Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All sound mystics insist that the experience of the divine has nothing whatever to do with emotion and certainly nothing at all to do with physical sensation . |
| 2 | Although we now know a great deal about person identification by face , we know very little about voice identification and almost nothing about how face and voice information are combined . |
| 3 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 4 | ‘ Scientific knowledge , like language , is intrinsically the common property of a group or else nothing at all . |
| 5 | It 's , I , I mean these , these , the work with , with the original action network seems to , seems to come and go , you 've got a very large amount at one point and then nothing for sometime , it just depends er , I think which country they 're targeting and how much there is , because we had quite a lot on Malawi did n't we during the early part on last year not much on South Africa recently , as if they do n't quite know what to do , you know with the situation there it 's not quite er clarified . |
| 6 | It very rarely happens that you take several fish in one period and then nothing for the remainder of the time you spend on the water . |
| 7 | He was small for his age , dark , large-eyed — in fact he seemed to be all Diane and almost nothing of his father . |
| 8 | Maybe the Food Safety Bill will be useful damage-limitation : pre-empting public terror that almost nothing in the supermarket is safe to eat . |
| 9 | To know God and yet nothing of our own wretched state breeds pride ; to realize our misery and know nothing of God is mere despair ; but if we come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ we find our true equilibrium , for there we find both human misery and God . |
| 10 | There was scarcely any unsavoury incident and certainly nothing on the scale of the problems at the same venue four years before when the American wives were hissed and cheers greeted almost all of their husbands unsuccessful shots . |
| 11 | ‘ Anything less than seven points could mean a play-off or indeed nothing at all because so many teams still have a chance . ’ |