Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 . |
| 2 | And there was nothing to connect the nights I shared with Jean-Claude with the afternoons I spent with Émile . |
| 3 | He did n't want everyone to see the marks of his sins . |
| 4 | Such poorly presented results do nothing to support the credibility ( and hence the funding ! ) of an interesting field which deserves more critical attention . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the films , which included Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ the Rye , did nothing to support the claims made for them . |
| 6 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 7 | Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Leicester , the midlands and elsewhere in the past 13 years , yet the Government have done nothing to support the industry . |
| 8 | Meeting the demand for veterinary surgeons for the army , while raising the social status of the young profession , did nothing to support the needs of agriculture . |
| 9 | The success of Never Mind the Bollocks did nothing to heal the rift rapidly developing in the Sex Pistols camp , between McLaren and the group , and among the members of the group themselves . |
| 10 | As it was then understood : here again , Cole 's problem is to reconcile a course seen by the Pioneers themselves as treasonable , with the fact that it foreshadowed the policy to be followed by successful Consumers ' Co-operation , that policy which for its purposes made co-operative production incidental and subordinate to it and which most certainly did nothing to promote the development of an industrial co-operative sector properly so-called . |
| 11 | When I spoke to the Conservative association in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency I heard only a litany of problems caused by the Labour-controlled council , which has done absolutely nothing to promote the area . |
| 12 | Decent , affordable public sector housing provides opportunities for wide ranges of people in our country and your government does nothing to promote the right to rent , the ability to get into decent housing where people otherwise would have no such chance . |
| 13 | Why does he just sit there and do absolutely nothing to combat the recession that his policies have caused ? |
| 14 | But when the Conservatives gained power they did nothing to implement the scheme . |
| 15 | ‘ If he was here today he would be urging everyone to support the research efforts of the Foundation . ’ |
| 16 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 17 | In the preview of the Slimline Pop-up Toaste r ( RRP £24.99 ) , despite the promise of the elaborate programme , there was an absolute dichotomy between singed bread and burnt offerings — no happy mean , nothing to sustain the gravitas of Oxford marmalade with its acerbic subtext , nor the more rechercheé exigencies of Gentlemen 's Relish . |
| 18 | As Fig. 3.6 shows , the change of context for the latter group did nothing to restore the ability of the stimuli to evoke the UR . |
| 19 | Old Mahu , the gatekeeper who had slept on the night of Mertseger 's disappearance , had been dismissed without a pension , but that action had done nothing to mollify the general 's conscience . |
| 20 | But she coaxed him along with her unwaveringly sympathetic smile , and he ordered everyone to dismantle the tables and re-set them . |
| 21 | It was rumoured that Laura had an eye for the men , which did nothing to consolidate the marriage , or to abate Woolridge 's white-hot temper , which was never far away . |
| 22 | The man representing the government washed his hands of responsibility , he could do nothing to meet the striker 's demands , he said , because Moscow would n't let him . |
| 23 | This policy of jobs at all costs is doing nothing to meet the needs of women . |
| 24 | There was nothing to distract the duchess from the inescapable fact that one 's stomach and hips had acquired that unfortunate texture halfway between a satsuma and a helping of lumpy school custard . |
| 25 | So English women went on being under-educated with nothing to counteract the filth and lies and daily racism of the English media . |
| 26 | First , it seems that preliminary exposure to the training context can enhance the magnitude of the latent inhibition effect , perhaps because it retards the development of context-specificity ( Hall and Channell 1985 c ) ; second , giving animals extensive exposure to the training context alone after they have experienced presentations of the target stimulus in that context does nothing to diminish the size of the latent inhibition effect ( e.g. Hall and Minor 1984 ) . |
| 27 | The passing centuries have done nothing to diminish the ardour of those ( including many foreign scholars ) tirelessly engaged in trying to hunt these manuscripts down . |
| 28 | But they did nothing to diminish the heat , seeming instead to enclose it and its still , threatening air under a thick muffling lid . |
| 29 | Certainly the ambience did nothing to diminish the quality of performance , especially from the Western Samoans , Koreans , and , above all , the Fijians . |
| 30 | The consortium described the agreement as " a back-handed deal " which did nothing to secure the future of the 2 per cent of lowland bogs which survive in England in a semi-natural state with rare plants and animals . |