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some extremists who would argue that psychology is nothing but a crude way of approaching brain function that has been superseded by advances in physiological technique .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 . |