Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] a [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 This ‘ outsider ’ stance is , of course , nothing new , and if it bore the bulk of the band 's appeal , would be nothing more than a gimmick in itself .
2 A call of nature interrupted my pleasure and I went out to the necessary house behind the tavern , nothing more than a hole in the ground enclosed by a shabby wooden palisade and a door which bolted from the inside .
3 Boy George , though , was nothing less than a man in drag , a gender-bender who flounced his sexuality in the faces of outrages tabloids and ecstatic teenage girls .
4 One , architect Robin Pearce-Boby , 62 , said : ‘ I find it dreadful that a man in his position could do something so awful .
5 If you have ever tried growing anything taller than a lettuce in a grow-bag , you will have encountered the problem of floppy stakes .
6 Liebknecht 's attempt to hold an anti-war rally in the Potsdamer Platz on May 1st , 1916 , was not yet anything more than a flash in the pan .
7 If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ .
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