Example sentences of "be [indef pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe felt a sudden fear that he had raised a false alarm and the force he had seen had been nothing but a feint . |
| 2 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 3 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 4 | ‘ She 's been nothing but a nuisance all her life . ’ |
| 5 | What had happened hours ago , a lifetime ago , when he 'd kissed her , had been nothing but an aberration . |
| 6 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 7 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 8 | There 's been nothing in the media about the hair either , but that piece of unpleasantness seems to be generally known . |
| 9 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 10 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 13 | All these ‘ signs ’ of ‘ inadequacy ’ are nothing of the kind but are indicators of poverty and powerlessness . |
| 14 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 15 | But these are nothing to the disadvantages I see to just living with a man . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 19 | are nothing like the ones that he using ! |
| 20 | ‘ Of course , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ the assassin may have been someone in the Tower who knew where Sir Ralph lay , and seized the opportunity of the moat freezing over to gain access to the footholds on the North Bastion . |
| 21 | Some people swore it must have been someone in the Martin family . |
| 22 | When she had thrown the gravel , there had been someone in the pill-box directly ahead of her . |
| 23 | It must have been someone from the village , Rose said : who else would be walking in the woods at that hour ? |
| 24 | There are plenty on the sample but that is to show how they can be built up . |
| 25 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 26 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 27 | It must have been somebody from the village . |
| 28 | You 're nothing but a menace in here . ’ |
| 29 | You 're nothing but a conniving , scheming , little bitch ! ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |