Example sentences of "have [vb pp] nothing [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the programme — accused by parents and staff of misrepresenting Summerhill — has done nothing to dent the enthusiasm of Shinichiro Hori , the 48-year-old professor of elementary education at Osaka University who has spent the past eight years planning and raising money to open Kinokuni . |
| 2 | Such scepticism has done nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the growing band of organisations that are embracing empowerment whole-heartedly . |
| 3 | Long used to the presence of humans , these were quite tame — even inquisitive — and the permanent twitching of the creature 's nose would have done nothing to hinder the emergence of the expression . |
| 4 | The exceptions are Northern Ireland , Scotland and Wales , experiments with regional offices and controllers in England having done nothing to alter the fact that both policy and much of the details of administration are still controlled from Whitehall . |
| 5 | This seems somewhat cool behaviour , considering that the governors appear to have done nothing to put the medal up for competition . |
| 6 | Thus , so soon after the passage of the Reform Act was it shown to have done nothing to realise the aspirations of working men . |
| 7 | Rain told him she had heard nothing to suggest the police were suspicious about the provenance of the paintings . |
| 8 | Six years had done nothing to soften the horror of Israel 's death ; Ernest Kleiber would never come to terms with that . |
| 9 | They insisted that the massacre was China 's internal affair , that China had done nothing to harm the United States ' interests , and that it was up to the US to take the initiative in repairing relations . |
| 10 | Sitting up had done nothing to relieve the cramping agony inside me . |
| 11 | The exertion and fresh air had done nothing to ease the pain Kelly felt in her head , the weakness in her muscles . |
| 12 | He might still only be a juvenile who had never flown freely on the wind but he felt he had done nothing to warrant the abuse and fury of an eagle whose name he did not even know . |
| 13 | The prayers had done nothing to dispel the sense of night and stirring trees outside , the splattering of rain on the glass . |
| 14 | Old Mahu , the gatekeeper who had slept on the night of Mertseger 's disappearance , had been dismissed without a pension , but that action had done nothing to mollify the general 's conscience . |
| 15 | The commercialization of peasant agriculture had been fostering such differentiation long before Stolypin threw his weight behind it , yet it had done nothing to temper the ferocity of the peasants ' attack upon the nobility in 1905 . |
| 16 | In quoting this extract twelve years later , the Report of the Inquiry into Prison Disturbances by Lord Justice Woolf found that the management changes which had taken place since 1979 had done nothing to reduce the deep-felt sense of dissatisfaction , and that in many establishments there was a strong feeling of distrust of headquarters . |
| 17 | In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing . |
| 18 | Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Leicester , the midlands and elsewhere in the past 13 years , yet the Government have done nothing to support the industry . |
| 19 | The Government have done nothing to reassure the public that their proposals for adult education will not be highly damaging if the Bill goes through . |
| 20 | The passing centuries have done nothing to diminish the ardour of those ( including many foreign scholars ) tirelessly engaged in trying to hunt these manuscripts down . |
| 21 | It 's done nothing to tackle the short-term nature of the market in energy . |
| 22 | It 's done nothing to tackle the desperate need for a balanced energy policy that looks at the long-term needs of the country . |