Example sentences of "nothing like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Facing page : there 's nothing like a brew to soothe aching limbs but where 's the Kendal Mint cake ? |
| 2 | THERE is nothing like a holiday to rekindle the flames of passion . |
| 3 | There 's nothing like a steam railway to evoke the atmosphere needed for a truly British Romantic film set in days gone by . |
| 4 | ‘ My wife says there 's nothing like a romance . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing like a bit of a weep to make a girl feel better . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing like a bit of sea air to get the brain cells jumping . |
| 7 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 8 | I sat a moment cursing the junkie builders , then suddenly the thought came : Hang on , Jimbo , this could be good news ( there 's nothing like a crack on the nut with a lead pipe to wake a body up ) , this could mean we 've got fresh water piped to the back door whenever it rains , and sucks to the waterboard . |
| 9 | No , not a cathedral , nothing like a cathedral . |
| 10 | ‘ The first time your children tell you they 've heard the story , remember , I warned you , ’ He drained his mug , dropping it over his shoulder into the water slushing around in the galley : ‘ Nothing like a hurricane for washing dishes . ’ |
| 11 | And there 's nothing like a conversation when you smoke . |
| 12 | The thing is , there is nothing like a bike for sheer visceral excitement . |
| 13 | Basically , there 's nothing like a combo for doing that . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There 's nothing like a cup of tea , dear , ’ she said comfortingly , as she filled it . |
| 15 | ‘ Nothing like a cup of tea to wake you up . ’ |
| 16 | There is nothing like a band of men in their working environment to make a single female feel like a page three Martian . |
| 17 | I ai n't nothing like a dame |
| 18 | ‘ Keeps the bastards on the alert , ’ remarked the Trog , ‘ Nothing like a load of exploding mortar shit to keep their fucking heads down ! ’ |
| 19 | There was nothing like a chocolate gateau with cream ; Elysium was to be found in a glutinous , fat dumpling ; and a good pastry was a walk in Arcadia . |
| 20 | She had decided to have a look at the human face of the bogey , and there is nothing like a dog ( the only animal which trusts humans ! ) for starting a conversation . |
| 21 | Predictably Michael Palin 's Pole to Pole was the runaway Christmas hit , proving once again that there is nothing like a television series to help sales of a book — Heffers sold between 1,300 and 1,400 copies . |
| 22 | Well what do you mean nothing like a party then ? |
| 23 | Marie Claire was nothing like a nun and made a noise as she walked in her high-heeled shoes . |
| 24 | There is nothing like the sight of death and blood to make old Shallot want a cup of sack or a goblet of wine ! |
| 25 | ‘ There 's desert to cross , but it 's nothing like the G'bai . ’ |
| 26 | There was an increase in the urban programme but on nothing like the scale he wanted . |
| 27 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |
| 28 | Well , all right , technically he was concealing information about a deserter — although nothing like the scale on which Maj or Maxim was doing it — but civilians do n't take desertion seriously . |
| 29 | In Germany , for example , there 's nothing like the division between Parliament and Government that I was speaking of erm as far as France was concerned , erm nor is there to quite the same extent erm the sort of links between administrative politicians and political administrators , but one of the things they share in common is a tendency to have a legal background and a legal approach to administration , and almost all senior civil servants in Germany , for example , have gone through a legal training . |
| 30 | There 's nothing like an Epsom , there 's nothing like the variety that our jockeys have to cope with |