Example sentences of "nothing [det] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the fantastic win at Sandwich in 1975 in the PGA Championship , when Arnold shot a 71 in a howling wind , hitting nothing much but 5-irons low and flat , the 1970s and 1980s have been quieter years — a bit easier , not so much pressure . |
| 2 | I need it like nothing else-more than food , drink , art , everything . |
| 3 | Paviour greeted the visitor with immaculate politeness , but a certain air of acid disapproval which might well have stemmed from nothing more than nervousness . |
| 4 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 5 | She had repeatedly told herself her response to his touch was nothing more than a temporary aberration on her part , that familiarity must inevitably breed contempt , that sooner or later she would feel nothing more than irritation . |
| 6 | The crude belief that a service economy is nothing more than McDonald 's writ large is correctly dismantled . |
| 7 | Using nothing more than precision machining methods , and without any change to dimensions or specifications , small machine tool maker Leland and Faulconer increased engine output by 23 per cent . |
| 8 | There are terrorists who want nothing more than publicity . |
| 9 | Even so , at the end , Irish were a enjoying a romp to hearten supporters who love nothing more than spirit and graft . |
| 10 | Yet the gaudy boxes hold nothing more than wheat , rice , maize and oats . |
| 11 | Exhibiting nothing more than competence , he became keeper of the great wardrobe on 27 June 1369 , at the time when Edward III , and hence his court and government , were lapsing into passivity . |
| 12 | In most cases having a piped water supply means nothing more than stand-pipes set up here and there from which water has to be carried to the houses . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |
| 14 | A daily diet consisting of nothing more than bread and sultana water ( a drink made with coffee bean husks ) is commonplace . |
| 15 | A common criticism is that their ‘ telepathy ’ is nothing more than mumbo-jumbo covering the clever ‘ detective ’ work of extracting clues and information from their naive victims . |
| 16 | So images of organizations that are more like symphony orchestras or hospitals or the British Raj are surely nothing more than metaphors to express a desired feeling of togetherness — the togetherness produced by a conductor 's baton , the shared concern of doctors and nurses for their patients , or the apparent unity of the British civil service in India . |
| 17 | Impassioned sequences in which the " poetry " consisted of nothing more than strings of synonyms were merely the extreme example of a tendency that was apparent throughout the work . |
| 18 | From Britain , Hitler wanted nothing more than neutrality . |
| 19 | It 's about time somebody killed this ‘ debate ’ dead in its tracks , even if it meant stating the obvious ; that postmodernism is nothing more than Situationism without the socialism , the archetypal assimilation of revolutionary technique and terminology . |
| 20 | This led to nothing more than Morrissey 's former headmaster making a radio appearance wherein he spoke briefly in defence of the education system before recalling proud remembrances of his former pupil . |
| 21 | We can hope for nothing more than speculation when the events we are talking about took place four billion years ago and took place , moreover , in a world that must have been radically different from that which we know today . |
| 22 | Determined to let Rune 's volatile lover know the truth — that , far from being lovers themselves , she and Rune were nothing more than strangers linked by a common family crisis — she began firmly , ‘ Look , Lotta — there 's something you should know . |
| 23 | The French mathematician Descartes remarked on the similarity between this sort of toy and the behaviour of animals , arguing that the latter were nothing more than automatons whose reactions were constantly triggered by events in the environment ( Jeannerod 1985 ) . |
| 24 | Rachel and Nicky love getting up to their elbows in gloop , a slimy mixture of nothing more than cornflour mixed with water and food colouring . |
| 25 | These securities and the interest they collect are notional : they amount to nothing more than claims on the taxes and loans that the Treasury will have to raise when they are redeemed . |
| 26 | Some theologians have suggested that the essence of the gospel is nothing more than forgiveness as it is enshrined in the story of the prodigal Son . |
| 27 | If it does nothing more than act as an educational lubricant or leaven , it serves its purpose well , by enriching minds , broadening outlooks , removing prejudice and opening vistas . |
| 28 | But when he had asked her to marry him , she had declined out of nothing more than pique . |
| 29 | Notice that the symbols unc are really nothing more than place markers . |
| 30 | The act of shipping the barley in Maynegrain was assumed to be sufficient to amount to conversion , but the position is different where the defendant innocently interferes with P 's goods whether upon his own initiative or upon the instructions of another , when the defendant 's act amounts to nothing more than transport or custody of the goods . |