Example sentences of "[conj] nothing but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan stared at the noticeboard on the opposite wall , pretending to read something but seeing nothing but a blur of the leaflets , notes , scraps of ribbon and withered buttonholes which Lucy had pegged up there . |
| 2 | Once out on the big seas of life , we each have to do the best we can , whether we have sails , or engines , or nothing but a wooden paddle . |
| 3 | I just want someone to know that this — all this stuff — has been a burden and nothing but a burden from start to finish , and that I feel no twinge of regret at coming out of that place , and that I shall never go back into it , ever , so help me Frederica Potter . |
| 4 | This has one tiresome consequence , that if one knows only the short title and calendar year , the statute may sometimes be in either of two volumes , and nothing but a process of trial and error can ascertain which . |
| 5 | A fairly young man in Italian leisure wear from the waist down and nothing but a tan from the waist up appeared from a cabin , ready to repel boarders . |
| 6 | A personal problem you thought would be a bed of nails and nothing but a whole heap of hassles and troubles will actually be your big chance to show off your brilliant brain , sensitive nature and warm hearted generosity . |
| 7 | In Castenada 's case , he ‘ enters a world so different that he comes to accept reality itself as nothing but a social construct , with effects so devastating … that ethnography becomes mysticism ’ ( Goward 1984 : 90 ) . |