Example sentences of "be [indef pn] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 2 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
| 3 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 4 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 5 | All these ‘ signs ’ of ‘ inadequacy ’ are nothing of the kind but are indicators of poverty and powerlessness . |
| 6 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 7 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Cameron , ‘ there has been plenty of thinking . |
| 9 | There have been plenty of good writers who were also Christians . |
| 10 | Although advances such as secondary high-limit thermostats , which cut off the power if the fryer overheats , are now fitted as standard on almost all machines , there have been plenty of other developments . |
| 11 | Here we go again , said everyone , and they were right ; on the first two days there had been plenty of cloud to help the bowlers , but on the Saturday the sun shone and West Indies made the most of it . |
| 12 | Rulers who let their hearts rule their heads tended to court disaster , be they male or female ; and there have been plenty of examples of both . |
| 13 | There has been plenty of advice on what to stock and , as he is still learning about what Sutton Coldfield customers may want , he has been happy to listen . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure there have been plenty of men since , ’ he said , considerably piqued . |
| 15 | Let's face it , there have already been plenty of situation comedies in this situation before . |
| 16 | Clearly Vincent was out of his mind , There had been plenty of signs : eccentric dress , abnormal behaviour , violent outbursts , irrational hostility . |
| 17 | One form about which there has been plenty of discussion is the Supplementary Statistical Document , known as the intrastat . |
| 18 | For those who prefer the familiar punchcard machine , there have also been plenty of advances and now we report on the latest of them , the Brother KH864 . |
| 19 | Despite the reports of political violence and killing , there has been plenty of genuine electioneering . |
| 20 | The marker has stayed back ever since and there have been plenty of reminders of his erstwhile self ; enough , one trusts , to restore him to selectorial favour come tour time . |
| 21 | Ahead of us I could hear the noise of the waterfall — there had been plenty of rain and when we arrived at the foss , the beck that eventually joins the Ure to travel down Wensleydale was hammering over the lip of the force . |
| 22 | Much of this has been done by alcohol advertisers , such as Bacardi and Gordons Gin , but there have been plenty of others . |
| 23 | There had been plenty of leg-pulling already about his return to the camp the previous evening slightly the worse for wear from the ternum . |
| 24 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 25 | " They 've had all night , and there 's been plenty of time to get anything really incriminating out of the way . |
| 26 | There 've always been plenty of kindly brother officers to bring it to my attention . |
| 27 | As I said , there 'd been plenty of women in Uncle Paul 's life . |
| 28 | There 've been plenty of people like that , all down history , and plenty of them psychologists , who 've had lunatic and silly ideas that everyone 's forgotten about . |
| 29 | There have been plenty of City frauds and scandals involving Conservative supporters . |
| 30 | There have been plenty of them . |