Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you think I am a some kind of idiot ! |
| 2 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 3 | They say she was no more than a skeleton . |
| 4 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 5 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 6 | Training Ffestiniog slate men one of these days they say there is no more Ffestiniog slate and that 's it its gone bankrupt and er But I mean that can be easily arranged sort of thing . |
| 7 | Its disciples talk of new values , its detractors say there 's no such thing as new when you 're a hardened pro — just good and bad , successful and unsuccessful . |
| 8 | Angola wants Mr Savimbi to go into voluntary exile while elections are held , perhaps to return later , but his supporters say there was no such agreement . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect they 're the same ones he used to tell me . ’ |
| 10 | A lot of things that I 'd still do here if , if I could whip up some enthusiasm if my husband would , I ca n't , he was a bricklayer , sub contractor and they have knocked this kitchen out about three times since they 've been there , and the last , this last effort , I think they 've put imitation beams in , I have n't seen it , but we think they have and er , oh it 's , you would n't know it 's the same house at all , you would n't know it |
| 11 | I do n't know he 's the same s in South Ronaldsay or not would he be different s ? |
| 12 | Yeah but as I say it 's the same as when you know we come over when we went up to the |
| 13 | So you say it was a few railway men that got together and |
| 14 | You see , we ca n't really know , that erm , we ca n't really know what is the most cost effective solution , can we ? |
| 15 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 16 | Everybody says we 're the same anyway ! |
| 17 | The law says there are no such things as lesbians . |
| 18 | He says there 's no such thing as a citizens arrest . |
| 19 | Richard Dunwoody says there 's no more pressure than usual and he can handle it … |
| 20 | It would appear there 's a few . |
| 21 | Lindsey frowned , certain that Jill had said there were no more patients , and the frown deepened as she looked up and saw Niall Grant . |
| 22 | Okay Suzanne before you go for your first sail there are a few things you need to learn about basic boat controls . |
| 23 | I assumed there were a few rounds left in the magazine . |
| 24 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 25 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 26 | You could say a fourth it does n't matter it 's the same thing . |
| 27 | It 's a relatively large sum , but Simon 's solicitor says it 's the least he deserves . |
| 28 | Paul Stephens says it was no more than New Zealand 's third string side with the best 30 on tour ( though Turner and Cooper played against the World XV and Seymour and Rush were picked to tour South Africa ) . |
| 29 | It would be dangerous to suggest that this impossibility is in any strong sense theoretical , i.e. open to mathematical proof , and I will assume it is no more than a strong empirical impossibility . |
| 30 | Not only does the hearer assume it is the same ‘ man ’ who is being talked about throughout , he also assumes that the man will stay in the same place unless the speaker announces that he moves . |