Example sentences of "[conj] say nothing [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor .
2 Only the youngest brother , Goiko , kept his word and said nothing of the matter to his wife .
3 Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin .
4 The highway development survey commissioned for Greater London in 1936 , and carried out by Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edward Lutyens , addressed the problem of the flow of commercial traffic in London , but said nothing about the reduction of central area congestion nor about the relation between traffic circulation , land use or environmental design .
5 Like some of your more illustrious colleagues ( Ron Atkinson , Graham Taylor , etc. ) , you have a tendency to say a lot but to say nothing at the same time .
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