Example sentences of "be nothing [prep] it " in BNC.

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1 There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found .
2 ’ I could not have accessed it if there had been nothing in it ’ .
3 ‘ There 's been nothing like it since the Bible , ’ said an obviously excited spokesperson for the book 's publishers , Transworld .
4 There has been nothing like it in human history .
5 There had been nothing like it in the UK before .
6 ‘ The country 's split down the middle on this thing , you know , there 's been nothing like it since Munich .
7 There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century .
8 I 'm not trying to spoil the romance of prospecting — far from it — but there is a Hollywood stereotype and nine out of ten goldpanners are nothing like it .
9 The knack , the trick : there turns out to be nothing to it .
10 The management committee will meet and it will divide the money into two and give each one however much the management committee feels that it should have and that management committee need not meet again for twelve months because there will be nothing for it to do .
11 There must be nothing on it .
12 There may be nothing behind it , but it does n't make any difference so long as it is honoured .
13 Surely it is a ludicrous notion to suppose that two scientists on their own in a remote basement lab could claim to solve the world 's energy problems so that the scientific community would take up this claim , that world leaders would ask for regular briefings and that there could be nothing in it at the end .
14 I know there will be nothing in it .
15 But they wo n't There 'll be nothing in it to identify you .
16 Gloucester still fighting for survival … its the game of the season for the cherry and whites … its the game they want to win more than anyother … last season at Kingsholm they pulled it off … they squeezed home by two points … it was 14-12 to Gloucester and win or lose there 'll be nothing in it tomorrow
17 Well er the money was not you had to buy the and the there were nothing in it unless you went into choosing a a big system like the battery system .
18 You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility
19 There 's nothing about it in the manifesto .
20 There 's nothing for it but to clamber , wheezing and bursting of heart , up the steep steps ( 300 and more ) of one of the deepest shafts of the Underground to air and freedom .
21 There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’
22 There 's nothing for it .
23 ‘ And if we 're to outwit these giants , there 's nothing for it but for me to call up the Draoicht Suan .
24 ‘ There 's nothing for it when you reach the Point of No Return — except to come back . ’
25 ‘ There 's nothing to it really , ’ they say .
26 The name in a way is obvious ; there 's nothing to it really .
27 If you do it quickly , there 's nothing to it .
28 ‘ There 's nothing to it .
29 One client of a Harvard dealer visited the premises of a medical clinic , then got on the line to his dealer grumbling : " There 's nothing to it ! "
30 There 's nothing to it really . ’
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