Example sentences of "nothing [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing vulgar about these hands , not like his wife 's plebeian paws with their chilblains and chipped red enamel . |
| 2 | But there was nothing strange about that . |
| 3 | There 's nothing strange about me . ’ |
| 4 | And there was nothing strange about that , because he had always waved . |
| 5 | Nothing strange about that . ’ |
| 6 | Nothing strange about my match angling upbringing , my heroes , I suppose , were shared with many aspiring anglers of my youth . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's nothing strange about that , ’ Rory shot back . |
| 8 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 9 | I saw nothing strange in his behaviour , but it is evident from the literature that the families of anorexics often include a member who either suffers from a psychosomatic complaint or shows an obsessive interest in food and its health-giving properties . |
| 10 | In principle , there is nothing strange in this . |
| 11 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 12 | There is nothing covert about this operation . |
| 13 | He should not have been ashamed of his grandfather , of course , but his upbringing had been pitiful , constantly on the march from one to another of a whole series of ‘ uncles ’ — there were several between his father and the solicitor — so that he had nothing stable in his life at all . |
| 14 | There is nothing subjective in the act of thinking . ’ |
| 15 | For example , the Department of Health and Social Services is putting a lot of money into funding health visitors to visit first-time mothers , but some would argue that there is nothing innovative about this . |
| 16 | Quite normal duties for a revenue cutter , but there was nothing normal about that particular week we spent in Ullapool at the end of which we all felt as though we had been through a wringer . |
| 17 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 18 | No real brilliance , nothing outstanding in class or sports , but there was an individuality there . |
| 19 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 20 | She was intrigued and , as her meeting with him was social , she found nothing odd about the offer of a drink . |
| 21 | There is nothing odd about that . |
| 22 | Monsieur Bonte , a pastor recently installed in the neighbouring village of Warquignies , saw nothing odd in his amazing behaviour , which , he said , ‘ revealed the originality of his aspirations ’ . |
| 23 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 24 | To most academics , this sort of perspective seems perfectly natural , and they see nothing odd in someone working on a problem or book for years . |
| 25 | I here is nothing odd in that , for the two activities call for separate sets of accomplishments . |
| 26 | There is nothing odd in this ; the academic freedoms that the academic community enjoys generate their own academic ethic which members of the academic community should fulfil if they are to warrant those privileges ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 27 | There was nothing odd in the stuff , as far as the Inspector could see . |
| 28 | There is nothing odd in it . |
| 29 | " Gqozo must pay for [ the ] massacre , " he told mourners , " there was nothing accidental about Bisho . |
| 30 | Yet there is nothing inherent in the nature of work to produce such responses . |