Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 2 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 3 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 4 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 5 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 6 | All these ‘ signs ’ of ‘ inadequacy ’ are nothing of the kind but are indicators of poverty and powerlessness . |
| 7 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ the assassin may have been someone in the Tower who knew where Sir Ralph lay , and seized the opportunity of the moat freezing over to gain access to the footholds on the North Bastion . |
| 9 | When she had thrown the gravel , there had been someone in the pill-box directly ahead of her . |
| 10 | It must have been someone from the village , Rose said : who else would be walking in the woods at that hour ? |
| 11 | There are plenty on the sample but that is to show how they can be built up . |
| 12 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 13 | It must have been somebody from the village . |
| 14 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , despite the specifications and price of the tool , there are none of the nozzle accessories that would exploit the full potential of the machine ; these must be purchased separately . |
| 16 | Because acrylics dry so quickly , overpainting is a simple process and there are none of the danger associated with oil paints in this respect . |
| 17 | All the stories are drawn and there are none of the photo stories which are to be found in the magazines for older girls of the time . |
| 18 | In the United States , although associations for multi-employer bargaining purposes exist in a number of key areas and industries , there are none with the membership density or authoritative stature possessed by many of their European counterparts ( Adams , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Data General chief , Ron Skates , said he ‘ anticipates OEM agreements ’ for CLARiiON , though there are none in the bag as yet . |
| 20 | How far those Saxons who disagreed were able to flee into wilder parts of the Weald may be doubted ; there seems to have been none of the resistance in wild areas which the Normans met when Hereward fled to the Isle of Ely and Yorkshiremen fought back . |
| 21 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 22 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 23 | ‘ I just felt that though we were 14 when we last met there must have been something of the child left in our features to make us recognize each other after half a century . ’ |
| 24 | There had always been something of the fairground barker about Mr Broadhurst and during this period he enhanced it . |
| 25 | Small as it was , the incident disturbed her , perhaps because there had been something about the man that had appealed to her . |
| 26 | Oxford are one off the bottom in Conference A with only eight wins from 27 games . |
| 27 | Southend are one off the bottom … but they 've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season … |
| 28 | The two liturgies of Word and of Eucharist are one in the Mass , but a liturgy of the Word in any circumstance should serve our next and further celebrations of Mass . |
| 29 | At LDC level , an extrapolation of the figures provided by Edwards and Lloyd ( 1981 ) suggests that there are something in the order of 14,000 local-level formal meetings a year . |
| 30 | The caveat that we 've put against the whole report is that there are something in the region of half a dozen major government initiated reviews into fire safety in this country . |