Freud and psychoanalysis that facts count for nothing if the mythology is appealing enough . |
| 9 | Addressing the effect solves nothing if the cause remains . |
| 10 | , head of Thorntons ' commercial department , agreed : ‘ It 's not a matter of giving a ball-park figure and then saying nothing until the work is done before you reveal there were extra costs involved . |
| 11 | I ate nothing until the day arrived , and all morning I waited impatiently for the coach . |
| 12 | He said nothing until the machine was ready for take-off , moving forward to the main runway . |
| 13 | They heard nothing until the sound of the toilet flushing . |
| 14 | Do nothing until the replacement window is on site , then check the dimensions . |
| 15 | and would hang about for two or thr I mean when I was on the dredger them men would st they would come aboard the dredger and wait there , do nothing until the boat came up the river . |
| 16 | ‘ After Brian 's album had been recorded , a tour had been tentatively planned , but to have a band sitting around doing nothing until the album came out was n't realistic . |
| 17 | Not wishing to risk increasing instability , Franco adopted a familiar tactic : he did nothing until the panorama became clearer . |
| 18 | She was so wrapped up in the portrait that she heard nothing until the clink of glass told her she was not alone , and as she spun round she found Alain turning from pouring himself a drink . |
| 19 | It was here that the Caroline reformers achieved nothing because the crown could not recapture the powers it had made over to local municipal oligarchs . |
| 20 | " Our Tour officials just sit back and do nothing while a player is going downhill . |
| 21 | the lights dim to nothing while the sound of fighting continues . |
| 22 | The other schools have to share little or nothing while the city technology college gets the lot — and it is public money . |
| 23 | The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners ' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use . |
| 24 | However they received nothing when the cash distribution took place last week . |
| 25 | He sat in the back with him , for company , and chatted soothingly of nothing as the driver did the eight miles or so to Kirton , and swept into the riding-school yard . |
| 26 | He felt nothing as the angel bore him to the grave below , no pain as the solid granite drove shattered ribs deep into his lungs . |