Example sentences of "it [verb] nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , it got nothing of the kind . |
| 2 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 3 | And it produced nothing like the furore that the almost contemporary list of ‘ Great British Novelists ’ did . |
| 4 | The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wearing 175/60 Continental tyres , it has nothing like the grip of a 205 GTi , nor does it have the Peugeot 's steering feel . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It says nothing about the setting up of programmes of screening by invitation or the use of desk top analysers . |
| 14 | It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 17 | Change was a mass movement ; it owed nothing to the puny efforts of the individual . |
| 18 | Complexity was neither necessary nor desirable ; it was of no practical use and it solved nothing in the end . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | But it did nothing for the glass . |
| 21 | It did nothing about the immediate problems , and so , probably inevitably , came to be seen as a form of inaction . |
| 22 | ‘ It did nothing of the sort . |
| 23 | Yet it proves nothing about the Commons . |
| 24 | It proves nothing of the sort , " thought the Magistrate , stroking his cinnamon whiskers with excitement that bordered on ecstasy . |
| 25 | It said nothing of the ! |
| 26 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 27 | But it does nothing of the sort . |
| 28 | It does nothing of the kind . |
| 29 | Expecting to find a look of mockery on his face , she was disconcerted to see that it held nothing of the sort . |
| 30 | ‘ It suggests nothing of the sort but as it happens you are partly right . |