Example sentences of "[be] nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 2 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 3 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 4 | There 's been nothing in the media about the hair either , but that piece of unpleasantness seems to be generally known . |
| 5 | Lugh was certain that there had been nothing in the least bit noticeable about their journey . |
| 6 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 7 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 8 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 9 | All these ‘ signs ’ of ‘ inadequacy ’ are nothing of the kind but are indicators of poverty and powerlessness . |
| 10 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 11 | But these are nothing to the disadvantages I see to just living with a man . |
| 12 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 13 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 14 | are nothing like the ones that he using ! |
| 15 | It did n't operate from the bank , and it 's the intention of the council to turn it back into a water-based boat hiring business so there will be nothing along the bank at all . |
| 16 | The back was taken off so there would be nothing between the sounding-board and the horn , and the pianist was instructed to play ‘ double forte ’ throughout ( 10 ) . |
| 17 | In the circumstances , a 9–0 defeat shows that ordinarily there would be nothing between the teams . |
| 18 | This apparently decisive comparison turns out , unfortunately , to be nothing of the sort . |
| 19 | It was going to be nothing of the sort . |
| 20 | In a mature oil province like the North Sea , most of the large fields have certainly been discovered and the fields of the future will be nothing like the size of the giant fields of Brent , Ninian and Forties . |
| 21 | But there would be i i in terms of a communist strategy , in terms of an ideology there would be nothing within the countryside which would be promoting that movement towards socialism , that , that change through class conflict would there ? |
| 22 | If the courts were to limit the offences to circumstances in which another computer was also involved , there would be nothing in the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to cover industrial espionage or obtaining other confidential security information stored in a company 's computer . |
| 23 | Such conduct would clearly be a form of ‘ delivery ’ rather than the formal service effected by the authorities of the state of destination , but there seems to be nothing in the various Hague Conventions to suggest that the postal channel was any less valid than any other permitted mode . |
| 24 | There seems to be nothing in the early stages of the series which could support one continuation against the other . |
| 25 | He pointed out that there would be nothing in the Act to meet what is itself a mischief frequently encountered today , namely , industrial espionage or obtaining information as to security details or other confidential information which may be stored on a company 's computer . |
| 26 | There would be nothing in the Rory Collins thing , she knew that , it was just a wild flirtation . |
| 27 | This chapter examines the progress in a reference after the expert has been appointed , and explains : ( 1 ) that there is no set procedure outside the contract ( 11.2 ) ; ( 2 ) that there may be nothing in the contract about the procedure ( 11.3 ) ; ( 3 ) terms of reference ( 11.4 ) ; ( 4 ) procedural directions ( 11.5 ) ; ( 5 ) conduct of the investigation ( 11.6 ) ; ( 6 ) the form of the decision ( 11.7 ) ; ( 7 ) that there are no published procedures for specific applications except the RICS guidance notes ( 11.8 ) . |
| 28 | Apart from there being nothing on the walls , there 's very little of the personal here considering that she 's lived here six months . |
| 29 | Albert has two hotels and , there being nothing in the guidebook to distinguish them , I settled on the Grand Hôtel de la Paix , sight unseen . |
| 30 | People were impostors and children were nothing but the promise of broken bones . |