Example sentences of "[vb pp] nothing [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deadline for lodging the appeal is midnight tonight but UEFA have so far heard nothing from the Georgian club . |
| 2 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 3 | He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours . |
| 4 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 5 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 6 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 7 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 8 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 9 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 10 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 11 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 13 | The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy . |
| 14 | The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy . |
| 15 | Clydebank have had nothing but a damaging effect on Aberdeen , however . |
| 16 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 17 | Although most Gazans — 70% of whom are under 35 — have known nothing but the Israeli occupation that started in 1967 , the young are fired with the idea of resistance , however futile . |
| 18 | Harry swore Sam to secrecy , and the two young fishermen told their crews that they had found nothing but an empty boat . |
| 19 | Independent software vendors will be charged nothing until the second year when a $2,500 fee per company will be levied . |
| 20 | ‘ The IRA have gained nothing over the past 20 years by their tactics of terrorism and murder . |
| 21 | Monaghan Day had revived nothing but a weak fanciful ghost of what had been . |
| 22 | In this respect Wilson seems to have learned nothing from the earlier failure of the NAS&FU . |
| 23 | We have to make the imaginative and unsettling leap into understanding that agricultural and industrial civilizations have put nothing into the basic wiring of the human animal . |
| 24 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 25 | The troubled couple are paid nothing from the Civil List . |