Example sentences of "[pron] be [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 2 | Barely five feet four and dressed in sensible shoes , blue silky dress and yellow sash , she was nothing like the glittering bimbos in stilettos and the quietly elegant wives of the money men sitting all around us . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 4 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 5 | Even at the most constantly watched setts , the badgers can sometimes become nervous if they catch the scent of a stranger , particularly if there are none of the usual human visitors present either . |
| 6 | I do believe they wore top hats , but there are none of the usual wedding photographs to confirm that . |
| 7 | ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’ |
| 8 | Generally , there are none of the inane pizzaman delivery scenarios you find in commercial porn — something consumers cherish about the amateurs . |
| 9 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
| 10 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 11 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 12 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 13 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 14 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 15 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 16 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 17 | ‘ You sure there 's nothing between the two of you ? ’ |
| 18 | There 's nothing between the two teams … |
| 19 | And you come over this hill and suddenly there 's nothing on the other side except a huge hole in the ground , and the road goes along almost a cliff edge the side of this erm hole which is this worked out iron ore quarry . |
| 20 | So what is so there 's nothing to the other side , just apart from this big room ? |
| 21 | A glowing profile by a local journalist of the time said : ‘ There 's nothing of the ruthless businessman in him . |
| 22 | Then there 's nothing but the implacable , soul-less beat , and a subdued babble of shudders and metallic gasps . |
| 23 | Second team or not , however , there 's nothing like the first century . |
| 24 | Ach , there 's nothing like the primitive life , is there ? ’ |
| 25 | There 's nothing like the soft texture and colour of old fabrics : learn to use and take care of them . ’ |
| 26 | You know , if there 's nothing like the last week then Did you have your tea Danny ? |
| 27 | Never mind the sequels , there 's nothing like the original and the proudest treasure in the archives of the Oxford University Press remains this early edition of Samuel Johnson 's very first English dictionary . |
| 28 | Because now I know there 's nothing behind the fancy shirt that interests me in the slightest . ’ |
| 29 | As far as the build quality is concerned , you 'd expect it to be up there with the best of the Japanese instruments , and you 'll be pleased to know that Jackson have not compromised their reputation here at all ; there 's nothing in the slightest ‘ second rate ’ about the Infinity . |
| 30 | Well , right , erm so a three bars of chocolate , there 's one in the hundred grams , will cost you twenty eight pence . |