Example sentences of "nothing in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing in the stories to suggest that either of these lyrical Klimas has the makings of the hero of the state imagined by Kundera . |
| 2 | There was nothing in the studies on the differences between individual catholic schools , either in terms of pupil experiences or the varieties of educational practice and personnel in each school . |
| 3 | Because nothing in his work stands up and says : Look at me , look how true , beautiful , profound , etc . |
| 4 | Each element nothing in itself , but whole more than sum of parts , he wrote . |
| 5 | Nothing in the final results leads you to sense of how it was achieved . |
| 6 | There was nothing in his face to show how much he enjoyed teasing his only sister . |
| 7 | She certainly complained of nothing in his hearing . |
| 8 | Nothing in this order changes the already existing practices exercised in connection with courses or papers overseen by the Regional Inspector Training Unit or Police College . |
| 9 | There was sweet nothing in the way of nectar and what duped flowers had burst out of the ground were in for a shock when the frosts came . |
| 10 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 11 | We have then reached the absurd position that nothing in the world possesses a knowable intrinsic or qualitative nature , for all properties are essentially relational . |
| 12 | However , there is nothing in the White Paper to act as a positive incentive for such work , and Age Concern is worried by the proposal in Working Paper 3 that once allocations are made to practices holding their own budgets , they will be free to shift expenditure within the year between the individual components of the budget . |
| 13 | We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind . |
| 14 | Nothing in him matches his deed . |
| 15 | Verkhovensky has courage ( though in its lower forms of which Plato speaks ) , but otherwise there is nothing in common between the two young men except the times they live in . |
| 16 | But in Saussure 's system there are only the two terms , Signifier and Signified , with nothing in the third column . |
| 17 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 18 | There is nothing in this phrase with which David Owen could quarrel . |
| 19 | Nothing in Swannell 's direction of his play persuades you that this would not have been a better home for Marrakech . |
| 20 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 21 | ‘ My relatives used to come over and say : ‘ There 's nothing in the shops ’ , and I thought it was ridiculous , because there was plenty , ’ a 47-year-old lathe operator from Dresden told me yesterday . |
| 22 | I came back and saw it was true : there is nothing in the shops . ’ |
| 23 | And he did nothing in his life of exploration to introduce any of them to the places he saw . |
| 24 | The Poles did not look much of a side at all when they lost 3-0 at Wembley in June and , although they have improved since under new management , there is nothing in their results to suggest that they have recovered the standard of the team that put Sir Alf Ramsey 's England out of the World Cup in 1973 . |
| 25 | There was nothing in my background to suggest I would n't be just another East End kid . ’ |
| 26 | Her son Michael 's memory of her had nothing in it that was not good ; a woman radiant , friendly , outgoing , understanding . |
| 27 | He felt apart ; withdrawn ; like Newman , feeling there was nothing in the world but God and his soul . |
| 28 | There is nothing in common between all this , which consists in ‘ real , services , and the fixing and payment of money benefits , financed in great part by one special tax called ‘ contributions ’ — at least there is nothing common to these two functions which justifies demands for their being the province of one minister . |
| 29 | In five years a machine is counted as nothing in the balance sheet , but people count and age makes them more experienced , gives them better judgement — if they 're capable of learning , which most people are . |
| 30 | Rose wished that they could be married quickly but now that there was nothing in the way of it Moran grew cautious and evasive . |