Example sentences of "is [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There is nothing about a general right to follow the property over which the trust exists ; the question is purely quantitative .
2 He commented : ‘ While one can observe that a breast is nothing but a modified sweat gland and , indeed , a secondary sexual characteristic , can it truly be heard that breasts are anything but intimately associated with sex or things sexual . ’
3 The second is nothing but a single-engined airliner with a 737 's rate-of-climb and rate-of-descent capabilities , able to mix with Dash 8s or ATRs along the airways .
4 Sir John Junor attacks , ‘ She is nothing but a cheap tart . ’
5 Some time later I got an amp as well It was as big a piece of junk as the bass — a Fenton Weill Mk II with a Goodman speaker , which is nothing but a cheap copy of the Ampeg Portaflex B15N .
6 This is no lightplane : from nose to rudder the 700 is nothing but a small Airbus .
7 What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) .
8 But after talking to her best friend , I realise that my daughter is nothing but a little slut . ’
9 ‘ Bubbles is nothing but a little tart .
10 ‘ Daffy ’ is nothing but a trusted failure
11 It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood .
12 This is exacerbated by the fact that there are some extremists who would argue that psychology is nothing but a crude way of approaching brain function that has been superseded by advances in physiological technique .
13 Nothing is more annoying than when a dole queue fan shells out six pounds for a ticket to a show which is nothing but a huge yawn for the artist involved .
14 ‘ Please do not worry , madam , it is nothing except a little accident , ’ said Marcelle .
15 Red blood is nothing before a blue stocking ! ’
16 And yet Golding is nothing like a political novelist in terms of British domestic politics , and his views about political parties , whatever they are , are not publicly a part of his fiction .
17 There is nothing like a good crisis to lead to a questioning of organizational values , directions and practices ( Starbuck , 1982 ; Blowers , 1983 ) .
18 There is nothing like a monumental disaster to stimulate the critics .
19 Even fashion — everyone 's idea of a disabled person is someone in a grey NHS wheelchair , with a pink frock and big cumbersome boots .
20 There is nobody in a stronger position than someone who is doing a good job of work for nothing , especially when his employer is stingy and congenitally idle .
21 Again , this can only be an agreement to sell and the contract will fail if the contingency fails to occur within the stipulated time , or if there is none within a reasonable time ( compare the sale of a chance or spes ) .
22 It gives fine views of the worried faces to your left and is itself in a splendid position .
23 Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation .
24 Are they both unskilled workers or is she in a higher class than her husband ?
25 ‘ In those early days , ’ says Gatfield , ‘ the A&R person is everything to a new act — they hold the purse strings and there is a very special relationship because it was the A&R person who offered them the way into a record company , which is very , very special . ’
26 The draw is everything in a 200 metres indoor race .
27 The Bidouze marks very roughly the boundary between Basse-Navarre to the west and the third Basque province of the Soule to the east , and because Saint-Palais is , additionally , very close to where the Basque country ends and the region known as Béarn begins , it is something of a transitional town , neither one thing nor the other .
28 For Mr Husak , this is something of a personal tragedy .
29 Discussion of the phrase at the Hague is something of a hardy perennial , because of the evident fascination of different methods of categorising legal rules , and the issue arises in the context of the taking of evidence abroad as well as in the present context .
30 However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days .
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