Example sentences of "[prep] be [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , although what they are testing other people for are their own conventions , their own work does not necessarily provide evidence of them in practice . |
| 2 | The last client I looked after was none other than David Niven . ’ |
| 3 | Lily might worm the reason out of her , and then Uncle Vernon would most likely telephone the theatre and accuse anyone who would listen of being nothing less than a slave-driver . |
| 4 | Among some people who have been involved in negotiations at Geneva on laws-of-war matters there is a genuine concern that any neat set of rules limiting the use of nuclear weapons in one way or another might have the unfortunate effects either of weakening deterrence ; or else , contrariwise , of seeming to legitimise such uses of nuclear weapons as are not covered in any agreement ; or else of being nothing more than a paper accord , which would be of little real value in a conflict . |
| 5 | They gave the impression of being nothing more than killing machines with their huge jaws , white jagged teeth and mad , red eyes . |
| 6 | The president has accused the defence minister , Husnu Dogan , a younger relation and an orphan brought up in the Ozal household , of being nothing short of a Brutus for opposing Semra 's decision . |
| 7 | Sarah Pope , 13 , has the distinction of being my youngest class member . |
| 8 | And , of course , of being your own boss . |
| 9 | For informal workers who genuinely do work for themselves the freedom of being your own boss does not often amount to much amid growing competition and soaring inflation . |
| 10 | She was caught without defences , her mind still playing with the idea of being his darling girl . |
| 11 | She already had grave doubts about the propriety of letting him buy her things , but accepted that it was part of the deal of being his supposed girlfriend . |
| 12 | He wanted to recapture the feeling of being his own man , addressing his own problems , working as a member of a wider team that he had found in the RAF . |
| 13 | I thought perhaps he 'd been to you and sort of were you interested and he he 'd come back . |
| 14 | Suddenly , all he was aware of was one single , frozen thought : |
| 15 | Another thing she disapproved of was his passionate interest in the other sex . |
| 16 | I soon established that the ‘ jabbering ’ they spoke of was none other than classical Greek , of which this portly figure had an exact command . |
| 17 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 18 | But , ’ with one last sigh and a brave smile , ‘ there 's nothing quite like being your own boss . |
| 19 | ‘ It was so chic , like being his rich uncle who died of the gout . |
| 20 | He got away with being what many others could only secretly aspire to be . |
| 21 | I will pay attention to these things , but one aspect of the specificity of the locales I am dealing with is their relative unimportance . |
| 22 | All he has to cope with is his own shame . |
| 23 | Piggy was seen as a responsible and dependable person and was left to look after the little-uns and to begin with was their parental figure . |
| 24 | The ono account she did not meddle with was their permanent one with Chambers . |
| 25 | The serious consequences of confusion between experts and arbitrators are underlined by the fact that the subject-matter of this case that the Court of Appeal had to deal with was nothing more than the rent of a car park . |
| 26 | Well ’ — she leant slightly forward — ‘ the fellow that Rosie went off with was your dear Andrew , the loving father . |
| 27 | All I had to bargain with was my own little bit of skill , which really , when you compare it with a carpenter 's skill , or a plumber 's skill , is intangible . |
| 28 | Until the recent arrival of Joanna Lumley , the only thing Lovejoy was likely to leap into was his open-topped Morris Minor , but for the last few episodes he 's been gleefully doing more bedding than bidding . |
| 29 | Far from being his only subject , eroticism — along with politics , aesthetics and theology — is a seamless part of life for Kundera . |
| 30 | It was , of course , far from being his only achievement . |