Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dark stormclouds overhead were nothing compared to the ominous light now shining in Julius 's eyes . |
| 2 | Chilly as it was , it was nothing compared to the day little Rizla came kicking into a snowy world of white . |
| 3 | Understandably , Kendall could hardly contain himself , but it was nothing compared to the way he celebrated Peter Beardsley 's winner six minutes from the end . |
| 4 | If the noise from the uninhibited , cheering , stamping , singing 8,3000 crowd had felt intimidating to Sampras when the fourth set score reached 5–3 and he was also trailing by two sets to one , it was nothing compared to the tumult during the changeover after the American had held the 9th game to 15 , with an ace . |
| 5 | What Richard had done was nothing compared to the havoc that Rourke had created within her . |
| 6 | But it was nothing compared to the strain of walking out on to that huge expanse of stage and facing the crowd . |
| 7 | Mind you , mastering the stilts was nothing compared to the challenge of remaining astride a unicycle : |
| 8 | Thus was I blinded to the fact that he is , in fact , the quintessential heavy metal arsehole . |
| 9 | ‘ What I did was I went to the ESP factory in New York , back in 1987 . |
| 10 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 11 | Robinson established a close relationship with Monck and was himself returned to the Convention Parliament for London . |
| 12 | The Glossopteris flora was only one of several widespread late Palaeozoic floras and was itself limited to the then Gondwana region . |
| 13 | She herself had long abandoned Highbury to be with her Miss Dinah ; not only was she devoted to the children , but she could make a little money by letting her own house . |
| 14 | Foxe describes his last moments : ‘ He was brought forth to the place of execution , was there tied to the stake , and then strangled by the hangman , and afterwards with fire consumed in the morning at the town of Vilvorde , AD 1536 ; crying thus at the stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice : ‘ Lord , open the King of England 's eyes ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Or was he addicted to the game Striker as a kid where the goalie adopted a similar position ( mine always seemed to do a Sprake and throw the ball back into my own net ) . |
| 16 | Was he committed to the role of protector , or did he just love flying ? |
| 17 | A ‘ universal ’ old age pension did not exist in principle until 1956 , and not until 1965 was it extended to the peasantry and made universal in practice . |