Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 2 | There had been nothing casual about that kiss . |
| 3 | He had been nothing other than polite since that confrontation they had had on the deck , maintaining the charade of their relationship with apparent ease , yet Fran had sensed the tension behind the smiling façade . |
| 4 | There had been nothing dramatic , no great debate , just a lot of jokes and heavy irony to start with , then a gradual , gentle separation . |
| 5 | Indeed , some of the samples I 've been sent have been nothing short of rubbish . |
| 6 | Levi 's support base was within the large Sephardi community ( members or descendants of the western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and latterly in north Africa , as opposed to the Askhenazi — the northern European Yiddish-speaking Jews ) , and many of his supporters claimed that the Shamir-Arens-Sharon collaboration had been nothing short of ethnic discrimination by the " Ashkenazi bosses " . |
| 7 | No player has a higher profile at the moment than Kilkenny 's lethal forward whose scoring feats this year have been nothing short of phenomenal . |
| 8 | There had been nothing solitary about Ludovico 's life . |
| 9 | There would have been nothing improper in his paying court to Heather , had she not been his patient . |
| 10 | ‘ There has certainly been nothing wrong with its stay at the East Lancs Railway . |
| 11 | There 's been nothing wrong with me all day is there Bet ? |
| 12 | THERE has been nothing amicable about this arrangement . |
| 13 | THERE has been nothing amicable about this arrangement . |
| 14 | There has been nothing amicable about this arrangement . |
| 15 | Externally conformist and controlled , her journal functions as the confidant she never had : ‘ My head feels empty and I am nothing particular . |
| 16 | Extremes in the weather are nothing new for the British garden and one fairly safe prediction for 1990 is that the weather will be as unpredictable as ever . |
| 17 | Whale strandings are nothing new around the British isles , and careful records have been kept since 1913 . |
| 18 | Moralist and anti-porn campaigns are nothing new . |
| 19 | ‘ Recessions are nothing new to us , ’ says Mr Nearn . |
| 20 | Maternal instincts are nothing new to Cher . |
| 21 | Discount supermarkets like this are nothing new . |
| 22 | Ethernet switches are nothing new : both Kalpana Inc and 3Com Corp have implementations . |
| 23 | Attempts to control public expenditure are nothing new ; they began long before Gladstone . |
| 24 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 25 | But Copernican thinking has already led astray many astronomers who should have known better , and we 'd best be careful when they use the same logic to try to convince us that we and our planet are nothing special . |
| 26 | Achieve that — and it is achievable , though my own car , currently without an engine , is not yet there — and the Stag 's attractions are nothing short of seductive . |
| 27 | A highly polished effort , the graphics are nothing short of amazing . |
| 28 | For each day there is a diet sheet , more interesting key facts , and a weight and symptom chart for your to complete as you did for Stage I. It is vital that you keep this chart up to date : you will undoubtedly need to refer back at some point during the next few weeks , so the records are nothing short of vital ! |
| 29 | are them separate ? |
| 30 | What am I good at ? |