Example sentences of "nothing [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 2 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 3 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 4 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 5 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 6 | And then nothing for a few moments , until his voice came again and he lifted himself from her . |
| 7 | Mike said nothing for a few minutes . |
| 8 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 9 | I said nothing for a few seconds . |
| 10 | Mr Brownlow said nothing for a few seconds , but simply stared at Rose . |
| 11 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 12 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 13 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 14 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 15 | There is nothing about a general right to follow the property over which the trust exists ; the question is purely quantitative . |
| 16 | I have a very vague idea of what this terrible crime is that I 'm trying to get to the bottom of , that you have rats in the basement of your best hotel , or you know , there 's a house falling down somewhere and you 've done absolutely nothing about a closing order , any of these kind of things , but I do n't know a lot about it . |
| 17 | Certainly , given that in the words of one critic , the implementation of Model B , for example , would result in ‘ a massive realignment of powers and institutions , raising profound questions of identity for the universities as well as the polytechnics ’ the Green Paper says little or nothing about a national policy for higher education . |
| 18 | The Patois index therefore tells us everything and nothing about an individual speaker : it tells us whether that person uses many or few Patois features overall in their talk , but nothing about how he or she uses Patois and English as part of a communicative strategy . |
| 19 | Also , there s a clause in the sale which means Leeds paying Brighton 100grand if he should ever get an England cap … nothing about an Irish cap : - ) ) ) |
| 20 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 21 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 22 | Marenches thought that Carter knew absolutely nothing about the Middle East . |
| 23 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 24 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 25 | It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic . |
| 26 | Moreover , an explicit claim to multiple points of view tells us nothing about the actual practice of using them . |
| 27 | It did nothing about the immediate problems , and so , probably inevitably , came to be seen as a form of inaction . |
| 28 | A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her . |
| 29 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 30 | Mr H knew nothing about the new law when he arrived in the UK . |