Example sentences of "be [indef pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these are nothing to the disadvantages I see to just living with a man . |
| 2 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 3 | Were nothing to the upset |
| 4 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 5 | And there 's nothing to the costume — I 've got a string of them from the greengrocer round the comer , for you to hang around your neck … ’ |
| 6 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's nothing to the tizz we 'll be in if we do n't get that barbecue working , ’ she snapped , then went to examine the contents of the hampers . |
| 8 | I 've been infatuated before and it 's nothing to the pain of this . |
| 9 | So what is so there 's nothing to the other side , just apart from this big room ? |
| 10 | Well , I I I mean , it , it , it 's nothing to the stories that were circulating in the late Victorian period about the Duke of |
| 11 | Individual properties have sometimes been made somehow dependent on general properties by these philosophers , but that is nothing to the point . |
| 12 | But if you are shocked by Margi on the television , that is nothing to the uncensored version you get on stage . |
| 13 | And this paragraph 's is something to the effect that your , here is the erm tt the estimate of our work and we 're seeking authority . |
| 14 | Yet the difficulties which some governments have experienced in recent years in delivering political promises that the size of the bureaucracy would be reduced suggest that there is something to the foundation upon which economic models of bureaucracy have been built . |
| 15 | If there IS something to the story , it begs 2 questions : — |
| 16 | If you can get it back that 's why I say do the graph if you can get it back to erm but it 's not just something to the fifth , it 's really It 's something to the tenth . |
| 17 | THE FLOW of cards and bouquets was nothing to the stream of very important people arriving at No 10 Downing Street yesterday . |
| 18 | Her feet and hands were so cold they did n't seem to belong to her , but that was nothing to the coldness inside . |
| 19 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 20 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 21 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but this was nothing to the delighted grandfather . |
| 22 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 23 | In it he told me that the blood he had spilt over my traitor 's proposal — his own blood — was nothing to the blood of the traitors that he would shed if the Aten fell , and it was his lot to take vengeance . ’ |
| 24 | But that was nothing to the agony of never seeing him again , her heart replied despairingly . |
| 25 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 26 | Erm , and it was going on about it was something to the sum insurance ? |