Example sentences of "[am/are] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 2 | Is my hon. Friend aware that in my constituency the majority of people infinitely prefer the council tax to Labour 's alternative — the so-called fair rates , which are nothing but a return to the dreaded rating system that we had before , and which was especially hated in the south of England ? |
| 3 | From the point of view of certain owners , these diet-shifts are nothing but a nuisance , but if ever , for some dramatic reason , the cat found itself without its usual owner , they would stand it in good stead . |
| 4 | You know , you say how much am I worth an hour , yes . |
| 5 | Yet here am I on a road that instead of tarmac looks like a patio laid in bricks — every one hand-placed in herringbone pattern . |
| 6 | Am I before a court ? , |
| 7 | So not only am I in a job I know , I 'm also in a position to pass vital information back to the Israelis . |
| 8 | You 're nothing but a menace in here . ’ |
| 9 | You 're nothing but a conniving , scheming , little bitch ! ’ |
| 10 | Reading some sections of the media recently , children of lone parents are talked about as as if they 're nothing but a drain on state resources . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're a fool , I thought differently of you , but you 're nothing but a fool , a lovesick fool , like every other idiot girl I 've known . |
| 12 | You 're nothing but a cheater ! ’ |
| 13 | You 're nothing but a cold , calculating … ’ |
| 14 | Looking at the man , he says , ‘ You 're nothing but a pile of chits . ’ |
| 15 | You 're nothing but a scheming , conniving , low-down … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're nothing but a brute and a bully ! |
| 17 | And she said you 're nothing but a load of old busybodies and how dare you and oh the language . |
| 18 | We 're nothing but a bunch of museum pieces : machines can do everything that we can do , only faster and cheaper . |
| 19 | Yeah , but they 're nothing but a bunch of wankers speak |
| 20 | You 're nothing but an exam machine to them . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They 're not doing their job but they 're something of a distraction . ’ |
| 22 | Are you as a shareholder in a position to finance the purchase ? |
| 23 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 24 | ‘ Are you on a booze-up or what ? he asked belligerently. ‘ that 's what I get for coming to see you and your mother in bed with the flu , ’ his father protested indignantly . |
| 25 | Are you on a diet ? |
| 26 | Are you at a meeting tonight ? |
| 27 | ‘ How good are you with a bow ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Are you in a rush to get back ? ’ |
| 29 | Er are you in a union ? |
| 30 | ‘ Are you in a position to press a case ? ’ |