Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 2 | Were nothing to the upset |
| 3 | Were nothing like the real thing |
| 4 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 5 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |
| 6 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 7 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
| 8 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 9 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 10 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 11 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 12 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 13 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 14 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 16 | She would crouch by the steps , ignored , till there was no-one on the narrow spiral stair , glide like a slim shadow up to the hall , and when the next stair was free , on up to the bower , where Catriona , wife of the Maclean 's piper , had a baby . |
| 17 | When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out . |
| 18 | There was nothing but the faint image of the stained glass in the front door where the moonlight streamed through , the ticking of the clock , the bundle of coats hanging from the hallstand . |
| 19 | There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations . |
| 20 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 21 | There was nothing of the old Cath Cathy usually enjoying more of a good laugh , she was always happy and cheerful , then she fell victim to a rare diso disorder |
| 22 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but this was nothing to the delighted grandfather . |
| 23 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 24 | Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window . |
| 25 | He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil . |
| 26 | There was nothing on the seven o'clock news ; she listened again at eight and nine but still there was no mention of the hunt for Rick Lawrence . |
| 27 | But the school dinner she was wolfing down was nothing like the standard favourite of baked beans , burgers and ice-cream . |
| 28 | Barely five feet four and dressed in sensible shoes , blue silky dress and yellow sash , she was nothing like the glittering bimbos in stilettos and the quietly elegant wives of the money men sitting all around us . |
| 29 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 30 | After all , Teddy once insisted on taking a dip in Southend to prove there was nothing in the European Commission 's condemnation of the beach . |