Example sentences of "[verb] nothing about the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the official view in the Church cared nothing about the bishop in his function as apostolic teacher , anyone who was trained to teach had a duty to join the bishop 's bench if he were asked .
2 They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures .
3 Possibly because the French Federation may actually know nothing about the game .
4 The Director seemed to know nothing about the College .
5 Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music .
6 The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 .
7 He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes .
8 Mr Muawad has said nothing about the composition of his cabinet , but is expected to include Mr Selim el-Hoss , Prime Minister in a rival administration to Gen Aoun .
9 The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation .
10 The Bristol University graduate , the third-choice keeper until last night , did not put a hand , or foot , wrong and he could do nothing about the Spartak goals .
11 He would do nothing about the problem , and that is why he is unsuited to hold the office of Home Secretary .
12 Luckily a team of waiters offered a line of protection , though even they could do nothing about the way he was levelling those dark eyes at her as if with deliberate and enigmatic meaning .
13 Sherlock Holmes is a very clever detective , but he can do nothing about the weather .
14 Notice that the enzyme can do nothing about the difference , h , between the initial and final energy engineer can , by digging a tunnel , reduce the height to which one must climb to travel between them , but if there is a difference of altitude between the cities he can not alter it .
15 But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one .
16 Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion .
17 Even if there were regular hours , this says nothing about the intensity of labour .
18 This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau .
19 Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued .
20 In truth , the fact that a position of power might be attained as a result of ‘ private ’ contracting in itself says nothing about the legitimacy of the possession of that power , and hence even if the company could be explained in purely contractual terms this would , without more , have little impact on the question of the propriety of state intervention .
21 This version says nothing about the Israelites making a crossing .
22 Sovereignty says nothing about the state one lives in , whether it is a democracy or an autocracy , but it means constitutional independence .
23 As the actual cash payout varies according to the firm 's performance rather than changes in the long run payout ratio , the information content of dividends says nothing about the significance of the size of the payout ratio in the valuation of securities .
24 Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement .
25 It says nothing about the setting up of programmes of screening by invitation or the use of desk top analysers .
26 It is worth noting that the account of this case ( S 1454 ) says nothing about the production of a charter as evidence .
27 Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker .
28 If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing .
29 We are told nothing about the heir he instituted .
30 We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough .
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