Example sentences of "[conj] be nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a representation would not give rise to an estoppel , because , as was said in Jorden v. Money ( 1854 ) 5 H.L.C. 185 ( below , p.252 ) , a representation as to the future must be embodied as a contract or be nothing . |
| 2 | And the ones we saw in Marks and all that were nothing were they ? |
| 3 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 4 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it has been the recipient of a great deal of hostility that is nothing to do with Snow White moving in on Babar or Tintin 's patch . |
| 6 | The scale and complexity of changes taking place in the field of special needs and the necessary transformation of the teacher-training curriculum imply an agenda for teacher training that is nothing less than retraining and supporting every teacher in the country in working with pupils with special needs . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought it could n't be worse than being made to fight in a war that is nothing to do with me . |
| 8 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 10 | This was true to the extent that he was acting out a drama of his own inventing , he was the protagonist in a play that was nothing but climaxes and intervals . |
| 11 | But I also had charges that was nothing to do with me . |
| 12 | My mind kept going back to the case that was nothing to do with me , the unsolved mystery of the man with a load of live ammunition in his pockets found dead on the Thames mud . |
| 13 | I had a nasty little feeling in my inside that was nothing to do with the sauna . |
| 14 | Try to do something that was nothing to do with the ridiculous lie he had told the headmaster almost a year ago today . |
| 15 | A world that was nothing but image . |
| 16 | Something had gone wrong between him and Suzi that was nothing to do with the theatre . |
| 17 | Tiger mothers are on their own and are nothing like so well protected . |
| 18 | Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them , and the Sea because it has always frustrated me , destroying what I have built , washing away what I have left , wiping clean the marks I have made . |
| 19 | They are bony fish ( with swimbladders ) related to herrings , trout , etc. , and are nothing to do with sharks . |
| 20 | You know that I love you and am nothing without you . |
| 21 | The point of contact with the fable of disembodied consciousness is that thinking has become Raskolnikov 's work , it has almost become Raskolnikov , and if he did and were nothing but this work we would have the first part of Notes from Underground repeated . |
| 22 | And being nothing , being silenced , |
| 23 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ This was purely an editorial decision and was nothing to do with BSkyB . |
| 24 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 25 | Letting all her breath out on an achingly shaky sigh , and telling herself firmly to pull herself together , that seeing a bride always made her feel weepy and was nothing whatever to do with Feargal , she walked along the landing to stare from the end window . |
| 26 | In a statement confirming the party 's refusal to meet the American delegation , Ian Paisley Jnr was quick to claim that Mr Morrison had been ‘ trounced ’ in a congressional election and was nothing more than a ‘ trouble-maker ’ . |
| 27 | We feel this important , however , to counterbalance the view of crime , promoted by the Conservative Party , and accepted by some on the left , as being nothing more than violence , mugging and burglary . |