Example sentences of "nothing in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is therefore nothing in the Order which renders the lease unlawful and invalid . |
| 2 | They had seen no tracks and sighted nothing in the land below them , which Ratagan said was unusual for deer were not uncommon here as well as hill foxes and hares . |
| 3 | There was nothing in the presentation of the story to suggest that the allegations were untrue . |
| 4 | Nothing in the logic of the situation requires that it should always be the theory that is rejected on the occasion of a clash with observation . |
| 5 | Nothing in the system tells the operator when he has reached the desired temperature ; he can influence the temperature but he has no direct means of knowing the result . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's nothing in the passage , so that means a dead puppy , I 'm afraid . |
| 7 | There is nothing in the event which is necessarily traceable to a divine source and nothing which proves the system of doctrines and revelations that we call religion . |
| 8 | Rules , in substance the same as those relating to solicitors ' accounts , and those concerning the permitted name of the firm and the need for proper supervision of offices , apply equally to overseas as to domestic practices , subject generally to the caveat that nothing in the Law Society 's Rules will override particular duties imposed on practitioners by the local law . |
| 9 | Well , there 's nothing , as I understand it there is nothing in the Law Society guidelines but there are certainly references in the professional conduct guidelines which Mr has referred to in the course of this report er which referred to the extent of solicitors in the situation . |
| 10 | Finally , Article 13 provided that nothing in the Convention was to be construed as preventing service ‘ by any method provided for by the law of the state of origin and not forbidden by the law of the other state , or by any method provided for in any agreement between the States concerned ’ . |
| 11 | There was nothing in the Bill which was in any way dramatic or spectacular , he said , rather it was the culmination of much work and thought over many years by people inside and outside the House who were concerned with the problems of crime and punishment and penal treatment generally . |
| 12 | Make no mistake : nothing in the Bill will safeguard the interests of the employees of the Scottish Bus Group after it has been broken up and sold of , perhaps to the highest bidders . |
| 13 | Nothing in the Bill guarantees that management and employees bids will be successful . |
| 14 | There is nothing in the Bill which gives the slightest safeguard against that sort of asset stripping by the same companies to which sections of the National Bus Company were sold . |
| 15 | The Minister will have to agree that nothing in the Bill would stop whoever buys Eastern Scottish from selling the St. Andrews square bus station a fortnight later for El 5 million or thereabouts . |
| 16 | Asset strippers and property developers are extremely interested in the property assets of bus companies , and nothing in the Bill would exclude them from bidding for bus companies . |
| 17 | I can reassure my hon. Friend that nothing in the Bill will make that sort of rationalisation necessary . |
| 18 | However , nothing in the Bill would relieve British Rail of that burden , which costs in excess of £40 million a year . |
| 19 | Nothing in the whole of her life had ever given her so much pleasure as this . |
| 20 | ‘ Nothing in the King 's regulations against using commonsense , ’ remarks the Cockney in the group that 's been persuaded to dump their official load and carry the machines through war-battered France . |
| 21 | Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency . |
| 22 | I can detect nothing in the evidence , even on the debtor 's version , to suggest that Marshalls misled or took advantage of him in any way . |
| 23 | Dimensions meant nothing in the Darkness , but it stretched its tail across the shadows , and thrust its snout towards the light . |
| 24 | She could make out nothing in the darkness at the beginning except a jumble of bric-a-brac and the outline of a colossal eagle crucified on one wall . |
| 25 | He could make out nothing in the darkness around the car . |
| 26 | ‘ But there is nothing in the dish , ’ Mark pointed out . |
| 27 | and you 've no re no hang ups , no responsibilities , nothing in the sign . |
| 28 | Nothing in the Queen 's Speech can offer better prospects It says that the Government will promote training , but they have cut it . |
| 29 | Comrade Preobrazhensky preaches abstraction from politics but in point of fact , apart from politics , there is absolutely nothing in the work . |
| 30 | There is nothing in the epilogue to justify the attribution of the Pactus Legis Salicae to Clovis , or to any other other early Merovingian king . |