Example sentences of "[indef pn] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 2 | Your noble savage of the slums is nothing if not a realist , eh , Shelley ? ’ |
| 3 | Gooch who has Fletcher 's total support is nothing if not a fighter , however , and insisted last night : ‘ I 've no second thoughts about staying on as captain . ’ |
| 4 | So when the searcher eventually believes and becomes a Christian ( I am ignoring for the moment the other levels of understanding which are involved ) , he is nothing if not a man with a memory and a man of special gratitude : Whatever he becomes , wherever he goes , whatever he does , he should never be unaware of what once was , what might have been and what could well be again . |
| 5 | Macclesfield is nothing if not a silk town . |
| 6 | On location in Australia , he was nothing if not the life and soul of the party . |
| 7 | She is nothing if not an enthusiast and exhibits that special quality so necessary for a regular ski touring in Scotland ; a voracious appetite for sniffing out snow in sufficient quantity to make a continuous tour . |
| 8 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 9 | We never talk about it : we never talk about anything though so the fact that we do n't talk about that does n't mean much . |