Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [indef pn] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 2 | Which was nothing more than a sideways stab at NME hipness coupled with a nod towards the absurd fitness fad . |
| 3 | Mitchell then forwarded to Cameron in Dar es Salaam a quite unrecognizable version of the Murrells scheme which was nothing more than a vastly elaborated edition of the existing system of administration through the laibon and laigwenak . |
| 4 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 5 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
| 6 | His hand was still firm on her shoulder and the contact changed from pleasure to a feeling she was nothing more than a possession . |
| 7 | Implexion was sure she was nothing more than a spoiled and pampered daughter of a rich house , as ill-prepared for privation as it was possible to be . |
| 8 | As far as he was concerned she was nothing more than a time-and-labour-saving device required for the voyage . |
| 9 | Why did she let herself feel so safe with him , when to him she was nothing more than a hot-tempered child with a woman 's body ? |
| 10 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |
| 11 | In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde . |
| 12 | There were some complete manuscripts but there were nothing more than a collection of royal warrants written personally by King James and sealed under his signet ring , granting tasks or favours to his ‘ beloved physician , Andrew Selkirk ’ . |
| 13 | In the middle of the afternoon , she rang her office : there was nothing more than a routine acknowledgment of the debriefing report she had sent after Maxim 's meeting with the Secret Service . |
| 14 | Lord Dilhorne and Lord Russell both thought that there was nothing more than a gift , whereas Lord Fraser , dissenting , considered that there had been a sale of both articles ( ie the petrol and the coins ) in one transaction . |
| 15 | It appeared as if there was something more than a cupboard there . |
| 16 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 17 | They were nothing more than a lousy bunch of down and outs , students ( same thing in my book ) , and back-packing evangelists with acne . |
| 18 | If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix … and then all of the 31 pits that had been threatened were to close , that would be completely unacceptable . ’ |
| 19 | Winston Churchill ( C , Davyhulme ) said : ‘ If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix I do not believe it would get through the House of Commons . |
| 20 | This gave her hope , for it was nothing less than a re-birth that Maggie was aiming for . |
| 21 | ‘ It was nothing more than a tap in , ’ he added . |
| 22 | There was also the possibility that Myeloski was wrong , that it was nothing more than a string of coincidences . |
| 23 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |
| 24 | ‘ It was nothing more than a mental aberration on my part . ’ |
| 25 | Until Silas came it was nothing more than a wilderness . ’ |
| 26 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 27 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |
| 28 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 29 | But as his eyes travelled across to Elinor 's crowd , with their frizzy haloes of hair , their flowered dresses and carefully arranged profiles , he realized that there was nothing he could think of to say that would persuade them he was anything other than a boring little man . |
| 30 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , France developed what was nothing less than a long-term naval strategy . |