Example sentences of "[pron] nothing [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why its nothing but an old privet bush , ‘ scoffed the grown-ups . |
| 2 | As a consequence , the changes produced will tell you nothing about the normal functions of that part . |
| 3 | If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants . |
| 4 | Her own afforded her nothing but a transient thrill , but mine supplied another dose of semen to chuck at the uterine wall where , sooner or later , she reckoned , some of it must stick . |
| 5 | In the distance the curving edge of it ; everywhere else below her nothing but the flat expanse of mottled brown and grey . |
| 6 | He says sure , he was clean all right , and the screws left him nothing but a shit-soiled bucket and two aspirin to sort himself out with . |
| 7 | Second , the new schemes of metazoan phylogeny tell us nothing about the actual anatomical and functional transitions between related phyla . |
| 8 | Moreover , an explicit claim to multiple points of view tells us nothing about the actual practice of using them . |
| 9 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 10 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 11 | But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time . |