Example sentences of "nothing [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reliance is placed upon the statutory duty of the Independent Broadcasting Authority to ensure that nothing is transmitted on the commercial airwaves which is in bad taste or is likely to prove offensive to public feeling . |
| 2 | In PS itself nothing is said about the sorts of words that are admissible ; there is merely a list of possible and impossible words . |
| 3 | At the same time nothing is said about the way in which firms will converge on one of the large set of possible equilibrium agreements ( given that collusion is sustainable ) . |
| 4 | Also in 1935 , the men were given permission to mark cards for the Ladies , but nothing is said of the reverse procedure . |
| 5 | Nothing is said of the progress of Theophylact in Mercia and ‘ parts of Britain ’ . |
| 6 | Nothing is said in the Act about whether orders can be made ex parte or only inter partes . |
| 7 | Nothing is seen from the track to suggest the exciting underworld here apart from the covered shaft of Barbon pot nearby : this deep hole is used as a grave for dead sheep , but their bones and rotting carcases have not deterred enthusiastic cavers from exploring the passages and caverns extending from the gloomy depths . |
| 8 | Modern beliefs , one might think , ought to be in the rationalist mould of the Enlightenment , but little or nothing is taught about the psychology of consciousness in schools , except in terms of religious studies . |
| 9 | This is a question to be considered in the round , and nothing is gained by the introduction of shifting burdens of proof , which serves only to break down into formal steps what is in reality a single appreciation of what is or is not unfair . |
| 10 | A record gross score is not recorded until 1911 when Philip Simmons returned a 75 ‘ beating the record by 2 ’ , but nothing is recorded of the earlier player 's 77 . |
| 11 | They look at a map , draw a line and produce leaflets but nothing is done on the ground to withstand the pressure of hundreds of people following the route . |
| 12 | Nothing is barred in the crime novel , however much was barred in the old days of the detective story when , for instance , sexual relations often seemed confined to one person expressing just the discreetest interest in another . |
| 13 | A MIGHTY blow for honesty can be struck today at Lord 's — nothing is required beyond the crowd rising as one for Allan Lamb . |
| 14 | However , nothing is known about the long-term environmental consequences — or even effectiveness — of using the ocean beds as dumps . |
| 15 | Nothing is known about the flora and vegetation of the Outer Hebrides in any previous interglacials , as no unambiguous interglacial deposits have , so far , been discovered . |
| 16 | Staining for antibodies specific to the short-wave photopigment has revealed a sparse , semiregular array of cones ; but nothing is known about the arrangement of the more numerous long- and middle-wave cones . |
| 17 | If nothing is known about the distribution of hits in the file , the cylinder index should be placed in the centre of the file area . |
| 18 | Next to nothing is known about the experience of ageing with a long-term disability . |
| 19 | Practically nothing is known about the race dimension to ageing with a disability . |
| 20 | However , nothing is known about the expression of the two individual α subunit variants in human muscle or other tissues . |
| 21 | Nothing is known about the brothers ' formal education or early apprenticeships . |
| 22 | Nothing is known about the location and extent of the associated estate ; it could have been connected with stone-quarrying around Bath , which was being extracted and used for tombstones at Colchester before the Boudiccan revolt . |
| 23 | Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower . |
| 24 | Nothing is known of the scores . |
| 25 | Again , a priori , we assume nothing is known of the nature of A , so that the process of finding the dominant eigenvalue and its vector is approached as usual by iterating with A on an arbitrary column co . |
| 26 | If virtually nothing is known of the town defences , only a little more can be said about the streets . |
| 27 | Leisure in the home : this photograph is labelled simply ‘ An Interior Kitchen 1927 ’ and may have been taken in Paisley , but nothing is known of the boy . |
| 28 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 29 | Either the magistrate refuses bail and says , effectively , that the court orders that the weekly equivalent of £20,000 a year is spent on the offender until his case is heard , or the court grants bail and orders that nothing is spent on the offender until the case is heard . |
| 30 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |