Example sentences of "be nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 2 | Perhaps his worst betrayal had been nothing to do with unburnt papers , it had been whatever he had conceded , or let slip , or left ambiguous , at the second long examination after arriving in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | There has been nothing remotely resembling intellectual coherence . |
| 4 | He then draws the breathtaking conclusion that ‘ there has been nothing resembling intellectual coherence ’ . |
| 5 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's been nothing like it since the Bible , ’ said an obviously excited spokesperson for the book 's publishers , Transworld . |
| 7 | But for the sheer number of performances , there has been nothing to compare with the serial trials of white collar criminals . |
| 8 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 9 | There has been nothing like it in human history . |
| 10 | Indeed , some of the samples I 've been sent have been nothing short of rubbish . |
| 11 | There had been nothing written , only a long-standing tacit agreement about the brooch . |
| 12 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
| 13 | Until 1988 there had been nothing to indicate an increase in Palestinian confidence in the United States . |
| 14 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 15 | It was now thrashing feebly about in the straw trying to get its tangle of legs in order , a whole , complete , new horse — when five minutes ago there had been nothing at all save him thinking Firelight had indigestion . |
| 16 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 17 | There had been nothing like it in the UK before . |
| 18 | Yet , during all this period , there has been nothing to prevent the applicant from pressing ahead with all speed on the actual construction of the mink farm on Trondra . |
| 19 | It 's been nothing but Dennis , Dennis , Dennis ( or days now . |
| 20 | Kalchu , his face red from alcohol and anger , his breath coming in short shallow gasps , said that he 'd lived and worked in India for several years and that there he 'd been nothing . |
| 21 | These developments were the minutiae by which an intrinsically superior sparkling wine came to be refined , but without a raw product of unique potential there would have been nothing to refine . |
| 22 | Then added more calmly : ‘ There 's been nothing on television or in the papers about any cut on the victims ’ foreheads . |
| 23 | There 's been nothing in the media about the hair either , but that piece of unpleasantness seems to be generally known . |
| 24 | Yet since his father 's death there had been nothing between him and his sister but companionship , affection , peace . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 27 | THERE has been nothing amicable about this arrangement . |
| 28 | THERE has been nothing amicable about this arrangement . |
| 29 | There has been nothing amicable about this arrangement . |
| 30 | There has been nothing to complain about . |