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

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1 There is little or nothing on the coloration of other everyday materials , such as leather and paper , nor is there any mention of non-substrate uses , such as in dye lasers or photovoltaic cells .
2 Africa , South America and Australia appear to have contributed little or nothing to the pedigree cat world .
3 In the south of England , Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey were affected to some extent — again much more in some parts than others — but the south-eastern corner of England owes little or nothing to the enclosure commissioners .
4 On the other hand , Chain and Florey were armed with apparatus which means little or nothing to the layman .
5 In the case of architecture it is the idea that is seminal — little or nothing of the form is taken over ; but in sculpture what was to become the dominant type of Greek statue through the archaic period , the naked young man , kouros , owes a direct debt to Egyptian models .
6 But the states for which the nineteenth century had been a success story , Germany and still more Great Britain , showed little or nothing of the desire for officially-backed dissemination of their culture and advertisement of their intellectual achievements which was so noticeable in France .
7 Little or nothing beyond the holding of a market distinguished the smallest towns from mere villages , for no small number contained not more than two or three hundred inhabitants .
8 ‘ When a woman 's lover says little or nothing between the sheets , she will feel unloved , ’ says Barbara DeAngelis in her book How To Make Love All The Time .
9 Members frequently make the comment that they know little or nothing about the structure of the IBOA , the decision-making process — in short how the IBOA operates .
10 She herself knew little or nothing about the organisation , and Donna wished she could have happened upon someone as knowledgeable on the subject as Mahoney had been .
11 They come with minds as empty as their notebooks , knowing little or nothing about the subject .
12 Although these techniques developed by Sibbald et al ( 25 ) using a computer programme to determine the optimum allocation of land to agriculture and forestry make it possible to reach a more objective decision about the allocation of land to agriculture or forestry in an integrated scheme we , as yet , know little or nothing about the impact of agriculture or forest development on rural communities .
13 We are also aware that for the majority of women , a visit to a car showroom or Service Department can be a difficult and sometimes downright unpleasant experience due to indifferent attitudes by some Sales/Service staff who are under the misguided impression that because you are female you know little or nothing about the motor car .
14 Critics pointed out that at the time of the White Paper and in the process of polytechnic designation there had been little or nothing in the shape of academic planning .
15 The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught .
16 The sort of windows that need little or nothing in the way of treatment are usually narrow slits of glass , small ovals , round , arched , stained and etched glass windows that only show a glimpse of the outside and are often unopenable anyway .
17 The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document .
18 My early assumptions as a reader were that black people signified little or nothing in the imagination of white American writers .
19 In the statement by Her Majesty 's Opposition , the Secretary of State heard a continuation of the velvet glove policy , which means , do little or nothing against the terrorist .
20 He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome .
21 You 'd think there 'd be fear that the ploughman would suffer damage among the horse 's hoofs , but such was the bond between them that nothing of the kind ever happened . ’
22 It soon became evident that nothing of the kind was forthcoming : the racist strictures of the War Office prevented promotional possibilities , blacks were not even allowed to join in combat with the enemy .
23 An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such .
24 But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity .
25 She said that nothing of the sort would ever happen in her country , that the British are quite civilized , thank you , and that they make the rest of the world seem simply barbaric .
26 Ace ducked , certain that Defries would land on top of her and then equally sure that nothing of the sort was about to happen .
27 ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who erects or installs any article for use at work in any premises where that article is to be used by persons at work to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that nothing about the way in which it is erected or installed makes it unsafe or a risk to health when properly used . ’
28 ‘ BAII has no knowledge of the circumstances leading to his arrest , and accordingly can make no comments , other than to state that nothing in the course of his employment has given rise to any question . ’
29 While stressing that nothing in the circular should be taken as condoning a wilful breach of planning law , there is a highly significant qualification :
30 It is unfortunate that the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , while expressing authorising service in a manner prescribed by the law of the foreign country , contains no provision corresponding to that in the English Rules of the Supreme Court that nothing in the Rules authorises or requires the doing in a foreign country of anything contrary to the law of that country ; the issue is referred to merely in the official commentary of the Advisory Committee and then only as affecting the chances of the recognition and enforcement in the foreign country of a judgment obtained in the United States .
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