Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 2 | There had been nothing casual about that kiss . |
| 3 | He had been nothing other than polite since that confrontation they had had on the deck , maintaining the charade of their relationship with apparent ease , yet Fran had sensed the tension behind the smiling façade . |
| 4 | He thought it was part of the nightmare at first , though up to then there 'd been nothing much to scream about . |
| 5 | There had been nothing dramatic , no great debate , just a lot of jokes and heavy irony to start with , then a gradual , gentle separation . |
| 6 | Indeed , some of the samples I 've been sent have been nothing short of rubbish . |
| 7 | Levi 's support base was within the large Sephardi community ( members or descendants of the western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and latterly in north Africa , as opposed to the Askhenazi — the northern European Yiddish-speaking Jews ) , and many of his supporters claimed that the Shamir-Arens-Sharon collaboration had been nothing short of ethnic discrimination by the " Ashkenazi bosses " . |
| 8 | No player has a higher profile at the moment than Kilkenny 's lethal forward whose scoring feats this year have been nothing short of phenomenal . |
| 9 | There had been nothing solitary about Ludovico 's life . |
| 10 | There would have been nothing improper in his paying court to Heather , had she not been his patient . |
| 11 | PAUL LINEHAM has a story about being at home in Cork at Christmas and having to keep the band 's first two EPs by the side of his bed , so scared was he that the previous three months had been nothing more than a ‘ fierce dream ’ . |
| 12 | This , however , may have been nothing more than the fact that nuclear energy constituted a clearly defined and nascent policy sector , and one which , since unlike other policy areas such as coal or agriculture there were hardly any national interests or groups to consider , could quite easily be separated from the rest of national policy making . |
| 13 | He glanced over his shoulder again , and discovered that the two men were nowhere to be seen — it had been nothing more than his imagination . |
| 14 | In all probability it really had been nothing more than a prank . |
| 15 | As though she had been nothing more than a vulnerable female creature in the presence of her mate . |
| 16 | All the tenderness he 'd shown her had been nothing more than a sham , just a front to convince the interested public that they were lovers . |
| 17 | ‘ There has certainly been nothing wrong with its stay at the East Lancs Railway . |
| 18 | There 's been nothing wrong with me all day is there Bet ? |
| 19 | THERE has been nothing amicable about this arrangement . |
| 20 | THERE has been nothing amicable about this arrangement . |
| 21 | There has been nothing amicable about this arrangement . |
| 22 | If you look back to saturday youll see that there s nothing wrong with the team . |
| 23 | Externally conformist and controlled , her journal functions as the confidant she never had : ‘ My head feels empty and I am nothing particular . |
| 24 | Extremes in the weather are nothing new for the British garden and one fairly safe prediction for 1990 is that the weather will be as unpredictable as ever . |
| 25 | Whale strandings are nothing new around the British isles , and careful records have been kept since 1913 . |
| 26 | Moralist and anti-porn campaigns are nothing new . |
| 27 | ‘ Recessions are nothing new to us , ’ says Mr Nearn . |
| 28 | Maternal instincts are nothing new to Cher . |
| 29 | Discount supermarkets like this are nothing new . |
| 30 | Ethernet switches are nothing new : both Kalpana Inc and 3Com Corp have implementations . |