Example sentences of "nothing [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another woman , Virgo , marries Tycho , an astronomer , who has time for nothing lower than the stars and the planets . |
| 2 | Luckily he could find nothing wrong but the disbelief was still in his voice . |
| 3 | The pine wood looked just the same as ever , it always did , it was always dark and dense with very narrow passages through it that would surely allow nothing bigger than a fox to weave its way through . |
| 4 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 5 | There 's nothing nicer than an evening hack after a day in the office , and even if you prefer riding earlier , the extra hour of daylight somehow seems to lift the spirits . |
| 6 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 7 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 8 | The plants featured , however , embrace nothing larger than a fly , so humans are quite safe . |
| 9 | For the size of frame illustrated , and smaller , use nothing larger than a 60 watt bulb |
| 10 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
| 11 | The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps . |
| 12 | When Wales lost to Bridgend 10 days ago , home supporters , who would now like nothing better than a Test-match miracle at the Arms Park on 4 November , taunted the beaten team with chants of ‘ Easy ’ . |
| 13 | Li'l Abner — without the colour of the comic strip in the Sunday paper — seemed bogus , and bogus hillbilly at that ; but David and Earl , both schooled in the macho preference for raucous art , liked nothing better than a bogus barnyard . |
| 14 | He enjoys the company of others , likes nothing better than a good dinner surrounded by friends , and large noisy get-togethers with his family . |
| 15 | Poor boy , he had found nothing better than a dirty corner next to a lavatory ! |
| 16 | His putting completely deserted him , three-putts on three successive greens early in this last round and in the end nothing better than a 78 which dropped him far back down the field . |
| 17 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 18 | They seem to assume that because my act is a bit obscene , I 'll like nothing better than a bigoted belly-laugh . |
| 19 | THEY were a typical Seventies university football team — boozy , rowdy , long-haired fun-lovers who liked nothing better than a riotous party . |
| 20 | For Christmas Day there 's nothing better than a sparkler which will carry you through any first course . |
| 21 | But then there was the question of replacing Susy , without James running himself ragged with the thousand-and-one chicks who wanted nothing better than a quick hop in the bed with a world star . |
| 22 | Nothing better than a smoothed way through Customs and Immigration , and ready transportation for the trip into a new city . |
| 23 | If there are to be sacrifices and belt-tightening , the Soviet leaders love nothing better than a backdrop of international threat to add pathos and realism to the drama . |
| 24 | Lady Thatcher liked nothing better than a good old ding-dong , whether her opponent was François Mitterrand or Mikhail Gorbachev or King Kong . |
| 25 | Cue for a queen : Spanish-born Fabiola of Belgium likes nothing better than a quiet game of billiards at home |
| 26 | ‘ I adore children and love nothing better than a household full of youngsters . ’ |
| 27 | I adore children — and love nothing better than a house full of youngsters |
| 28 | He was described by the engineering historian Samuel Smiles [ q.v. ] as a ‘ heavy-browed man without any polish of manner or speech ’ whose head was ‘ a complete repertory of inventions ’ and who liked nothing better than a ‘ tough job ’ . |
| 29 | Well , he enjoyed every moment of it , as though he liked nothing better than a brawl . |
| 30 | Roy Morgan from Gloucester is a life-long darts fan and enjoys nothing better than a game over a glass of rum at his local , the Plough in Tredworth . |