Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] [was/were] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her skin was sallow since the fever , and her little face was pinched with the cold so that there was nothing attractive about her . |
| 2 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 3 | Dr John Curtis , Keeper of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum , said yesterday that there was nothing like it in the world . |
| 4 | She looked at them indulgently , saw at once that they were nothing notable , and said to him straight away that they would not do . |
| 5 | One young woman , Lucy , told how sad she felt that her mother had very low self-esteem , believed she was unattractive and overweight — even said once that there was nothing she could do or be that Lucy and her sisters ‘ could n't do or be better ’ , which made Lucy feel envied and forced into competition with her mother , when she did n't want to be . |
| 6 | It was critical of the judges ' decision to award only one prize to each competitor , and pointed out that there was nothing in the conditions which debarred the same competitor from receiving prizes in more than one of the three parts of the competition . |
| 7 | If there was not , A might still believe that B was looking for something to steal , which could constitute an attempt to steal under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 notwithstanding that there was nothing there that B would have stolen . |
| 8 | Rose wished that they could be married quickly but now that there was nothing in the way of it Moran grew cautious and evasive . |
| 9 | Beyond that there was nothing to say . |