Example sentences of "[is] nothing [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing worse than a jam where there 's not bits in it could be anything . |
| 2 | Nastiest — ‘ There 's nothing worse than an ex-junkie . ’ |
| 3 | And try to avoid travelling in the rush hour … there 's nothing worse than the combination of a traffic jam and a screaming baby , believe me ! |
| 4 | For Christmas Day there 's nothing better than a sparkler which will carry you through any first course . |
| 5 | There 's nothing nicer than an evening hack after a day in the office , and even if you prefer riding earlier , the extra hour of daylight somehow seems to lift the spirits . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's nothing more than a teenager ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's nothing more than a crowd of women having a cup of tea . |
| 8 | But it 's nothing more than a double-cross , really . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's nothing less than a murderer . |
| 10 | Yet for Gunn and his circle of friends AIDS is nothing other than a plague , striking randomly but inevitably . |
| 11 | The principal mark of sovereign majesty and absolute power is essentially the right to impose laws on subjects generally without their consent Law is nothing other than the command of the sovereign in the exercise of his power . |
| 12 | Short-term pain for long-term gain — or in his words , ‘ this is nothing less than a call to arms , to restore the vitality of the American dream ’ . |
| 13 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 14 | An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’ |
| 16 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 17 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 18 | It is nothing less than the invocation of a two-language model of social scientific inquiry : that of theory and that of research ; that of concepts and that of variables . |
| 19 | The development of creativity is nothing less than the stocking of the mind with innumerable images and allowing the mixture to work as in fermentation to produce its astonishing results . |
| 20 | But the play also acknowledges quite clearly that what is at stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the whole social order , hinging as it does on a ‘ naturally ’ sanctioned law of sexual difference . |
| 21 | Squatting is nothing less than the seizure of another 's property without consent . |
| 22 | It is nothing less than the crisis of humanism as a religion being played out in economic life . |
| 23 | The renewed mind is nothing less than the mind of Christ in the believer , a mind so under his authority that its presuppositions are entirely influenced and informed by the truth of God . |
| 24 | As for Genet , someone whose involvement with the different has variously been repudiated as fascist , racist , and anarchistic , his Prisoner of Love is nothing less than an affirmation of the love that Fanon envisaged and which has sometimes given the dissident their courage . |
| 25 | Wood 's principles are those of Loudon more than three decades later : ‘ a palace is nothing more than a cottage IMPROVED ’ , he wrote . |
| 26 | ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance . |
| 27 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 28 | Thus , it is nothing more than a clearing house which does nothing in its own right . |
| 29 | If life is nothing more than a moving from one activity to the next it is not surprising if we become restless , cluttered and superficial . |
| 30 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |