Example sentences of "[is] [indef pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he 's nothing but a nuisance . |
| 2 | She 's nothing but a hussy , tart |
| 3 | She 's nothing but a hussy , tart |
| 4 | That it 's nothing but a coincidence ? |
| 5 | My mother , who came from a staunchly ‘ church ’ family , used to express her antipathy when she often declared , ‘ He 's nothing but a chapel dodger , ’ and it 's difficult to describe the scorn that she would put into the phrase . |
| 6 | That warren 's nothing but a death-hole ! |
| 7 | She 's nothing but a lying , scheming little bitch ! ’ |
| 8 | It 's nothing but a pain . |
| 9 | because it 's nothing of a job . |
| 10 | But it 's nothing to a firm like McDonald 's . ’ |
| 11 | There 's nothing like a steam railway to evoke the atmosphere needed for a truly British Romantic film set in days gone by . |
| 12 | ‘ My wife says there 's nothing like a romance . |
| 13 | And there 's nothing like a conversation when you smoke . |
| 14 | I sat a moment cursing the junkie builders , then suddenly the thought came : Hang on , Jimbo , this could be good news ( there 's nothing like a crack on the nut with a lead pipe to wake a body up ) , this could mean we 've got fresh water piped to the back door whenever it rains , and sucks to the waterboard . |
| 15 | Facing page : there 's nothing like a brew to soothe aching limbs but where 's the Kendal Mint cake ? |
| 16 | Basically , there 's nothing like a combo for doing that . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There 's nothing like a cup of tea , dear , ’ she said comfortingly , as she filled it . |
| 18 | So there is nothing for a family to be afraid of . |
| 19 | ‘ You are so right , ’ the stranger said , always with that look of persiflage upon her face , ‘ there is nothing to a degree , unless you are a complete clod , I got mine for a bet — ’ |
| 20 | There is nothing much to be proud of , to be sure , in all this ; and the self-sufficient hero , who knows it , is nothing of a boaster . |
| 21 | To listen to the sanctimonious critics in the ‘ serious ’ papers , on TV and , particularly , in Parliament , you would think that the Press is nothing but a quagmire of evil . |
| 22 | Daughter of a brilliant and beautiful mother , who died giving birth , the gauche and unconfident Catherine Sloper lives in the shadow of her rich father 's thinly veiled contempt … when the young handsome and charming Morris Townsend falls in love with her , the father thinks he is nothing but a fortune seeking bounder . |
| 23 | Any further increase of the star image is nothing but a nuisance … |
| 24 | Because it is nothing but a middle , without beginning or end . |
| 25 | She is nothing but a pawn of reactionary forces at home and abroad who are trying to turn China into a bourgeois republic . |
| 26 | ‘ Quite frankly , our ‘ program ’ is nothing but a hotchpotch of irreconcilable and conflicting elements and objectives ; it reduces economics to a farce , ’ writes Budhoo . |
| 27 | When I wake the candle has burned right down so that in the enamel holder there is nothing but a lava flow or wax . |
| 28 | If it is insisted that image worship is nothing but a form of idol worship , Gandhi 's response to this accusation is that image worship is simply indicative of man 's need for symbols . |
| 29 | The result , of course , is that while RAI presents basketball or football with an advertising ratio not unlike British commercial television , the private networks are forever interrupting events to inform viewers that the penalty was brought to you by the Galbani Salami company or that Nigel Mansell 's dash from pole position is nothing but a gift from the state oil conglomerate . |
| 30 | The state is nothing but a family and we 're related to his majesty Charles the First just as we are related to our dads as simple as that , you know , the private and the public are identical political relationships are fundamentally family relationships . |