Example sentences of "but it be [adv] nothing " in BNC.

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1 Ordinary pumice , by contrast , shows a wide range in density , depending upon the degree of vesiculation that has taken place in the magma , but it is still nothing more than a solidified rock froth .
2 In the end he presents it as a solution to the problem which he had been set but it is really nothing of the sort .
3 And some spake up saying , Well , all right , but it is really nothing but a Co incidence ; iii .
4 She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept .
5 But it was perhaps nothing compared with the hostility he faced over his plans to reform the legal profession .
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