Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] be nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says , the quiz will contain some sixty questions covering general knowledge and not just railway so so that there is , not very good grammar , so that there is nothing for the family to be afraid of . |
| 2 | Her skin was sallow since the fever , and her little face was pinched with the cold so that there was nothing attractive about her . |
| 3 | Dr John Curtis , Keeper of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum , said yesterday that there was nothing like it in the world . |
| 4 | She looked at them indulgently , saw at once that they were nothing notable , and said to him straight away that they would not do . |
| 5 | One young woman , Lucy , told how sad she felt that her mother had very low self-esteem , believed she was unattractive and overweight — even said once that there was nothing she could do or be that Lucy and her sisters ‘ could n't do or be better ’ , which made Lucy feel envied and forced into competition with her mother , when she did n't want to be . |
| 6 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 7 | If there was not , A might still believe that B was looking for something to steal , which could constitute an attempt to steal under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 notwithstanding that there was nothing there that B would have stolen . |
| 8 | Rose wished that they could be married quickly but now that there was nothing in the way of it Moran grew cautious and evasive . |
| 9 | Their problem is often that there is nothing to explore except a bare concrete cell , and this frustrates them intensely . |
| 10 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 11 | Indeed , we would assert most emphatically that there is nothing within the stories themselves to explain any change in the divine response , let alone a change as complete and as dramatic as the two series report . |
| 12 | If other people have had other experiences , if if they share erm , er Nelly 's er belief there that there is nothing that can be done about it ? 's the number to dial and we 'll have some more calls in a moment . |
| 13 | The year is 1895 , proving once again that there is nothing new . |
| 14 | Predictably Michael Palin 's Pole to Pole was the runaway Christmas hit , proving once again that there is nothing like a television series to help sales of a book — Heffers sold between 1,300 and 1,400 copies . |
| 15 | ‘ Beyond that there 's nothing much you can say . ’ |
| 16 | Beyond that there was nothing to say . |