Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 2 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 3 | Since he finally won test honours against France in the domestic series in 1991 McKenzie has established himself as arguably the world 's best tighthead prop . |
| 4 | In the introduction to his first published work , Lodwick describes himself as not a scholar but a ‘ mechanick ’ , but his surviving library catalogue demonstrates that , even if self-educated , he was extremely well read . |
| 5 | The two modes fight it out in Schlesinger 's Billy Liar , where the hero escapes from the constraints of life in an undertaking business by fantasizing himself as variously a soldier , Winston Churchill , a gunman mowing down his family or an aristocrat living with obliging parents whose behaviour is strikingly different from that of the real screeching proletarians . |
| 6 | Your noble savage of the slums is nothing if not a realist , eh , Shelley ? ’ |
| 7 | Gooch who has Fletcher 's total support is nothing if not a fighter , however , and insisted last night : ‘ I 've no second thoughts about staying on as captain . ’ |
| 8 | So when the searcher eventually believes and becomes a Christian ( I am ignoring for the moment the other levels of understanding which are involved ) , he is nothing if not a man with a memory and a man of special gratitude : Whatever he becomes , wherever he goes , whatever he does , he should never be unaware of what once was , what might have been and what could well be again . |
| 9 | Macclesfield is nothing if not a silk town . |
| 10 | On location in Australia , he was nothing if not the life and soul of the party . |
| 11 | She is nothing if not an enthusiast and exhibits that special quality so necessary for a regular ski touring in Scotland ; a voracious appetite for sniffing out snow in sufficient quantity to make a continuous tour . |
| 12 | Alyssia took a deep breath to steady her nerves , and then said unsteadily , ‘ Nicole is more to you than just a friend , is n't she ? |
| 13 | At once CAMRA declared itself as both a consumer and a conservationist watchdog , speaking up for citizens as well as consumers against the abuses inflicted on one of our best national traditions . |
| 14 | It saw itself as primarily a teaching institution and Lindop underlined that ‘ we are at pains to ensure that we recruit staff who share our view of the primacy of teaching ’ , and the Polytechnic was requiring new and inexperienced staff to attend an in-service training programme of about 250 hours in their first year . |
| 15 | Its view of itself as strictly an object database engine provider has changed to encompass solutions , migration and gateways . |
| 16 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 17 | Rourke was more to her than just an employer . |
| 18 | Is there a man out there with more to him than just the change in his pockets ? |
| 19 | Andy Macdonald has more going for him than merely the fact that he stands 6ft 8in . |
| 20 | He had not realized the impact on him until nearly a year later he found himself shaking and crying and saying to himself , ‘ I was nearly killed there ’ . |
| 21 | I know that girl , know her as only a mother can , and I know she 's not well . |
| 22 | He gave him as sharp a look as he dared . |
| 23 | There was more to it than just a change of style . |
| 24 | You see , I think there was much more to it than just the fact that they were childless . ’ |
| 25 | The full implications of this are best indicated if we observe that far more is involved in it than merely the uniqueness of the revelation in Jesus , solely the issue whether there is genuine access to knowledge of God in any other place . |
| 26 | But we 're likely to make more money at it than perhaps the sweat shops do . |
| 27 | If food to be eaten raw or without further cooking has thawed , it 's acceptable to refreeze it if just the surface has softened but you can still feel some ice . |
| 28 | What was he if not the creature who circled that dark silhouette , sometimes letting a wing-tip brush the brickwork , sometimes soaring on an up-draught , better to look down , better to choose , better to fall on the prey ? |
| 29 | How could you refute it when just the memory of his scathing comments made your eyes fill with tears ? |
| 30 | Up until that moment I had seen myself as simply a person ; colour of skin had n't registered with me . |