Example sentences of "nothing [to-vb] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the sheer number of performances , there has been nothing to compare with the serial trials of white collar criminals . |
| 2 | Indeed , they demonstrate little interest in or carry any vim into their academic work ; certainly nothing to compare with the avid desire for technique and expertise many take to the sports field . |
| 3 | The first important modern paintings sale of the year held by Guy Loudmer on 16 February contained nothing to compare with the outstanding works featured in his sales during the height of the speculative boom two or three years ago . |
| 4 | Dressing-up crazes and the appearance of huge inflatables suggest the stirrings of a new culture of spectatorship but there is nothing to compare with the Italian spectacle . |
| 5 | Tirana home service radio initially denounced the hunger strike as having " nothing to do with a loyal strike struggle " , but in subsequent days the radio detailed the hunger strikers ' demands and deteriorating health , and by June 1 had swung round to emotional support for them and for the UITUA . |
| 6 | This is part of growing up and has nothing to do with a deep-seated homosexual tendency . |
| 7 | This so alarmed the Sicilians , who wanted nothing to do with a German prince , that they gave the throne to William 's illegitimate cousin , Tancred of Lecca , an ambitious man famed for his ugliness of both temper and physique . |
| 8 | Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy . |
| 9 | How can we think about something colouring our that does n't have anything to do with our bodies , nothing to do with our history , nothing to do with a particular that we 've gone through , nothing to do with our soul faculties . |
| 10 | Well it 's nothing to do with the working really , ma , it 's the fact that they with A facing you the spool is ready to run . |
| 11 | We would couple this with an investigation to discover the real cause or causes of the high labour turnover ( which may turn out to have nothing to do with the immediate problem ) . |
| 12 | Casey Miller and Kate Swift in their book on sexist language make the point that there are a number of words with the prefix ‘ man ’ which have nothing to do with the male gender . |
| 13 | It stressed that it accepted that Black had nothing to do with the stolen goods or weapons found at the cottage . |
| 14 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 15 | See , in America they 're being touted as ( cough , splutter ) ‘ The New Smiths ’ , which presumably has nothing to do with The New Seekers and a lot to do with , ‘ Hey , these guys are grreaat ! ’ |
| 16 | If that were to happen , let it be clear that that would be typical of the cynical manipulation by Labour councils of the most vulnerable in our society , and nothing to do with the new council tax . |
| 17 | And I think , Chairman , we should be reminded that this is a new application , nothing to do with the other one , and I think we should consider this as a new application . |
| 18 | There were odd moments when , for no reason , the two voices lifted off , as though they were nothing to do with the two people who did n't like one another . |
| 19 | This had nothing to do with the European Social Charter , which proposes to enshrine similar rights , he said . |
| 20 | The KGB Collegium issued a statement on Aug. 22 : " The staff of the KGB have nothing to do with the unlawful acts of the group of adventurists . " |
| 21 | As she let herself out into the garden through the kitchen door , she gave a small shiver that had absolutely nothing to do with the autumnal chill in the air . |
| 22 | ( In the air this is nothing to do with the actual wind . |
| 23 | One thing that I always wanted not to happen to me was to become like a TV cameraman who goes home to watch TV and says , ‘ Aw , look at that lighting , ’ or something trivial that really has nothing to do with the actual story . |
| 24 | First , it obviously has nothing to do with the actual gender of the words , since all of them refer to ungendered objects or substances . |
| 25 | Certainly her main reason for accepting the post had nothing to do with the actual work involved , but the hope that closer acquaintance with him might throw some light on Elise 's baffling death . |
| 26 | In practice , however , it is very likely that the person who creates a DC , and enters all the initial information about it , will be a technical assistant , who has nothing to do with the actual implementation of the DC . |
| 27 | Upton protesters say they condemn such tactics and have nothing to do with the similar attack in Worcestershire . |
| 28 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 29 | God , I thought unkindly , had nothing to do with the simple foresight of bringing a water-bottle on a desert outing . |
| 30 | It has nothing to do with the individual grant maintained schools . |