Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that someone is being kept out of the know , and it 's often been me in the past , and it 's me now . |
| 2 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 3 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 4 | Sharpe felt a sudden fear that he had raised a false alarm and the force he had seen had been nothing but a feint . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's been nothing but a nuisance all her life . ’ |
| 6 | had been nothing but a black window space . |
| 7 | What had happened hours ago , a lifetime ago , when he 'd kissed her , had been nothing but an aberration . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 10 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 11 | There 's been nothing in the media about the hair either , but that piece of unpleasantness seems to be generally known . |
| 12 | Lugh was certain that there had been nothing in the least bit noticeable about their journey . |
| 13 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 14 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 15 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 16 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 17 | All these ‘ signs ’ of ‘ inadequacy ’ are nothing of the kind but are indicators of poverty and powerlessness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But these are nothing to the disadvantages I see to just living with a man . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | These rooms are nothing but a dangerous hazard for the adventurers , and best avoided , unless you are using an adventure theme which forces them to enter these terrains to regain some lost object or person ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) . |
| 22 | Her heroine , Jocelyne ( no English person can pronounce her name ) battles with a Rayburn and nature-hating farmers , ‘ trees are nothing but a damn nuisance ! ’ |
| 23 | You are nothing but a … . ’ |
| 24 | Is my hon. Friend aware that in my constituency the majority of people infinitely prefer the council tax to Labour 's alternative — the so-called fair rates , which are nothing but a return to the dreaded rating system that we had before , and which was especially hated in the south of England ? |
| 25 | In other words , they are nothing like a representative sample of British society . |
| 26 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 27 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 28 | are nothing like the ones that he using ! |
| 29 | You know , you say how much am I worth an hour , yes . |
| 30 | Nor am I under the illusion that I alone am free of illusion . |