Example sentences of "which [be] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mechanics , the in-house mechanics , which are nothing to do with the backbenchers , which they know nothing of and understand even less . |
| 2 | Is my hon. Friend aware that in my constituency the majority of people infinitely prefer the council tax to Labour 's alternative — the so-called fair rates , which are nothing but a return to the dreaded rating system that we had before , and which was especially hated in the south of England ? |
| 3 | It is not only impossible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations which are nothing but abstract relations , but it is only possible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations that refer directly to observable phenomena in material reality . |
| 4 | Not the whiteness of the whale , which is still something , but the emptiness of the glass , which is nothing . |
| 5 | Some time later I got an amp as well It was as big a piece of junk as the bass — a Fenton Weill Mk II with a Goodman speaker , which is nothing but a cheap copy of the Ampeg Portaflex B15N . |
| 6 | Yet we do know , now , that the world 's waters are the world 's essential regulators : of global temperature , and of the chemistry of the atmosphere — which is nothing like so invariable as we might like to suppose . |
| 7 | There is also imagery of God as a woman which is nothing to do with specific female roles such as giving birth . |
| 8 | Nothing is more annoying than when a dole queue fan shells out six pounds for a ticket to a show which is nothing but a huge yawn for the artist involved . |
| 9 | I came across the expected pitch ’ below the wedged boulders , which Wainwright describes as ‘ The one difficulty , above which is nothing but simple scrambling to the top . ’ |
| 10 | It is not merely the study of dogmas as accumulated down through the centuries ( as in the Roman Catholic understanding of dogmatics ) , but their critical subordination to and testing by the primary and original dogma , which is nothing other than Jesus Christ himself . |
| 11 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 12 | Yes , there are a few , e.g. a two-wire transmission line which is nothing else but two parallel wires carrying opposite currents . |
| 13 | I know all there is to know , which is nothing . |
| 14 | Which is nothing , which is fuck-all . |
| 15 | Isabel fell from grace , which is nothing new in our circles , let me tell you . |
| 16 | This denial is exposed by the strategy of ‘ family planning ’ in our country , which is nothing more than a pillar of the apartheid programme . |
| 17 | Is that because the report does not substantiate the proposals in the Education ( Schools ) Bill , which is nothing more than English ideology that the Government are transmitting to Wales ? |
| 18 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |
| 19 | You 're now talking on anoth on a subject of the Authority which is nothing whatever to do with us this afternoon . |
| 20 | This is the the buttery where which is nothing to do with butter but it 's where erm the drink for the house was kept in barrels or butts like these . |
| 21 | ‘ You can consider this something which is nothing in the car , ’ he said . |
| 22 | That gives you five pound a month towards your pension which is nothing is it ? |
| 23 | Which is nothing at all to do with that . |
| 24 | Which was nothing more than a sideways stab at NME hipness coupled with a nod towards the absurd fitness fad . |
| 25 | Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz . |
| 26 | Mitchell then forwarded to Cameron in Dar es Salaam a quite unrecognizable version of the Murrells scheme which was nothing more than a vastly elaborated edition of the existing system of administration through the laibon and laigwenak . |
| 27 | Only just into three figures , which was nothing these days , and in any case the money could n't have been important . |
| 28 | In this letter , we hear only of the liberty of his soul and what his soul 's health required , which was nothing else than being freed from his office as archbishop . |
| 29 | It might even give him a nice profit on his outlay , which was nothing to worry about . |
| 30 | ‘ I had the kitchen stove which was nothing but steel : I had to do that down every morning till you could see yourself in it ; and whiten the hearth . |