Example sentences of "nothing at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was even more important to know when evil gods would be in charge so as to avoid trouble as far as possible by doing nothing at such times . |
| 2 | It was pitch dark in the stable and , even with the burning sticks of jharo we 'd brought from upstairs , we could see nothing at first . |
| 3 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 4 | He knew that the platform was there , but in the nightside blackness he could see nothing at first . |
| 5 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 6 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |
| 7 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 8 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 9 | Never fear , messieurs , we shall have this mystery solved in time of nothing at all . |
| 10 | This person claims to be a great detective and yet he has detected nothing , nothing at all . |
| 11 | There could be as many more — dozens more — about whom she knew absolutely nothing at all . |
| 12 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 13 | She walked on and on , imagining herself utterly alone wearing nothing at all . |
| 14 | Not so High Rocks , whose owners have steadily raised their admission charges in the last few years , threatened climbers with access restrictions , and put nothing at all back into the maintenance of the rocks , save to enclose them in a sturdy , reinforced fence . |
| 15 | Nevertheless he was a most intelligent ad gifted ma , even , so to say , a scholar , though , as far as his scholarship was concerned , well , in a word , his scholarship did n't amount to much , to nothing at all I think . |
| 16 | He went on to say that there was nothing at all from the last decade for which he could give Mrs Thatcher credit . |
| 17 | We know of innumerable kinds of things that could not possibly be the answer to our question ; we know , then , what God is not , but nothing at all of what God is . |
| 18 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 19 | But he said nothing at all . |
| 20 | Nothing at all . |
| 21 | Nothing at all but three things |
| 22 | But a new note has surfaced , a note which points out that while philosophical scepticism may have nourished and stimulated the mind of Greeks trained in civic religious observances , it was not nourishing to modern minds trained on nothing at all . |
| 23 | Levine contends that these tracts , even as they confidently sermonize on the fixed nature of identity , especially gender identity as prescribed by God and signified through dress difference , display a deep anxiety that identity is not fixed ; that , underneath , the self is really nothing at all ( ‘ Men in Women 's Clothing ’ , 126 and 128 ) . |
| 24 | It was as if nothing at all had happened . |
| 25 | They 'd dress up then and go out to dinner to some restaurant , laughing and talking together as if nothing at all had happened . ’ |
| 26 | Unfortunately I could do nothing at all . |
| 27 | Price : £108,994 0–60mph : 6.5secs 30–70mph : 6.1secs 30–50 in 4th : 2.4secs Top Speed : 143mph Overall MPG : 15.1 Citation : For putting the fight back into Bentley and creating a form of transport that wants for nothing at all |
| 28 | All received reduced winter wages with eleven given nothing at all . |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing , nothing at all . |
| 30 | Nothing , nothing at all . ’ |