Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had .
2 COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing .
3 Am I on the right line there ?
4 ‘ Why am I on the wrong side of this stone ? ’ she whispered .
5 Am I in the same room ? ’ she asked .
6 My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Even at the most constantly watched setts , the badgers can sometimes become nervous if they catch the scent of a stranger , particularly if there are none of the usual human visitors present either .
10 I do believe they wore top hats , but there are none of the usual wedding photographs to confirm that .
11 ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’
12 Generally , there are none of the inane pizzaman delivery scenarios you find in commercial porn — something consumers cherish about the amateurs .
13 One friend has explained how , in a conversation in which she was lamenting the cost of electricity , Eliot asked her in a confidential manner , " Are you on the domestic tariff ? "
14 Are you in the warm woods in the south ?
15 How certain are you in the first place that it 's a scentmaker ? ’
16 ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one .
17 If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur .
18 There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers .
19 There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac .
20 This change has not necessarily been one for the better .
21 Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes .
22 There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money .
23 16th ( last in series ) , Life in the Balance : How removed are we from the natural world ?
24 Are we in the right area ?
25 Are we in the wrong jobs ?
26 The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ .
27 And all souls are one in the great ocean of the Supreme Consciousness , the Lord .
28 There seems to be nothing in the early stages of the series which could support one continuation against the other .
29 Such conduct would clearly be a form of ‘ delivery ’ rather than the formal service effected by the authorities of the state of destination , but there seems to be nothing in the various Hague Conventions to suggest that the postal channel was any less valid than any other permitted mode .
30 Only do this where you think there may actually be someone of the right calibre available .
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