Example sentences of "[verb] nothing to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the illustration contributes nothing to the text , which runs ‘ Edward [ actually Edgar ! ] lightly sprung aside and avoided the cut aimed at him , and then delivered a blow with all his force just in front of the ear , and the man dropped again as if shot . ’ |
| 2 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 3 | But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) . |
| 4 | Fiery criticism of the British press then followed from Bernard , with Laura contributing nothing to the debate . |
| 5 | Thus the dilemma of the polluting industry is that controlling pollution is expensive , but adds nothing to the value of the goods produced , and is bad business for any firm whose main concern is to maintain profitability in a competitive situation . ’ |
| 6 | But as Cohen suggests , echoing Miller 's point , there are also cases where an individualist account adds nothing to the explanation . |
| 7 | This helps to explain why they do not publish consolidated opening statements : ‘ cost of the services of the organization ’ adds nothing to the fund operating statements ; the measure of performance has no meaning ; and , of course , there are no balances included to be carried forward to the new year which are not included in the balance sheet . |
| 8 | The Chief Justice said that exclusion depended on all the circumstances : here the interview was conducted with propriety and the solicitor would have added nothing to the knowledge the detainee already had about his rights . |
| 9 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 10 | What they will do is give the GPs a role to play in allocating resources to the hospital services and will contribute nothing to the delivery of better VFM within the family practitioner services . |
| 11 | In becoming anorexic , I was saying to those who were in effect my social superiors , ‘ I can contribute nothing to the community ; look how little I have/am . ’ |
| 12 | Marcella Tate came to the Incident Room and made her statement which added nothing to the sum of their knowledge . |
| 13 | But Araminta is given a curious grace of movement and a gift for surprising which , as they owe nothing to the intellect , must have been excessively difficult to achieve . |
| 14 | The offended looks of the muzzy black citoyen who is put in to own Salim 's store when trade is politicised are funny , and important , and owe nothing to the Aeneid . |
| 15 | In casual , chatty tones , she told me that " my news " had n't penetrated to her Surrey retreat , and in fact had n't reached her until an hour ago when she 'd arrived , having had nothing to the contrary since last year , to keep the traditional family tryst at my father 's house . |
| 16 | My feelings about the book were positive rather than the reverse , but I complained in my review that it was studded with references to fashionable French gurus that were purely cosmetic , adding nothing to the author 's argument . |
| 17 | Later abolitionists , most notably Thomas Mathiesen , have argued that only ‘ negative ’ reforms ( changes that may reduce the debit side of the prison 's legitimacy but add nothing to the credit side ) be encouraged . |
| 18 | The dramatic political and diplomatic developments of 1988 — of more importance to the achievement of a substantive peace than anything else since 1967 — owed nothing to the peace process . |
| 19 | Taking all of these courts and their personnel , bailies , clerks and procurators-fiscal , a great landowner like the Duke of Montrose was able to oblige a considerable number of his friends with offices which owed nothing to the Government . |
| 20 | His intelligence owed nothing to the college . |
| 21 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
| 22 | They played , slowly at first , then faster , Tuan Ti Fo giving nothing to the boy , punishing him for every mistake he made . |
| 23 | But the name meant nothing to the visitor ; obviously his fame had not penetrated the student community . |
| 24 | If you say , ‘ Well , of course , yes , I can easily explain that , but basically we 'll transfer the the , the handling of the enquiry to A Department , which of course has responsibility to B , but B ca n't do that without C , ’ you have to know in your own organization that that 's the way the procedure works , but it will mean nothing to the listener . |
| 25 | ‘ The Mamelukes did nothing to the hurt of Kyrenia , because the King stopped them . |
| 26 | Not only does the picture add nothing to the text but it also does n't convey as much about the incident as the text . |
| 27 | And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’ |
| 28 | History means nothing to the English . |
| 29 | But that means nothing to the army of unemployed and to threatened companies which would rather have any work than none , or to politicians caught up in righteous anger at ‘ unfair ’ competition . |
| 30 | It was an exchange of literary gossip , having to do with the finances of writing , and the ‘ ghosting ’ of the Marlborough memoirs , and would have meant nothing to the dancing , chattering folk in Raasay House . |