Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pron] be nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | P.S. I would like for Monica Seles ' fans to know that there 's nothing personal in my mentioning her , but given the circumstances I think I am right in using her as she did n't commit herself to the Tour Events much last year . |
| 2 | But Dalgliesh had n't needed his private source of department gossip to know that there was nothing of this limp subservience about Paul Berowne . |
| 3 | He had ignored everything she had said previously to indicate that there was nothing between her and Florian , so why should tonight be any different ? |
| 4 | ‘ Why do you continue to pretend that there is nothing more between us than a common interest in two wayward adolescents ? ’ |
| 5 | I did n't want to accept defeat , to acknowledge that there was nothing I — nor anyone else — could do to help , ’ Ace replied , and it silenced her for a moment , as perhaps it was meant to do . |
| 6 | It is sobering to report that there is nothing in it . |
| 7 | He ventured to suggest that there was nothing in the manner in which they had brought the concern into its active and productive state of working , which ought to subject them to such new and vexatious problems . |
| 8 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 9 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 10 | Prior to the Geneva meeting , moreover , Bush continued to emphasize that there was nothing negotiable about the requirement for an Iraqi withdrawal , nor any " linkage " with the issue of a Palestinian homeland . |
| 11 | The guitar is conventionally equipped with two volume and two tone pots , just like a Gibson SG , and John Diggins is quick to add that there 's nothing fancy about the wiring . |
| 12 | ‘ Saving your presence sir , ’ said Sergeant Bramble , ‘ I tried to explain that there was nothing amiss and that you 'd be back in time for supper with Miss Nicole . |
| 13 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 14 | He went on to say that there was nothing at all from the last decade for which he could give Mrs Thatcher credit . |
| 15 | Illustrated were no less than two aero-engines , one in-line , the other rotary , two motor-cycles , various fuselage insignia and other items , which only goes to show that there is nothing new in collecting such things . |
| 16 | When , however , need and dare are used non-assertively , it is possible for the speaker to feel that there is nothing real ( no real need or daring ) situated in time to constitute a before-position in relation to the event evoked by the infinitive , and so to use the bare infinitive after these verbs as with the modals . |
| 17 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 18 | Fatima was very concerned about her health , but Jane was amused to note that there was nothing wrong with her lungs . |