Example sentences of "it [vb -s] nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 2 | The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen . |
| 3 | Charity workers have recently returned from Romania after completing a survey of the hospital and Mr Paul Stage , chairman of the organisation , said : ‘ It has nothing in the way of modern conveniences . |
| 4 | Wearing 175/60 Continental tyres , it has nothing like the grip of a 205 GTi , nor does it have the Peugeot 's steering feel . |
| 5 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |
| 6 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 7 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
| 8 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 9 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 10 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 11 | It says nothing about the setting up of programmes of screening by invitation or the use of desk top analysers . |
| 12 | It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic . |
| 13 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
| 14 | And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’ |
| 15 | Yet it proves nothing about the Commons . |
| 16 | It proves nothing of the sort , " thought the Magistrate , stroking his cinnamon whiskers with excitement that bordered on ecstasy . |
| 17 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 18 | But it does nothing of the sort . |
| 19 | It does nothing of the kind . |
| 20 | ‘ It suggests nothing of the sort but as it happens you are partly right . |