Example sentences of "[coord] nothing in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My early assumptions as a reader were that black people signified little or nothing in the imagination of white American writers . |
| 6 | The management of the Company and the allotment , issue , holding , transfer and transmission of all shares in the capital of the Company shall be subject to the Rules and nothing in the regulations of the Company shall be construed as authorising any breach of the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of the Rules or Section 9 of the AJA . |
| 7 | The management of the Company and the allotment , issue , holding , transfer and transmission of all shares in the capital of the Company shall be subject to the Rules and nothing in the regulations of the Company shall be construed as authorising any breach of the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of the Rules or Section 9 of the AJA . |
| 8 | Asset strippers and property developers are extremely interested in the property assets of bus companies , and nothing in the Bill would exclude them from bidding for bus companies . |
| 9 | The image of grass is therefore ambivalent , and nothing in the lines preceding our present text has conditioned its readers to interpret the image of line A in the way that line B requires . |
| 10 | His Lordship would confine the absence of procedural protection in the pure master-servant area to cases where there was no element of public employment , no service , no statutory support , and nothing in the nature of an office . |
| 11 | I had no insurance , and nothing in the bank . |
| 12 | ‘ I have had the mortification of seeing him … this afternoon with three prizes … ’ wrote one irate resident to the Admiralty , ‘ and nothing in the world to oppose him . ’ |
| 13 | Had she but known it I had already made up my mind to get better , and nothing in the world was further from my thoughts than death . ’ |
| 14 | I have no one and nothing in the world . ’ |
| 15 | " I had plenty of dates , if that 's what you mean , " Sara said , " but nothing in the way of a long-term project . |
| 16 | But nothing in the text says so . |
| 17 | But nothing in the response of the Al Fayeds ' advisers , for all its bluster and menace , rebutted my basic case or added one jot of information to explain the origins of the brothers ' wealth . |
| 18 | But nothing in the language used justifies the conclusion that the mortgagor was agreeing to pay , or to permit to be charged on the mortgaged property , costs , charges and expenses that had been unreasonably incurred or that were unreasonable in amount . |