Example sentences of "be [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That at least was something to congratulate himself on , but there had been nothing else in the encounter to afford the Colonel any consolation . |
| 2 | There had been nothing out of the ordinary about that morning , they said , nothing . |
| 3 | But they are nothing out of the ordinary . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Luke , a radio station is only a radio station , and there are plenty all around the world , but there 's only one Luke Scott . ’ |
| 5 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 6 | There seems to be nobody else on the plane . |
| 7 | Erm , as I said it was n't me that phoned originally , my guess is that there may be somebody else at the school who is trying to contact you , but while you 're on the line , let's just make a little let's just make a little date . |
| 8 | Richard Wheeler who was leading qualifier in the Glenmuir Club professionals Pre-qualifier also had an eagle three at the ninth to be one under at the turn . |
| 9 | ‘ I can be anything up to a bear if you like . |
| 10 | But that 's probably not gon na happen along there there wo n't be anything else on the windowsill . |
| 11 | There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned . |
| 12 | There 's nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 13 | This is my 23-month-old granddaughter giving her fond father a real smacker to wish him a happy birthday — they say there 's nothing quite like a baby 's love ! |
| 14 | Soft and sophisticated , there 's nothing quite like the look of crisp , cool white . |
| 15 | x on it , ‘ there is nothing intrinsically in the hardware that requires Solaris 2.1 . ’ |
| 16 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |
| 17 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 18 | Oh , but there is nothing quite like a hansom cab — as it shakes from side to side , throwing us against each other , deliciously … |
| 19 | But the world of 1806 was to Captain Marryat what the world of 1935 is to us , at this moment , a middling sort of place , where there is nothing out of the way in a sailor with a pigtail or in a bumboat woman volleying hoarse English . |
| 20 | This kind of thing is nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 21 | Joe Jordan , a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists , says women should not allow doctors to carry out such examinations unless there is someone else in the room or close by — normally a nurse , relative or friend . |
| 22 | And there 's nobody else in the picture so we 're totally concentrating on him . |
| 23 | I think there 's somebody else at the door now . |
| 24 | There 's plenty wrong with the world right now , but it 's all we 've got , and the only way forward is to face up to it . |
| 25 | ‘ Is somebody else in the house ? ’ |
| 26 | Is everything up out the cellar ? |
| 27 | ‘ It is something on at the Tower of London . ’ |
| 28 | Second , there is something right about an argument which holds , as does the argument from error , that for the very same sort of reason that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat , you do n't know , e.g. , that The Times will be published tomorrow , nor whether you are sitting reading . |
| 29 | I could find no memorial at all for 1939–45 , though there is one elsewhere in the town . |
| 30 | Sprays produced by taps and showers also produce fine aerosols and here the person at risk is one close to the source of aerosol production . |