Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] [pron] be nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 2 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 3 | ‘ Soaps like Neighbours are pure entertainment and there is nothing wrong with that . |
| 4 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 5 | She flung aside her heavy bedroom curtains and pressed her face to the cold glass but there was nothing there , just the quiet , empty blackness which enveloped the families all over Cornwall who were turning the trencher in a thousand drawing-rooms . |
| 6 | The , the , there was a very old car , , one , in a beautiful car but there was nothing left of the car , you could n't even |
| 7 | Said Kenny : ‘ Brian is a very committed Englishman and there is nothing wrong with that . |
| 8 | In the distance comes the familiar note of a Deltic engine but there 's nothing scheduled . |
| 9 | Sometimes he 'd look across at me , when my mum was deep in a copy of Psychic News and there was nothing on the television , any time from May to October . |
| 10 | Buying promise has a certain value but there is nothing exclusive about promise . |
| 11 | Marketing manager Guy Sabini said : ‘ It is a slightly fun product and there is nothing wrong with that . |
| 12 | It was as if the moor were the whole world and there was nothing anywhere but the moor . |