Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italians think of the state system much as Britons used to regard ‘ Auntie ’ and not for nothing is it known as ‘ Mamma RAI ’ . |
| 2 | It is to the new city rulers that the origins of banking are usually attributed ; not for nothing is the home of the London banking community called Lombard Street . |
| 3 | Not for nothing is water polo an Italian expression to describe business life : the fouls are done with the feet under the water where the umpire can not see them . ’ |
| 4 | Not for nothing is New York mocked by some as Moscow-on-the-Hudson . |
| 5 | Not for nothing is the first chapter of his book called Creating the Space . |
| 6 | Not for nothing is the score studded with markings such as ‘ en pleurant ’ , ‘ très libre ’ , ‘ avec amour ’ . |
| 7 | Shiva is a bad-tempered chap — not for nothing is he known as ‘ the Destroyer ’ . |
| 8 | well he thinks he 's gon na get his tiles for nothing is n't he , Geoff ? |
| 9 | Not for nothing are black holes called black . |
| 10 | Not for nothing was it dubbed the ‘ Triumph Snag ’ . |
| 11 | When baking a cake , manufacturers of cake-mixes were told , women were acting out symbolically the birth of a child ( not for nothing was the vulgar phrase for pregnancy a ‘ bun in the oven ’ ) . |
| 12 | Not for nothing was she dubbed BB — pronounced Bébé . |
| 13 | Not for nothing was he known as Windy — when upset he really did ‘ blow his top ’ but his bark was worse than his bite — he was an excellent teacher and took both Standards Six and Seven . |
| 14 | Not for nothing was she known as ‘ Whiplash Wallace ’ . |
| 15 | Last one this is the these are reports incidentally by er European doctors working in China at the time Another desperate case that we treated for nothing was that of a young man who looked like a skeleton . |
| 16 | Not for nothing was one of his nicknames ‘ Oily ’ . |
| 17 | Not for nothing were such power stations described as ‘ brick cathedrals ’ ; Bankside is the finest manifestation of this tradition . |
| 18 | The best thing about them is their smell . |
| 19 | What is notable about them is not that they are black , but that they do not have dogs . |
| 20 | It is , of course , very easy to pay too much attention to the famous names in Nonconformity , partially because of their importance , partially because information about them is more readily available and partially because they tended to be more involved in politics . |
| 21 | The point about them is that , uniquely in the Province , they are both Unionist and resolutely non-sectarian . |
| 22 | One of the nice things about them is that they are situated in one of the quieter areas between Palma Nova and Magalluf , but it is only a short walk to the beaches and nightlife of both resorts . |
| 23 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 24 | There are good habits and bad habits but the main point about them is that they are all behaviour patterns which have been so thoroughly learned that they are done automatically without any conscious effort . |
| 25 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 26 | Their turnover rate is somewhat slower than undergravels and what could be worrying about them is their ability to deal with sudden surges in load . |
| 27 | The LP has just confirmed the fact that the most interesting thing about them is their hard-earned reputation as the hell-raising punks that everyone loves to hate . |
| 28 | Everything about them is traditional : bluesy licks , Whitfield Crane 's sneering vocals , lyrics about being the devil , a bum , or a mixed-up kid . |
| 29 | After the heights scaled in that quarter-final , Ireland plunged to six feet under in this match proving , in the course of the game , that the only predictable thing about them is their unpredictability . |
| 30 | What you can do about them is another matter which we shall deal with . |