Example sentences of "[coord] nothing is " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 2 | If ‘ story ’ suggests a narrative sequence towards which Double Or Nothing is gesturing , Federman it the same time questions each fictional possibility so thoroughly that the only reliable sequence becomes the narrative voice which is constantly shifting in person and tone . |
| 3 | Modern beliefs , one might think , ought to be in the rationalist mould of the Enlightenment , but little or nothing is taught about the psychology of consciousness in schools , except in terms of religious studies . |
| 4 | That way little or nothing is revealed . |
| 5 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 6 | At present little or nothing is known about these patients . |
| 7 | I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating . |
| 8 | In this country everything is a secret — and nothing is secret . ’ |
| 9 | For a Hindu woman nothing is more important than possessing a husband and nothing is luckier than to have a loving and caring husband . |
| 10 | He does n't let anything happen by chance , and nothing is wasted during preparation , checking the course , the driving range , chipping and putting and checking equipment . |
| 11 | In the course of the plays , these elements of the mythic equation ceaselessly combine , entwine , and recombine as the archetypes refract , reflect and fuse into each other ( ‘ and nothing is but what is not ’ ) . |
| 12 | If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ . |
| 13 | Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane . |
| 14 | They , or something like them , are admirable and important and we must strive to make them political realities , but they are not in themselves law and nothing is gained by pretending that they are law . |
| 15 | ( The Siege of Troy is available in the same series and is my own favourite of the three , with Helen , Menelaus , Hector and Achilles , and Memnon with the ‘ dark cloud ’ of his warriors from countries so hot that men 's skins are burnt black and nothing is white about them except their teeth . |
| 16 | This book is about childhood , a time when only the surroundings show , and nothing is explained . |
| 17 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 18 | This is a question to be considered in the round , and nothing is gained by the introduction of shifting burdens of proof , which serves only to break down into formal steps what is in reality a single appreciation of what is or is not unfair . |
| 19 | And nothing is going to stop me singing Margarita tonight ! ’ |
| 20 | Patients believe that their doctor , to the best of his or her ability , is following two rules : everything that is beneficial is being done , and nothing is being done that is not directly beneficial . |
| 21 | I keep getting this feeling it 's already there , like in quantum physics , where matter is mostly space , and space , even the vacuum , seethes with creation and annihilation all the time , and nothing is absolute , and two particles at opposite ends of the universe react together as soon as one 's interfered with ; all that stuff . |
| 22 | Donald is reputed to have fled to the ( Western ) Isles , and nothing is known of him during the reigns of Macbeth and Malcolm III . |
| 23 | Social learning theorists say that everything you are is a result of socialisation — everything is learnt and nothing is innate . |
| 24 | Social learning theory does not take into account the biological and genetic factors of nature however , in believing that everything is learnt and nothing is innate and sometimes these must be taken into account . |
| 25 | Business and employers organizations are well represented in parliament their secret funding of the Tory Party buys them influence and Tory Party policies , and nothing is said . |
| 26 | However , as a result of my 23 years in teaching , I know that people like that remain in post and nothing is done about it . |
| 27 | ‘ One reason is that linen is an ecologically sound product and nothing is wasted from the plant . |
| 28 | Further , while there are indeed token-reflexive or self-referring expressions in natural languages , as in ( 12 ) and , arguably , in ( 13 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) : ( 12 ) This sentence contains five words ( 13 ) I hereby apologize these pose formidable problems for logical analysis , and nothing is gained by assimilating indexicals to token-reflexives if this can possibly be avoided . |
| 29 | ‘ With money so tight and nothing is heard from local communities the facility could be lost by stealth . |
| 30 | Mr Boyle said : ‘ We have considered a number of alternatives and nothing is immediately suitable . |