Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [pron] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 2 | It has to be none other than Star Trek : The Screen Saver , which Berkeley is marketing under the slogan of ‘ Beam Up or Burn Or Burn Out . ’ |
| 3 | Now , the relation introducing such an adjective is assignment ; but there is no reason at all for taking the relation of the predicate qualifier to be anything other than qualification . |
| 4 | Everyone is assumed to be potentially capable of having sexual relations with a person of either sex , although there could be exceptions at either end of the spectrum , that is , there are some people who are constitutionally unable to be anything other than heterosexual , and some who are unable to be anything other than homosexual . |
| 5 | Four years later , the white carpets had turned grey ; the leather-look upholstery no longer pretended to be anything other than plastic ; and the electronic gadgetry had been sold . |