Example sentences of "[was/were] nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were impostors and children were nothing but the promise of broken bones . |
| 2 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 4 | Were nothing to the upset |
| 5 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 6 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 7 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 8 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 9 | Were nothing like the real thing |
| 10 | But no one barred the way , no one waved , there was nothing across the road . |
| 11 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 12 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
| 13 | Then there was nothing but the river running wide and strong and dark and it was as if the highway had never existed . |
| 14 | At one point he knelt down and parted the heather with his hands , so sure was he that he had found it , but there was nothing but the scree and the tiny plants which grew amongst it . |
| 15 | There was nothing but the faint image of the stained glass in the front door where the moonlight streamed through , the ticking of the clock , the bundle of coats hanging from the hallstand . |
| 16 | And then there was nothing but the ruin of the forests and a cloud of dust on the horizon , which drifted away on the breeze . |
| 17 | For a while there was nothing but the click of ammunition , the scrape of boots , and the stink of Woolley 's rancour . |
| 18 | Beyond the wall there was nothing but the wildwood , a tangle of small oaks and patchy flowers , not yet destroyed by winter . |
| 19 | If that perimeter was broken , there was still the Gemioncourt farm by the ford which could be an anchor to a defensive line , but once Gemioncourt was captured there was nothing between the French and the crossroads . |
| 20 | There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations . |
| 21 | It was nothing of the sort . |
| 22 | She was aware there was nothing of the servant in her voice . |
| 23 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 24 | Unfortunately ( or perhaps fortunately ) he was nothing of the kind . |
| 25 | For instance , a book on the influence of religious tradition on the education of women in Britain and India might include substantial chapters or whole sections on Hinduism , Buddhism and Christianity ; if the indexer therefore indexed HINDUISM , BUDDHISM , CHRISTIANITY , RELIGION , EDUCATION , WOMEN , INDIA , BRITAIN , the later combination of individual facets such as HINDUISM and BRITAIN might suggest , falsely , that the book was about Hinduism in Britain when in fact it was nothing of the kind . |
| 26 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 27 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 28 | Oh no there was nothing of the kind no . |
| 29 | There was nothing of the old Cath Cathy usually enjoying more of a good laugh , she was always happy and cheerful , then she fell victim to a rare diso disorder |
| 30 | THE FLOW of cards and bouquets was nothing to the stream of very important people arriving at No 10 Downing Street yesterday . |