Example sentences of "nothing [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slight pallor beneath his tan and the white bandage high on his left arm did nothing to detract from the air of menace about him . |
| 2 | Howard James had felt pain before , but nothing to compare to the agony he felt from his shattered leg . |
| 3 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 4 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 5 | ‘ But now Miss Kyte must leave you , or she will have nothing to wear for the occasion . ’ |
| 6 | Inspired , yes , by a bus run , but the booler is definitely my own husband who is devoted to sport and allows nothing to come in the way of his bowls , both indoor and outdoor bowling . |
| 7 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 8 | His men stopped being paid , and there was nothing to buy with the money they had . |
| 9 | The Government 's record on acquiring works of art in those important national museums is nothing short of a disgrace , and the Bill does nothing to deal with the problem . |
| 10 | To Loppe himself he had nothing to give save the task in Cyprus which had seemed most worth doing . |
| 11 | It was n't the nigger 's fault that he had nothing to do for the moment . |
| 12 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 13 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 14 | It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home . |
| 15 | Molly , Edith ( Harlow ) and I were talking about the Medauring in Germany started by Sofie Trappe , and I said we ought to form a group in England — Molly 's reaction was ‘ that 's fine Andy so long as I have nothing to do with the organisation ’ … so that year we formed the Studio Club . |
| 16 | It 's nothing to do with the school . |
| 17 | When they dissociate themselves from the academic world of their time , they are making the time-honoured mystical point that what Wordsworth would call ‘ the meddling intellect ’ had nothing to do with the vision of God . |
| 18 | One senior umpire said : ‘ Don not being voted back as chairman had absolutely nothing to do with the uproar about the ball-changing . |
| 19 | ‘ The entire concept of artistic licence and innovation , on which we put such a high premium these days has nothing to do with the way much early Northern painting was created . |
| 20 | Has this extensive network of connections nothing to do with the way contentious issues like discrimination against women or minorities pollution , state welfare , or housing costs were kept from the political agenda for so long ? |
| 21 | How can you say that has nothing to do with the way you feel ? |
| 22 | ‘ Of course it had nothing to do with the ruby itself , the real cause was their all being so insanely superstitious . |
| 23 | The second reason is a nagging doubt that perhaps we are researching fictions of our own making ; that is , we are producing theories about experimental subjects in laboratory situations which have nothing to do with the individual in society . |
| 24 | This is the more important part of the capital/income confusion in public sector organizations : agreement on the irrelevance of income as a performance measure can often be readily obtained because service provision may have nothing to do with the profit motive ; on the other hand , all organizations have capital of some sort . |
| 25 | He was tried and executed , protesting that he had nothing to do with the affair . |
| 26 | It was nothing to do with the Change . |
| 27 | ‘ The old religion , Vi , has been with us as long as time and has nothing to do with the Church of Rome . |
| 28 | The order in which these are actually drawn on to the design area of the screen has nothing to do with the colour order for knitting . |
| 29 | Anneka 's friendship with TV producer Tom Gutteridge , which was the subject of much press speculation , had nothing to do with the split . |
| 30 | Now you 're always making a balance in developing drugs and I have nothing to do with the drug industry , I 'm a G P , you have a balance between trying to move things forward to get people better and on the other hand making sure that you 're not going to do them any great harm . |