Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb -s] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 2 | So , unsurprisingly , she ensures that she does nothing to cross the ‘ important ’ people on which she is dependent . |
| 3 | The young mother may feel that she has nothing to offer — after all , much as she loves her children , their conversation may be less than stimulating . |
| 4 | State Trooper McNamara reassures her that she has nothing to worry about because there are police there already . |
| 5 | Well you 've heard the senior prosecutor say that she knows nothing , she |
| 6 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , even in Minnie , who 's so unlikely that she 's probably true — there probably has been someone who grew up as she did , saloon-wise and card-sharping yet quite sure that she wants nothing to do with the kind of messing around she 's seen under her parents ’ roof . |
| 8 | You see , an island like Hodges is so occupied with copra that it produces nothing else . |
| 9 | I agree with hon. Members who have said that it may prove to be a major step towards the valuable goal of greater unity in Europe , but let us face the fact that it changes nothing in today 's world . |
| 10 | The first is that it says nothing about W-cells . |
| 11 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 12 | Looking at the legal aid scheme overall , it is clear that it offers nothing new in the system for the delivery of legal services . |
| 13 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 14 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 15 | Of course the retention of material on library shelves also costs money , in a sense , although a librarian may argue that it costs nothing extra to fill up shelf space which is lying empty . |
| 16 | The advantage of this approach is that it costs nothing , at least in the immediate future . |
| 17 | A people without religion will in the end find that it has nothing to live for . |
| 18 | Israel , justifiably proud of its military prowess , has had to admit that it has nothing special to offer . |
| 19 | You might decide to watch television , listen to music or read a book — but make sure that you enjoy it and that it has nothing to do with your work . |
| 20 | Whatever the true origins of grammatical gender , it can not be true that it has nothing to do with sex . |
| 21 | According to Henderson ( 1979 ) , ‘ no school can reasonably be so bold as to suggest that it has nothing to learn from other schools , from professional teacher-trainers or from educational scholarship and research ’ . |
| 22 | Of course , we could argue that obese parents eat too much , and are thus likely to overfeed their children , making them obese , and that it has nothing to do with genetics or inheritance . |
| 23 | Marlboros have become the alternative to hard currency — safer than dollars , which the ordinary citizen is forbidden to have , and more useful than the rouble , so soft that it buys nothing worth having . |
| 24 | The only point in its favour is that it contains nothing that is toxic . |
| 25 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 26 | The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc . |
| 27 | Perhaps he will even write and say that he knows nothing of it — that it is the Mayhews , Augusta 's family , who have announced a marriage . |
| 28 | I can say with confidence , however , that he knows nothing about Athletico Whaddon . |
| 29 | This is noticeably similar to scene one where he repeatedly violates the maxim of quantity to avoid admitting that he knows nothing about Chetwyn : In both scenes , Anderson attempts to avoid divulging information which could compromise his academic credibility . |
| 30 | Already in 1926 ( The New Republic , 30 June ) Tate was obliged — faced with the aridity in diction and imagery of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ — to concede that ‘ It is possible that he has nothing more to say in poetry ’ . |