Example sentences of "[noun] be nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athletico are nothing but money-grabbing bastards . |
| 2 | From the point of view of certain owners , these diet-shifts are nothing but a nuisance , but if ever , for some dramatic reason , the cat found itself without its usual owner , they would stand it in good stead . |
| 3 | But if he likes ( or does n't like ) you , status and money are nothing to Jamie . |
| 4 | And so the words turned back on themselves , phrases reappeared , seeming to confirm other phrases , merely repeating themselves , clicking into place with a semblance of logic which nicely disguised the truth that all these words were nothing but a glittering fabric which hovered above the ground , unwinding endlessly , slipping between the fingers , beguiling like a mirage , taking on whatever shape the conjuror wanted , and leading nowhere . |
| 5 | The natives were treacherous people , as everyone knew , ungodly and faithless , and their early shows of friendship were nothing but a ruse to lull the pioneers into a false feeling of security , so that they could ensnare them in their false enchantments , pounce on them unawares and kill them while they slept . |
| 6 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 7 | Marijuana is nothing like taking heroin , smack , whatever , it 's nothing like it ! |
| 8 | As I am fully conscious of the importance of preserving national unity , I propose to give your Government complete support in the vigorous prosecution of the War ; but unity without action is nothing but futile carnage , and I can not be responsible for that . |
| 9 | Red blood is nothing before a blue stocking ! ’ |
| 10 | The hand had the warmth of personal feeling , whereas the theatrical sigh with which she said her last words was nothing but an actressy trick from a bad radio play . |
| 11 | Men , it seemed , were scarcely tolerated in the Jarman household and Mr Hawkins was nothing but a leftover from the days when old Mr Jarman was alive . |
| 12 | But British concern about a high-placed Communist conspiracy was nothing to American paranoia . |
| 13 | This immense physical distress was nothing to his internal agony . |
| 14 | Those guests up in the holiday village are nothing like these people , Doctor . |
| 15 | Reasons for my dismissal were nothing like I think I deserved . |
| 16 | When I tried asking the girls I interviewed about them I was often met with a shrug , or a short ‘ no problem ’ reply , as if periods were nothing at all , of no significance , and certainly none to a book on looks , fashion and body-image . |
| 17 | Three farmsteads were nothing but black , glittering wood and a column of smoke where a vat of fish-oil had overturned into a brazier , or a roasting-fire got out of hand , or a guttering candle caught hangings . |
| 18 | A SELF-STYLED showbiz entrepre-neur 's widely-publicised claims for a brand-new TV soap to rival Coronation Street and EastEnders were nothing but a load of froth . |
| 19 | I had a glimpse of a fair-haired girl staring wide-eyed and terrified from a tennis court , her racket held loose by her side and tennis balls scattered at her feet and , though the trees and buildings and gardens were nothing but a high-speed blur , my mind nevertheless registered with a startling clarity that the girl had been completely naked . |
| 20 | If top panel is without perspective and bottom is nothing but perspective , then is that not the place for a different kind of vision ? |
| 21 | This is a superficially attractive theory , but the proposed phoneme is nothing like the other phonemes we have identified up to this point — putting it simply , it does n't have any sound . |
| 22 | Their marriage was nothing to Schmidt , nothing to Jay 's other close business associates . |
| 23 | Next morning the whole village was nothing but an island in a lake of rain . |
| 24 | Alicia Lockwood was nothing to him , merely a connection with his wife 's first husband . |
| 25 | Unfortunately Dunbar was nothing like a full day 's ride from Dalwolsey , barely twenty miles , and by fair roads ; and Fraser , a grizzled veteran , was scarcely the man to try to involve in an unnecessary overnight stop in the interests of romance , however chivalric . |
| 26 | To Lord John , Sharpe was nothing but a killer who had been trained and hardened to death on innumerable battlefields , while Lord John had only ever brought about the death of foxes . |
| 27 | And when they got there , they found that both anticipation and anxiety had overestimated the occasion , for like the reception at the Hôtel de Ville , the dance was nothing but a stifling , uncomfortable , noisy , joyless crush . |
| 28 | Makepeace 's classes are nothing but advanced courses in riot-fomentation . |
| 29 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 30 | Upon leaving the League 's Palace Greisser said loudly : ‘ This place is nothing but wind . ’ |