Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 2 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 3 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 4 | There 's been nothing in the media about the hair either , but that piece of unpleasantness seems to be generally known . |
| 5 | Lugh was certain that there had been nothing in the least bit noticeable about their journey . |
| 6 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 7 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 8 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 9 | All these ‘ signs ’ of ‘ inadequacy ’ are nothing of the kind but are indicators of poverty and powerlessness . |
| 10 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 11 | But these are nothing to the disadvantages I see to just living with a man . |
| 12 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 13 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 14 | are nothing like the ones that he using ! |
| 15 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 16 | When she had thrown the gravel , there had been someone in the pill-box directly ahead of her . |
| 17 | Some people swore it must have been someone in the Martin family . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ the assassin may have been someone in the Tower who knew where Sir Ralph lay , and seized the opportunity of the moat freezing over to gain access to the footholds on the North Bastion . |
| 19 | It must have been someone from the village , Rose said : who else would be walking in the woods at that hour ? |
| 20 | There are plenty on the sample but that is to show how they can be built up . |
| 21 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 22 | It must have been somebody from the village . |
| 23 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 24 | If you 're anything like the GH staff , you 'll be wanting to know more about Stella … watch this space . |
| 25 | Now that particular force if they 're anything like the other forces that I deal with , ai n't under the stresses and strains that we are . |
| 26 | Because the material can be shot in any order , there are none of the limitations of edit-in-camera recording . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , despite the specifications and price of the tool , there are none of the nozzle accessories that would exploit the full potential of the machine ; these must be purchased separately . |
| 28 | Generally , there are none of the inane pizzaman delivery scenarios you find in commercial porn — something consumers cherish about the amateurs . |
| 29 | Because acrylics dry so quickly , overpainting is a simple process and there are none of the danger associated with oil paints in this respect . |
| 30 | Here are none of the divagations and contradictions with which Patrick O'Brian follows the course of Aubrey 's life with Sophia or Maturin 's long , difficult passion for Diana Villiers . |