Example sentences of "nothing [adj] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Gqozo must pay for [ the ] massacre , " he told mourners , " there was nothing accidental about Bisho . |
| 2 | It could have been as an unlucky loser against Fisher in the Ulster championships that Stephen Gibson got this glamour trip , but there was nothing controversial about Eddie 's win this time over the Immaculata lad . |
| 3 | But there can be nothing irrational about preferences which are reflectively consistent , so that the agent who pursued all of them would have no regrets . |
| 4 | But even in these drawings , which have the character of a study or demonstration , there is nothing theoretical about Picasso 's approach . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's nothing immoral about relaxation . ’ |
| 6 | THERE was nothing democratic about Wednesday 's vote on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 7 | There is nothing authoritative about Greek , but there is about the New Testament which was written in Greek . |
| 8 | Nothing lucky about Ken Veysey 's goal-keeping , though — he did a great job and kept United afloat with some superb saves . |
| 9 | There was nothing remarkable about Blesford Canal . |
| 10 | After three years at Cambridge there 's nothing soft about Dublin now . |
| 11 | There is nothing flawed about man 's nature . |
| 12 | Coming to terms with the idea that Sophie is different , Belinda finds making comparisons with so-called normal children increasingly meaningless : ‘ There is nothing abnormal about Sophie . |
| 13 | The desk clerk saw nothing unusual about Kragan ; he was just another businessman in a dark suit with a Liberty 's all-wool overcoat draped over his shoulders . |
| 14 | Irish police said there was nothing unusual about McSweeney being released without charge . |
| 15 | Simon Best , Business Development Manager of ICI Seeds There is nothing unusual about ministries being responsible for both industry and the consumer . |
| 16 | There is nothing penal about Augusta 's design — there is no thick rough off the edge of the fairways or around the fringes of the greens , the bunkering is minimal , the fairways generous , and although there is a fair sprinkling of water hazards , it is certainly no more than the players come across practically every week on the Tour . |
| 17 | There was nothing primordial about Italianness , just as there is not about the South Africanness of the ANC . |
| 18 | Buying promise has a certain value but there is nothing exclusive about promise . |
| 19 | And the countryside church , set in all that beauty ( there is nothing beautiful about Poole ) must , it seems , suffer for its loveliness — everyone wants to retire there . |
| 20 | Of course , without her cosmetics there is nothing alarming about Dorinda . |
| 21 | There is , in short , nothing generic about Magritte 's work , whereas advertising is generic almost be definition . |
| 22 | If tests measure nothing important about individuals , as the press often says , then they are a needless barrier to achieving social and economic equality . |
| 23 | A ‘ Mills and Boon Romance ’ is defined in editorial terms more by virtue of what it is not , than by its own narrative conventions , which are unstated ; ‘ we reject anything that is obviously not a romance ’ , the PR office states , but when pressed on what constitutes ‘ romance ’ , their response is ‘ no murder , blood , guts or gore , and nothing pornographic either ; there 's nothing romantic about pornography ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ There is nothing romantic about limps , dear girl . |
| 25 | But he took no notice of either thing I had said , anyway , and laughed heartily at nothing evident about Sixth Avenue , and grabbed at my knee . |
| 26 | ‘ … it is clear that , even on the absurd assumption that from one day to the next , or even from one generation to the next , the bourgeoisie would all take the places of workers and vice versa , nothing fundamental about capitalism would be changed , since the places of bourgeoisie and proletariat would still be there , and this is the principal aspect of the reproduction of capitalist relations ’ ( Poulantzas , 1975 , p. 33 ) . |
| 27 | Not inconspicuous , nothing grey about Connie , no blurred edges there . |
| 28 | There was nothing capricious about Mendoros ' choice of Britain as the place to set up shop . |
| 29 | ' ’ My poor girl , there 's nothing sacred about politics . ’ |
| 30 | Even if his history is half-baked , there is nothing amateurish about Mr Severin 's voyage . |