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 . |