Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were impostors and children were nothing but the promise of broken bones . |
| 2 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 4 | Were nothing to the upset |
| 5 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 6 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 7 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 8 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 9 | Were nothing like the real thing |
| 10 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 11 | There were plenty in the Store . |
| 12 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |
| 13 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 14 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 15 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 16 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 17 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 18 | There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March . |
| 19 | This was another of those naked spaces , so exposed it was useless — putting a chair out there to sit in the sun seemed unthinkable , there were none of the nooks and crannies or spaces that invited use . |
| 20 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
| 21 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 22 | Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today . |
| 23 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 24 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 25 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 26 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 27 | How satisfied were you with the refreshments ? |
| 28 | ‘ Were you on the Crusade ? ’ |
| 29 | Why were you on the Moor alone ? |
| 30 | ‘ Were you on the ice ? ’ |