Example sentences of "[coord] nothing [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mariana did n't look up so the smile Trent gave her was a waste of time and he could n't think of anything else to say , or nothing that would make any difference . |
| 2 | Nothing moved at the crossroads , or nothing that threatened a soldier 's life . |
| 3 | And nothing that takes place within the nervous system can explain why this property of intentionality should emerge there . |
| 4 | But I repeated them in Ezra Pound. : Poet as Sculptor , and nothing that has come to my notice since , including an erudite and adulatory article on these cantos by David Gordon in Paideuma 4 ( 1975 ) , has made me want to retract my words or change my mind . |
| 5 | ‘ … this is only the beginning of what they will do ; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them ’ ( 11.6 ) . |
| 6 | She ‘ takes in ’ children in her house at Brighton , and is known as ‘ a great manager ’ of children ; the secret of that management was ‘ to give them everything they did n't like , and nothing that they did ’ . |
| 7 | People will help themselves and save you a lot of work , as will buying paper plates for everyone to use and making the buffet a finger buffet with lots of little bits and pieces of food , and nothing that has to be served onto a plate with a spoon or cut up with a knife and fork . |
| 8 | It 's an age-old problem and nothing that a dab of string lubricant or Vaseline would n't cure . |
| 9 | They are everything and nothing that rock'n'roll is meant to be . |
| 10 | Bainbridge L. V. ’ had done it , and nothing that happened now — absolutely nothing -would be half as bad as that first terrifying signal . |
| 11 | There was to be no self-dramatisation and nothing that would set Amnesty International apart from the very people that it was seeking to protect from the same potential threat . |
| 12 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 13 | ‘ And nothing that people say or do can detract from this . |
| 14 | Nothing for the archives and nothing that could be sold off , this bric-a-brac had obviously been stored against the possibility of some surviving and previously untraced relative appearing to claim it . |
| 15 | ‘ And nothing that can do him any good , either . ’ |
| 16 | Definitely no pier and nothing that looked like a break in the reef . |
| 17 | At Liverpool the Principal wrote , also at the end of 1967 , that within the new polytechnic ‘ there will be complete autonomy in respect of the academic work of the Faculty of Art and nothing that has been said causes me to have any misgivings on this score . |
| 18 | And nothing that has happened to us since then … neither our separation , nor misguided , foolish pride on both our parts … nothing can ever change or alter my deep love for you . ’ |
| 19 | Everything that was ugly and nothing that was beautiful . |
| 20 | News film of the General Assembly disturbance shows much shouting and placard waving but nothing that comes near the sort of heckling and barracking to which present-day government ministers are regularly subjected in visits to the north of England ! |
| 21 | John Major 's speech-making qualities are , if anything , less impressive but nothing that six one-hour lessons from Miss Davies — £60 each plus VAT — would not have cured . |
| 22 | The broom was there , sawdust , a pile of dirty pots , two kegs of ale , but nothing that might do for a skirt . |
| 23 | But nothing that a good dietitian and orthodontist could n't put right . |
| 24 | She had been told that having children might present problems , but nothing that could not be managed . |
| 25 | But nothing that makes him public ; because that makes me public . ’ |
| 26 | For dysuria , for haematuria , slightly more possibly in the i in the Pasteur group but nothing that reaches statistical significance . |
| 27 | The transfer may become null and void , as here , or the certificate may not be renewed , as in Miller , but nothing that can happen to the transfer or transferee will ever revive the right of a man who , ex hypothesi , has removed or yielded up possession of the premises to which the certificate relates . " |
| 28 | Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples . |
| 29 | She saw three public houses and a shop selling papers , but nothing that looked a likely candidate . |
| 30 | Francis could have been involved in something a bit shady but nothing that would have brought him within range of any violence . |