Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe felt a sudden fear that he had raised a false alarm and the force he had seen had been nothing but a feint . |
| 2 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 3 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 4 | ‘ She 's been nothing but a nuisance all her life . ’ |
| 5 | What had happened hours ago , a lifetime ago , when he 'd kissed her , had been nothing but an aberration . |
| 6 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 7 | Is my hon. Friend aware that in my constituency the majority of people infinitely prefer the council tax to Labour 's alternative — the so-called fair rates , which are nothing but a return to the dreaded rating system that we had before , and which was especially hated in the south of England ? |
| 8 | From the point of view of certain owners , these diet-shifts are nothing but a nuisance , but if ever , for some dramatic reason , the cat found itself without its usual owner , they would stand it in good stead . |
| 9 | You know , you say how much am I worth an hour , yes . |
| 10 | Yet here am I on a road that instead of tarmac looks like a patio laid in bricks — every one hand-placed in herringbone pattern . |
| 11 | Am I before a court ? , |
| 12 | So not only am I in a job I know , I 'm also in a position to pass vital information back to the Israelis . |
| 13 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 14 | You 're nothing but a menace in here . ’ |
| 15 | You 're nothing but a conniving , scheming , little bitch ! ’ |
| 16 | Reading some sections of the media recently , children of lone parents are talked about as as if they 're nothing but a drain on state resources . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're a fool , I thought differently of you , but you 're nothing but a fool , a lovesick fool , like every other idiot girl I 've known . |
| 18 | You 're nothing but a cheater ! ’ |
| 19 | You 're nothing but a cold , calculating … ’ |
| 20 | Looking at the man , he says , ‘ You 're nothing but a pile of chits . ’ |
| 21 | You 're nothing but a scheming , conniving , low-down … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're nothing but a brute and a bully ! |
| 23 | And she said you 're nothing but a load of old busybodies and how dare you and oh the language . |
| 24 | We 're nothing but a bunch of museum pieces : machines can do everything that we can do , only faster and cheaper . |
| 25 | Yeah , but they 're nothing but a bunch of wankers speak |
| 26 | You 're nothing but an exam machine to them . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They 're not doing their job but they 're something of a distraction . ’ |
| 28 | Are you as a shareholder in a position to finance the purchase ? |
| 29 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 30 | ‘ Are you on a booze-up or what ? he asked belligerently. ‘ that 's what I get for coming to see you and your mother in bed with the flu , ’ his father protested indignantly . |