Example sentences of "[adv] nothing [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon nothing in the world existed but the heat of their bodies and the fiery threads that seemed to connect her skin to her innermost core . |
| 2 | His expression was strangely shuttered , however , giving away nothing of the thoughts behind those grey eyes and the low , brooding brows . |
| 3 | Yeah , yeah except that that is just nothing in the end . |
| 4 | And still nothing from the Consulate . |
| 5 | Still nothing from the Conference Office . |
| 6 | He then goes on to declare that ‘ as the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operation on the stomach ’ , so sweetness and whiteness are ‘ but the effects of the operations of manna by the motion , size , and figure of its particles on the eyes and palate ’ . |
| 7 | There 's practically nothing between the residence of South Milford and the horizon with the exception of this hundred foot mound that will exist . |
| 8 | But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again . |
| 9 | There is now nothing of the kind . |
| 10 | In that case he might offer his decision as a surprising interpretation " of the statute or precedent when it is really nothing of the kind . |
| 11 | I have argued that correctionalism is no more inherently flawed than any other starting assumption ( including ‘ appreciation ’ ) that the alleged functions of crime are a myth , and that socialist anti-correctionalism is really nothing of the sort , but an argument about the nature of officially defined crime ( though it rightly draws attention to the fact that correctionalism can not justifiably avoid such an argument ) . |
| 12 | In the end he presents it as a solution to the problem which he had been set but it is really nothing of the sort . |
| 13 | Surely nothing in the world could be more tragic than that ? |
| 14 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |
| 15 | Over the past 10 years we have already come from a situation where road runners were getting virtually nothing from the sport , to a far more respected and well-provided role . ’ |
| 16 | Definitely crossword time , I 've got ta have a go at it but there 's not a lot left in there nothing in the teapot |
| 17 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 18 | They tell us almost nothing about the labourers employed by the more prosperous peasants . |
| 19 | There is almost nothing about the artist 's contemporaries . |
| 20 | In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage . |
| 21 | Quite simply , until the 1980s , the scientific community knew almost nothing of the way of living of these chimpanzees . |
| 22 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 23 | The photograph confirmed that he had changed almost nothing in the hotel . |
| 24 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 25 | The shares were suddenly suspended , and returned , worth almost nothing in the form of an investment holding company with plans to bring a Harvard director Charles Mitchell , onto the board . |
| 26 | Maybe the Food Safety Bill will be useful damage-limitation : pre-empting public terror that almost nothing in the supermarket is safe to eat . |
| 27 | I do indeed think that we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus , since the early Christian sources show no interest in either , are moreover fragmentary and often legendary . |
| 28 | It very rarely happens that you take several fish in one period and then nothing for the remainder of the time you spend on the water . |
| 29 | There is therefore nothing in the Order which renders the lease unlawful and invalid . |
| 30 | I knew absolutely nothing about the Alexander Technique and viewed it with a certain amount of scepticism , but I felt I had nothing to lose . |