Example sentences of "but [verb] nothing [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure of Robert Duvall was holding a briefcase ; he glanced inside but found nothing but a sheet of blank paper . |
| 2 | Thus the dilemma of the polluting industry is that controlling pollution is expensive , but adds nothing to the value of the goods produced , and is bad business for any firm whose main concern is to maintain profitability in a competitive situation . ’ |
| 3 | The Americans came to London and invested large amounts of money in local film production , but put nothing into the creative infrastructure . |
| 4 | Later abolitionists , most notably Thomas Mathiesen , have argued that only ‘ negative ’ reforms ( changes that may reduce the debit side of the prison 's legitimacy but add nothing to the credit side ) be encouraged . |
| 5 | Not to be outdone by the bright lights and razzle dazzle of their closest competitor , but having nothing in the size league of the 53f5 , Jeanneau unveiled ( literally ) their new Jeanneau one-design which has an overall length of 34ft 9in ( 10.6m ) and a displacement of about 7,716lb ( 3.500kg ) . |
| 6 | I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk , but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches . |
| 7 | What did she know of this man who was now her husband , and what was to become of them , two strangers who had begun to be familiar with each other 's bodies but knew nothing of the thoughts and emotions that lay within . |
| 8 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 9 | The highway development survey commissioned for Greater London in 1936 , and carried out by Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edward Lutyens , addressed the problem of the flow of commercial traffic in London , but said nothing about the reduction of central area congestion nor about the relation between traffic circulation , land use or environmental design . |
| 10 | Like some of your more illustrious colleagues ( Ron Atkinson , Graham Taylor , etc. ) , you have a tendency to say a lot but to say nothing at the same time . |