Example sentences of "nothing [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 2 | He controlled an efficient network of spies : nothing could be said in Delhi without Aurangzeb coming to hear of it . |
| 3 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 4 | For the moment , nothing would be said to Oliver himself . |
| 5 | A nihilistic view about the policy implications of recent theoretical work in the area of vertical restraints would be that , since almost anything can happen , nothing can be said about policy . |
| 6 | But it is important to note that since nothing can be said about the magnitudes of the differences between the various elements along the continuum , none of the standard arithmetic operations can legitimately be used . |
| 7 | Of the promotions made under Cnut , nothing can be said of the origins of Ælfric II of Elmham , Leofgar of Lichfield , Brihtmær of Lichfield and Æthelric of Selsey , or of the reasons why Ælfric Puttoc , the praepositus of Winchester , was made archbishop of York in 1023 . |
| 8 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |