Example sentences of "[vb infin] that [pron] be nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you know that there is nothing they like better than to be starved ? |
| 2 | When the mother approaches the nest where the kittens are hiding , letting them know that there is nothing to fear by her approach . |
| 3 | Bill did you know that there 's nothing on this tape ? |
| 4 | Let me emphasize that there is nothing wrong in comparing local authority figures for numbers of children placed ‘ home on trial ’ . |
| 5 | From the experience of the 1920s and 1930s , therefore , it would appear that there was nothing overwhelmingly certain about the success of communism in Vietnam or , at least , about the success of the Indochina Communist Party . |
| 6 | When a horse is shy of any object , and reluctant to approach it , the rider must try to make him feel that there is nothing terrible in it , especially to a horse of spirit ; but if he can not succeed , the rider must himself touch that which appears so alarming , and lead the horse up gently to it . |
| 7 | Or do you feel that there 's nothing really interesting about him ? ’ |
| 8 | In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) . |
| 9 | We must always remember that there is nothing that compels anybody to work for an individual company even in an era of high unemployment . |
| 10 | Having said that , governments would be more responsible to Parliament ; Parliament would be stronger relative to the executive ; and party leaders could be " weaker " , but we should remember that there is nothing essentially democratic about reviving the parliamentary government of the nineteenth-century liberal constitution . |
| 11 | I had better remember that there 's nothing in the least bit sinister about mists and fogs . |
| 12 | And then the shadows moved again , and Lugh could see that there was nothing there at all , and that he was nearer now to Tara than he had thought , and after all it had only been a trick of the light . |
| 13 | Because as she opened her eyes she could plainly see that there was nothing even remotely ghost-like about the tall , broad-shouldered figure of her husband , Ross Wyndham , now sitting on the seat beside her . |
| 14 | It does n't mean that there 's nothing left — necessarily . |
| 15 | The fact that the system is no longer challenged by any mainstream party does not mean that there is nothing to challenge . |
| 16 | The use of square brackets would normally mean that there is nothing in the hand of the king , not even a signature , but that the material is contemporary with him and belongs to his period . |
| 17 | One must add that there is nothing particularly remarkable about the fact that such a myth should have grown up ; it would almost be surprising if it had not . |
| 18 | Some would say that there is nothing remarkable or wrong in working for some group and being paid to answer some question that the group regards as important . |
| 19 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |
| 20 | For example , the Department of Health and Social Services is putting a lot of money into funding health visitors to visit first-time mothers , but some would argue that there is nothing innovative about this . |
| 21 | On it I shall argue that there is nothing that can not be understood , that there is nothing that can not be explained , and that everything is extraordinarily simple A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation . |
| 22 | In many ways one could argue that there was nothing new in the FMI ; it was simply that many of these changes were almost two decades late in being recommended since they closely resemble many of the proposals contained in the Fulton Committee Report of 1968 ( Cmnd. 3638 ) . |