Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although new roofs have been built , many windows remain smashed and most bathrooms are nothing more than rubble . |
| 2 | All of the actors , especially Hoffman , are nothing more than stooges to Peckinpah 's notions of perversity , degradation , and dung heap characterisation … this putrid , wholly offensive and nauseating snotball of a film … two hours of a running sewer disgorging human waste … |
| 3 | Nigel Profitt , 21 , of Erdington , Birmingham , and three other City supporters , were told by John Pryce , chairing a magistrates ' court hearing yesterday : ‘ You are nothing more than looters . |
| 4 | They are nothing less than soapboxes for critical sporting fans . |
| 5 | The first winners are none other than Penguin , for this gem : ‘ A dynamic campaign has been fully loaded to detonate the summer 's most electrifying thriller . |
| 6 | They began filming and there must have been something wrong because Bogie just sort of walked straight through the shot , so Eddie says , ‘ Bogie , you walked right through that shot . ’ |
| 7 | As the Indian Divisions ' official history records the fact , the men of the 4th had , at Alamein , ‘ been something more than spectators and something less than participants in the main battle . |
| 8 | Kersey said : ‘ So somebody drove the Mini to Exeter — could it have been anybody other than Inez ? ’ |
| 9 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 10 | " I said before the match that this would be my last as Captain and I have no reason to change my mind , " he added to a chorus of protest from his side . |
| 11 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 12 | He will probably be none other than General Jaruzelski , the party boss . |
| 13 | The police inspector who investigates the terrorist attack turns out to be none other than Columbo , the clerks at the hotel are discovered to be Akaky Akakievich , Badin , Devushkin , Mr Guppy , Goliadkin , Sainthomme , and Uriah Heep , and the journalists who report it include Jake Barnes , Ian Scuffling , Joe McCarthy Hynes , and Rouletabille . |
| 14 | It has to be none other than Star Trek : The Screen Saver , which Berkeley is marketing under the slogan of ‘ Beam Up or Burn Or Burn Out . ’ |
| 15 | And then I realized that the little cup she 'd brought with her out of the sea , and gave to me for Adam — that little cup could be none other than Undry . ’ |
| 16 | Therefore , he concluded , God must exist , for otherwise there would be something greater than God ( namely whatever he had defined God to be plus the additional ‘ greater-making ’ quality of existence ) . |
| 17 | I knew it must be something more than flu . |
| 18 | Peacekeeping forces do not have to be strong enough to overwhelm an army ; but they must be something more than score-keepers or targets . |
| 19 | ’ In my view there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked and accorded for the protection or promotion of the interests of the inhabitants of the area . |
| 20 | In the passage I have just quoted , Lord Templeman said that there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've had enough with that lot downstairs , going on at me as if I 'm something less than bacteria ! ’ |
| 22 | Above area councils , there will be district councils , community county councils and so forth , right up to the Ulster National Council — but at all levels the individuals will never be anything other than delegates responsible to the people . |
| 23 | Now , the relation introducing such an adjective is assignment ; but there is no reason at all for taking the relation of the predicate qualifier to be anything other than qualification . |
| 24 | There is no awareness that differentiated practices , related to national , ethnic or class traditions , have survived , nor that historical breaks — for instance , that represented by rock 'n' roll — could be anything other than pseudo-individual . |
| 25 | At least New Order do n't pretend to be anything other than musicians which is an honest statement for once . |
| 26 | Everyone is assumed to be potentially capable of having sexual relations with a person of either sex , although there could be exceptions at either end of the spectrum , that is , there are some people who are constitutionally unable to be anything other than heterosexual , and some who are unable to be anything other than homosexual . |
| 27 | ‘ Nik did n't want to be Richard 's yes-man in the company , ’ says Berry , ‘ and , frankly , he was the only person in the company with the position to be anything other than Richard 's yes-man . |
| 28 | But , in the broader terms of next Saturday 's tour opener at the Arms Park , it surely failed to convince a single soul that Cardiff will be anything other than cannon-fodder for the All Blacks . |
| 29 | Four years later , the white carpets had turned grey ; the leather-look upholstery no longer pretended to be anything other than plastic ; and the electronic gadgetry had been sold . |
| 30 | You know you 're never going to be anything more than Julius 's secretary . ’ |