Example sentences of "nothing to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Once you 've paid your $399 , you are a ‘ non-revenue passenger ’ , worth nothing to the airline . |
| 5 | His intelligence owed nothing to the college . |
| 6 | This is true but Hong Kong form means nothing to the average punter . |
| 7 | The White House denounced the charge as ‘ completely scurrilous and irresponsible ’ , adding : ‘ There is absolutely nothing to the allegations . ’ |
| 8 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 9 | THE FLOW of cards and bouquets was nothing to the stream of very important people arriving at No 10 Downing Street yesterday . |
| 10 | One farmer claimed he would do nothing to the buildings until his son had been confirmed in the tenancy . |
| 11 | At one extreme were those so inert , so withdrawn into themselves , that they gave out nothing to the young . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the other hand , Chain and Florey were armed with apparatus which means little or nothing to the layman . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I listened to one choral song from Southwark Cathedral , prayers were said for a family whose names would mean nothing to the vast majority of listeners . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It would appear that this parental love exists throughout the animal kingdom , including homo sapiens , in degrees of intensity varying from near nothing to the immeasurably great . |
| 18 | Africa , South America and Australia appear to have contributed little or nothing to the pedigree cat world . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Indeed , it adds next to nothing to the caption . |
| 22 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 23 | She was still on a ‘ high ’ , the potent adrenalin pumping through her veins , eyes sparkling , cheeks glowing with a becoming flush that owed nothing to the skilfully applied make-up . |
| 24 | ‘ The Mamelukes did nothing to the hurt of Kyrenia , because the King stopped them . |
| 25 | Her feet and hands were so cold they did n't seem to belong to her , but that was nothing to the coldness inside . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Were nothing to the upset |
| 28 | ‘ Now we 'll say nothing to the others about your little affair , ’ Sarah cautioned when Charlotte had left the room . |
| 29 | But these are nothing to the disadvantages I see to just living with a man . |
| 30 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |