Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [be] nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | So often , in all this , I have felt that I am nothing . |
| 2 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 3 | She wanted to scream at him that she was nothing like that at all , but was n't she ? |
| 4 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew as soon as I saw you that you were nothing but a piece of filth ! |
| 6 | This leads to the notion that we are nothing more than chemical and mechanical devices , albeit extremely complex and wonderfully integrated ones . |
| 7 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 8 | We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives for his article in the Daily Mirror , but we hope that they are nothing so base as money or even worse our nationality . |
| 9 | According to Dunsire ( 1982 , p. 15 ) , ‘ quango-hunting ’ has since 1979 ‘ become a Conservative blood-sport , under the illusion that they are nothing but wasteful ‘ empire-building ’ ' . |
| 10 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 11 | Mary peeped in to get another look at those wonderful moustaches and said to herself that they were nothing like corkscrews , more like one of those curved oriental swords that would cut right through you . |
| 12 | She had known when she set eyes on them that they were nothing to do with the Smoke and nothing to do with the expedition that was preparing . |
| 13 | She looked at them indulgently , saw at once that they were nothing notable , and said to him straight away that they would not do . |
| 14 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 15 | But , the next day in court , these same stone-throwing anarchists complained that they were nothing more than innocent bystanders , who had been brutalized by policemen and thrown into Black Marias . |
| 16 | That it 's nothing but a coincidence ? |
| 17 | ‘ She 's told me that it 's nothing she regrets . |
| 18 | erm For example if erm two people are walking down the street and there 's a certain amount of jostling , then the victim , if he is a victim , may well consider that it 's not violent , or that it 's nothing out of the ordinary , or that it 's something which is acceptable , and then not take the matter any farther . |
| 19 | ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance . |
| 20 | Be prepared to consider the possibility that it is nothing to do with food . |
| 21 | But the New Testament writers insist with one voice that it is nothing of the kind . |
| 22 | When the hon. Member for Derby , South is pressed , she makes a clear statement that it is nothing but an aspiration . |
| 23 | Harvey 's group , for example , found that peeling paint in the home related to lower IQ , but that it was nothing to do with lead in the paint , relating more probably to the influence of the parents . |
| 24 | He came round at once , and said that it was nothing to worry about ; Susan was worn out , that was all , and must stay in bed for a few days . |
| 25 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 26 | There was also the possibility that Myeloski was wrong , that it was nothing more than a string of coincidences . |
| 27 | He said that it was nothing to do with him ; it was a matter for the Department of the Environment . |
| 28 | Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him . |
| 29 | ‘ After a while I stopped blaming myself and simply accepted the fact that it was nothing personal , no major failing on my part , it was simply the way Claire was . |
| 30 | He has been known to refuse autographs by pleading that he 's nothing special and really does n't warrant such attention . |