Example sentences of "nothing [to-vb] [coord] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Dr Sommers feels that Regina has nothing to lose and a great deal to gain if she follows his advice re support for her floating kidney ’ ) .
2 Looking ahead , over the instruments , there is nothing to see but the front tyres and the track .
3 Head buried , nothing to see but the brown velvet belly full of blood , all soft and bloated like a spider 's abdomen .
4 When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood .
5 But even to themselves they pretended that all was well , for the food was good , they were protected , they had nothing to fear but the one fear ; and that struck here and there , never enough at a time to drive them away .
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