Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] nothing [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brief memories written for R. L. Watson in the late 1940s by the poet 's second and third brothers say nothing about this period . |
| 2 | John is convinced visitors bring nothing but good to York . |
| 3 | The judges know nothing about any will of the people except in so far as that will is expressed by an Act of Parliament , and would never suffer the validity of a statute to be questioned on the ground of its having been passed or kept alive in opposition to the wishes of the electors . ’ |
| 4 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 5 | The front bed needles are all knitting , but the back bed needles do nothing at all . |
| 6 | Some hon. Members from Newcastle and Teesside have nothing but ill to say about development corporations . |
| 7 | So the Inland Revenue gets a bonus the company gets a claw-back and the members get nothing at all . |
| 8 | Police know nothing of any accident . |
| 9 | Last May he said he wanted to see the TV soap opera banned because ‘ children learn nothing from these junk programmes which dull their senses making teachers ’ jobs even harder . ’ |
| 10 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 11 | In particular , it is necessary to go beyond the examples of close relationships to political parties to consider whether the positions some groups enjoy in relation to the political system owe nothing to particular party allegiances . |
| 12 | The two cases have nothing in common . |
| 13 | Their activities have nothing at all to do with sport and everything to do with telephone-number betting . |