Example sentences of "be [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 2 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 3 | Am I on the right line there ? |
| 4 | ‘ Why am I on the wrong side of this stone ? ’ she whispered . |
| 5 | ‘ Am I in the same room ? ’ she asked . |
| 6 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 7 | Now that particular force if they 're anything like the other forces that I deal with , ai n't under the stresses and strains that we are . |
| 8 | I do believe they wore top hats , but there are none of the usual wedding photographs to confirm that . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Generally , there are none of the inane pizzaman delivery scenarios you find in commercial porn — something consumers cherish about the amateurs . |
| 11 | One friend has explained how , in a conversation in which she was lamenting the cost of electricity , Eliot asked her in a confidential manner , " Are you on the domestic tariff ? " |
| 12 | Are you in the warm woods in the south ? |
| 13 | How certain are you in the first place that it 's a scentmaker ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 15 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 16 | There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers . |
| 17 | There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac . |
| 18 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
| 19 | There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money . |
| 20 | 16th ( last in series ) , Life in the Balance : How removed are we from the natural world ? |
| 21 | Are we in the right area ? |
| 22 | Are we in the wrong jobs ? |
| 23 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 24 | And all souls are one in the great ocean of the Supreme Consciousness , the Lord . |
| 25 | There seems to be nothing in the early stages of the series which could support one continuation against the other . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only do this where you think there may actually be someone of the right calibre available . |
| 28 | This has subsequently been changed , but suggests the view the SFA might take ; it would be logical for it to do so , since a market counterparty of this type is supposed to be someone on the same level as the firm . |
| 29 | Most likely there will be someone in the close family or a reliable friend . |
| 30 | There could be someone in the outside world who is prepared to take over and put money into the club . |