Example sentences of "[vb base] nothing [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , if you want nothing more than a passage anchorage , Dale , down near the entrance , will serve very well , but we felt Neyland merited a first visit , and thanks to going there we had this early morning enchantment of seeing ships , great and small , going about their work . |
| 2 | ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission . |
| 3 | Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 4 | Even dissertations that manage to reach the library shelves usually face nothing more than the gnawing criticism of mice . ’ |
| 5 | Shareholders get nothing more than a bald one-year profit forecast . |
| 6 | She could see nothing through the night — and hear nothing other than the sound of rolling waves — until the outline of the steep cliffs towered above her . |
| 7 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
| 8 | ( The Booker , thought Jeffrey , had recently become nothing more than a branch of Overseas Development . ) |
| 9 | For the size of frame illustrated , and smaller , use nothing larger than a 60 watt bulb |
| 10 | The plants featured , however , embrace nothing larger than a fly , so humans are quite safe . |
| 11 | If there are to be sacrifices and belt-tightening , the Soviet leaders love nothing better than a backdrop of international threat to add pathos and realism to the drama . |
| 12 | ‘ I adore children and love nothing better than a household full of youngsters . ’ |
| 13 | I adore children — and love nothing better than a house full of youngsters |
| 14 | Children love nothing more than a good story . |
| 15 | Scorpios love nothing more than a chance to break a social taboo . |
| 16 | It is important in using this method to exclude all transfer payments as these represent nothing more than a redistribution of income from taxpayers to the transfer recipients ; including them , therefore , would involve double-counting . |
| 17 | ‘ You have nothing more than a dislike of Mr Connon and a very nasty twist in your mind which is going to get you into very serious trouble indeed . |