Example sentences of "be [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | had been nothing but a black window space . |
| 2 | These rooms are nothing but a dangerous hazard for the adventurers , and best avoided , unless you are using an adventure theme which forces them to enter these terrains to regain some lost object or person ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) . |
| 3 | Her heroine , Jocelyne ( no English person can pronounce her name ) battles with a Rayburn and nature-hating farmers , ‘ trees are nothing but a damn nuisance ! ’ |
| 4 | In other words , they are nothing like a representative sample of British society . |
| 5 | Am I in a good position ? |
| 6 | If you are what you claim to be , you 're nothing but a dusty relic from some medieval ghetto … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 're nothing but a hired hand , Breakspear , so shut the fuck up . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Heaven preserve me from all women ; they 're nothing but a damned nuisance when they try to ensure my number-one driver is handicapped before the race has even started ! ’ |
| 9 | I got the impression you 're something of a lone wolf . |
| 10 | Are you on a perpetual diet like me ? ’ |
| 11 | Are you in a blue funk about running out of things to say ? |
| 12 | Are you in a different job sir ? |
| 13 | ‘ Are you from a military family ? ’ the Doctor asked , more to break the embarrassing silence than out of genuine interest . |
| 14 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 15 | You 've always been one for a quiet life , have n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never been one for a sweet wine Never . ’ |
| 17 | He was a small man , bald and beady-eyed and turkey-necked , and only in retrospect could she see that he 'd probably been something of a mental case as well . |
| 18 | His father had been something of a rough diamond , barely literate and excelling in " drinking , whoring , gaming , fishing and fighting " . |
| 19 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 20 | His letters to his daughter Amanda , accompanied by her explanatory editorial notes , reveal him to have been something of a tender tyrant in his dealings with his three children , and much happier in the country watching birds than in London coping with editors and producers . |
| 21 | A manufacturer of rich men 's toys , Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd had itself always been something of a rich man 's toy , owners like the mythical David Brown ( he of the DB4 and 5 ) underwriting the firm 's losses for sheer love of the marque . |
| 22 | Broadly , there was stability in the marriage rates from the 1870s to the 1940s , although there appears to have been something of a minor dip in those getting married in the late 1920s and 1930s . |
| 23 | At an outstanding elevation of 1000 feet , the Fat Lamb has had its fair share of battles with the elements , and its proprietors , Paul and Helen Bonsall , admit that the garden 's survival has been something of a minor miracle . |
| 24 | Readers have suggested that it might have been more profitable to give more space to fewer sorts of vegetable , but that would have been something of a soft option . |
| 25 | Who are we in a free democracy to condemn this ? |
| 26 | ‘ Are we in a fit state to receive a visitor ? ’ , |
| 27 | I 'm afraid offspring are something of a closed book to me . ’ |
| 28 | Succulent spit-roasted lamb and chicken are also among the most popular regional meals , and inland , white truffles — ‘ al tartufo ’ — are something of a great delicacy when they come into season . |
| 29 | Murder mysteries are something of a British tradition — you only have to look at the popularity of thriller novels and TV ‘ whodunits ? ’ , for example . |
| 30 | I 'm nothing but a small-time gangster 's moll . ’ |