Example sentences of "nothing [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the amendment is carried , it becomes the substantive motion and when it is put to the vote you vote against it since you would prefer to give nothing rather than £15 . |
| 2 | He 'd have preferred Bernard to say nothing rather than patronize him . |
| 3 | Would you prefer to have nothing rather than something ? |
| 4 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 5 | A set of four small pastel drawings depicting nothing more than burning leaves , haystacks , and a solitary tree convincingly carry nothing less than 400 years of European history — from the displacement of Catholicism , the enlightenment , the Holocaust to the decay of capitalism . |
| 6 | We can believe nothing only if this too is made into a belief . |
| 7 | The gentle , careful , intelligent eyes that gave nothing away while leaving you with the impression that you and what you were saying were the most intelligent things she had ever beheld and heard . |
| 8 | Woolworths opened its first British shop in Liverpool 80 years ago , thrived on its ‘ nothing more than 6d ’ formula until the second world war , lumbered through the the 60s and 70s and came into the embrace of Mulcahy 's team with more than 1,000 outlets . |
| 9 | How on earth are you supposed to ascertain how players are performing if the graphics show nothing more than ten shots at goal by three forwards per match ? |
| 10 | A pair of binoculars is nothing more than two small refractors joined together . |
| 11 | then you stand a chance in being able to show him nothing more than two per cent . |
| 12 | The reverse slopes up to Fort St. Michel on the Right Bank , where Pastre 's battery was sited , were crammed with every calibre of gun ; it was ‘ nothing more than one immense battery , there are perhaps 500 pieces there . ’ |
| 13 | nothing more than fifty shillings |
| 14 | Thank you , I shall do nothing further than read out erm , a list of all the officers who erm , President Vice President , the Right Honourable Dr Leslie Mr Peter , the Honourable Kenneth and Vice President Alan . |
| 15 | Mary , who has said nothing up until now , stirs in her seat in the corner of the room . |
| 16 | Here you just do nothing really unless you want to , you know . |
| 17 | I raised £18 and I 've since raised £4,000 , but that 's nothing really when you compare it with someone 's life . |
| 18 | The expense would all go for nothing now because the Emperor had just rewritten the social calendar . |
| 19 | She had believed Thomas was shy of the Dane , but now she realised that the child gave nothing out because he received nothing back in return . |
| 20 | Until then , nothing half-way as bold on rock had ever been attempted . |
| 21 | The main factor that links unemployment and poor health is poverty , and workfare will do nothing here unless people are paid more than they would receive on benefit . |
| 22 | Mark , 26 , said : ‘ A woman was walking along like a zombie clinging to the little girl , but doing nothing even though the girl was completely engulfed in flames and sobbing . |
| 23 | Time meant nothing then when kiss after kiss they shared , and , as Naylor pressed her to the mattress , Leith pressed closer to him . |
| 24 | ‘ But nothing quite as … sensational as that . ’ |
| 25 | Lancaster Gate awoke on Monday to find itself accused of doing nothing almost before it had had time to consider doing anything . |
| 26 | Other drops were found but nothing else so Mandeville ordered us to resume our search . |
| 27 | There were instances where young families had moved from an urban to a rural life and now wanted nothing else than a farming career . |
| 28 | Those who were kind now would remember him in future — if for nothing else than the thank-you letters . |
| 29 | The so-called primitive accumulation … is nothing else than the historical process of divorcing the producer from the means of production . |
| 30 | Since the lifetime of a large black hole must be measured in untold billions of years , it seems inevitable that the end of the Universe can be nothing else than the coalescence of everything into a single black hole . |