Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So when the searcher eventually believes and becomes a Christian ( I am ignoring for the moment the other levels of understanding which are involved ) , he is nothing if not a man with a memory and a man of special gratitude : Whatever he becomes , wherever he goes , whatever he does , he should never be unaware of what once was , what might have been and what could well be again .
2 Your noble savage of the slums is nothing if not a realist , eh , Shelley ? ’
3 Gooch who has Fletcher 's total support is nothing if not a fighter , however , and insisted last night : ‘ I 've no second thoughts about staying on as captain . ’
4 Macclesfield is nothing if not a silk town .
5 She is nothing if not an enthusiast and exhibits that special quality so necessary for a regular ski touring in Scotland ; a voracious appetite for sniffing out snow in sufficient quantity to make a continuous tour .
6 But you see what Freud , what Freud fastens on there and is something that only a psychoanalyst could do , is , is that there 's a discrepancy in the story .
7 I do sympathise with the problem that that the local residents have there but I I dare say closing off the road would n't be a very good idea but it is something that only the county council can do and the county council have said that they will not do this in advance of the southern relief road being built so I think that really is simply .
8 It 's something that not a lot of people take notice of , as I say , until they become a victim of it .
9 And that 's something that possibly the public do n't know about .
10 On location in Australia , he was nothing if not the life and soul of the party .
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