Example sentences of "[coord] it be nothing [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't like it , and it 's nothing at all to do with being frigid .
2 I 've been infatuated before and it 's nothing to the pain of this .
3 For all those who scoffed at the idea of my mastering anything complex like Excel , I 'm pleased to say that I 've bought my first copy , and it 's nothing like as hard as I thought .
4 I like to ‘ shoot ’ every Whaddon game and it is nothing for Jock to spend a whole weekend analysing , in minute detail , every little aspect of his instruction manual in the hope he can learn to operate the video machine .
5 Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill .
6 All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records .
7 Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places .
8 It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London .
9 But it is nothing like English suburbia .
10 The cover price is about £5 less , quite often we sell many , many more — but it 's nothing for anybody to get too hysterical about , ’ she adds .
11 But it 's nothing to a firm like McDonald 's . ’
12 ‘ There 's desert to cross , but it 's nothing like the G'bai . ’
13 I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri .
14 That had been a great adventure , but it was nothing to his travels .
15 This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort .
16 Yeah , but it was nothing like that .
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