Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You sure there 's nothing between the two of you ? ’ |
| 2 | There 's nothing between the two teams … |
| 3 | Then there 's nothing but the implacable , soul-less beat , and a subdued babble of shudders and metallic gasps . |
| 4 | A glowing profile by a local journalist of the time said : ‘ There 's nothing of the ruthless businessman in him . |
| 5 | So what is so there 's nothing to the other side , just apart from this big room ? |
| 6 | And you come over this hill and suddenly there 's nothing on the other side except a huge hole in the ground , and the road goes along almost a cliff edge the side of this erm hole which is this worked out iron ore quarry . |
| 7 | Second team or not , however , there 's nothing like the first century . |
| 8 | Ach , there 's nothing like the primitive life , is there ? ’ |
| 9 | There 's nothing like the soft texture and colour of old fabrics : learn to use and take care of them . ’ |
| 10 | Never mind the sequels , there 's nothing like the original and the proudest treasure in the archives of the Oxford University Press remains this early edition of Samuel Johnson 's very first English dictionary . |
| 11 | You know , if there 's nothing like the last week then Did you have your tea Danny ? |
| 12 | Because now I know there 's nothing behind the fancy shirt that interests me in the slightest . ’ |
| 13 | As far as the build quality is concerned , you 'd expect it to be up there with the best of the Japanese instruments , and you 'll be pleased to know that Jackson have not compromised their reputation here at all ; there 's nothing in the slightest ‘ second rate ’ about the Infinity . |
| 14 | Retiring in 1961 , there is no-one on the current staff who worked closely with Ralph but to give a flavour of his long life two articles are recreated below . |
| 15 | With what a masterly skill is everyone of the varying tints displayed . |
| 16 | Is everyone in the Agatean Empire as rich as you ? ’ |
| 17 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 18 | But if you are shocked by Margi on the television , that is nothing to the uncensored version you get on stage . |
| 19 | Though his kin , servants , and three former benefices were remembered dutifully enough , there is nothing of the wider , political world where he had made his fortune , scarcely more of his own diocese or even of the cathedral itself , before whose pulpit he sought burial . |
| 20 | If you find that the list of ‘ do n't likes ’ is very long and there is nothing on the other side to counteract it , you are not telling the truth . |
| 21 | Now there is nothing but the great ocean . |
| 22 | I think eighty five for a colour T V licence erm i is nothing but the greatest load of bull or bullshit ! |
| 23 | The Romanian government expressed its concern for " our brothers in the republic of Moldava [ Moldavia ] " , and warned that " any nostalgia for communist totalitarianism is nothing but the harmful consequence of a dangerous lapse of memory " . |
| 24 | There is nothing in the political system that forces them to consider the future . |
| 25 | There is nothing in the autonomous status of self-testimony to call for our adopting the myth of the sense behind the sentence . |
| 26 | As to what counsel said there is a keen dispute which their Lordships can not resolve , beyond observing that there is nothing in the abbreviated note of the arguments in the district court to suggest that counsel went further than to point out that the immediate future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was highly speculative . |
| 27 | They return in delight but with sadness too , for even the memory fades because there is nothing in the rational mind with which the ideas may be linked and there are no images to fix them in the memory . |
| 28 | There is nothing in the black youth 's experience to compare with that of javelin thrower Paul Brice , a white boy , whose father carefully supervised and monitored his training programmes and competitions at considerable financial expense . |
| 29 | On the other hand there is nothing in the Labour amendment which many of them would oppose anyway . |
| 30 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |