Example sentences of "nothing [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |
| 3 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 4 | Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu . |
| 5 | There 's nothing worse than stomach ache |
| 6 | If I wanted to be happy I should have avoided the pub altogether , or at least had nothing stronger than mineral water . |