Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can then consider the implications of this analysis for one of the general views identified in the introduction — that there has been nothing but conflict between science and religion . |
| 2 | In these three months there has been nothing but support for this scheme , some of it qualified , but nevertheless support , that it should go ahead . |
| 3 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 4 | It 's been nothing but Dennis , Dennis , Dennis ( or days now . |
| 5 | They 've been nothing but trouble since they arrived here . |
| 6 | He had been nothing but trouble for the Major . |
| 7 | I 'm beginning to think that car park has been nothing but trouble since it was built . ’ |
| 8 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |
| 9 | Then added more calmly : ‘ There 's been nothing on television or in the papers about any cut on the victims ’ foreheads . |
| 10 | But if he likes ( or does n't like ) you , status and money are nothing to Jamie . |
| 11 | We are all but a part of a whole which has its own , its distinct , its other meaning : we are not ourselves , we are crossroads , meeting places , points on a curve , we can not exist independently for we are nothing but signs , conjunctions , aggregations . |
| 12 | At the conference of the Non-Aligned held in Managua in January 1983 the Cuban Foreign Minister , Malmierca , argued that the Falklands War ‘ proved to Latin Americans that their instruments and means of collective defence with the United States , which were supposedly for protection against extrahemispheric powers , are nothing but mechanisms to be used when Washington 's interests are threatened by pro-independence actions in any of our states ’ . |
| 13 | But their record on the rights of ordinary people proves to me they are nothing but fascists . ’ |
| 14 | They are nothing but animals . |
| 15 | Whereas for the men garments have a determined , precise meaning , that is to say , a truth value , for the women clothes are nothing but signifiers open to a variety of meanings ; they are items whose function and referential meaning can easily be changed … . |
| 16 | ‘ Take it from me , Wilson , ’ said the headmaster , ‘ you are nothing like Napoleon . |
| 17 | Maybe such considerations will also mellow our attitude towards the imprisonment of nearly 9,000 men and 500 women ( representing nearly 25 and 45 per cent respectively of all those sentenced to immediate imprisonment ) for theft , handling stolen goods , fraud , and forgery , when the amounts of value involved are nothing in comparison with the millions stolen by offending corporations on whom our criminal justice system has given up . |
| 18 | If on the other hand you are someone at home in the complex plane then you may be able to recognise that the argument of a complex number will provide the sort of phase relationships that we hinted at when we mentioned circularly polarised light . |
| 19 | Then she found herself concluding that her earlier assumption had probably been correct and that there had indeed been someone in Australia , someone who had caused him to return to England in a hurry . |
| 20 | I imagined there might have been someone in Australia . ’ |
| 21 | it might 've been someone from cafe phoning up |
| 22 | There had been plenty of leg-pulling already about his return to the camp the previous evening slightly the worse for wear from the ternum . |
| 23 | Clearly Vincent was out of his mind , There had been plenty of signs : eccentric dress , abnormal behaviour , violent outbursts , irrational hostility . |
| 24 | Much of this has been done by alcohol advertisers , such as Bacardi and Gordons Gin , but there have been plenty of others . |
| 25 | One form about which there has been plenty of discussion is the Supplementary Statistical Document , known as the intrastat . |
| 26 | Of course , there have been plenty of Lions ' tours which brought no such dividend , 1951 being a case in point . |
| 27 | As I said , there 'd been plenty of women in Uncle Paul 's life . |
| 28 | There 's been plenty of speculation about what will be cut and what will be taxed , but it 's widely expected that there 'll be a big increase in the scope of VAT . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sure there have been plenty of men since , ’ he said , considerably piqued . |
| 30 | Let's face it , there have already been plenty of situation comedies in this situation before . |