Example sentences of "is [indef pn] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air bricks , extractor fans , open fires and dehumidifiers all help , but often you have to learn to live with it — and there is nothing worse than a new house which was built in wet conditions . |
| 2 | There is nothing worse than a shy ferret . |
| 3 | Truly , there is nothing worse than a world-weary hippie , and nothing more strictly self-superior than the elders of the benevolent-beat-bohemian class . |
| 4 | There is nothing worse than a bendy sea boat . |
| 5 | Mr Pei 's pyramid in the Louvre is fine architecture , but it is nothing other than a new front door . |
| 6 | Yet for Gunn and his circle of friends AIDS is nothing other than a plague , striking randomly but inevitably . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you think a little about it you will be able to convince yourself that Rk is nothing other than the old familiar resistance ( proportional to length ; inversely proportional to cross-section ) derived in a different manner . |
| 9 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 10 | Kino 's international success is pretty doubtful however as the image is nothing new and the lyrics do n't really get through . |
| 11 | Additionally , a more complete picture of the settlement at Cosmeston is accessible to the public by virtue of the way the excavations have been interpreted and presented for the visitor : the ultimate goal is nothing less than a full-scale , working reconstruction of the medieval village . |
| 12 | It is nothing less than a national scandal that such despicable practices can take place in 1894 ! ’ |
| 13 | An absolutely blatant digression , it is nothing less than a lecture on the whole idea of locked rooms . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | This is nothing less than a call to arms to restore the vitality of the American dream , ’ he said . |
| 16 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Squatting is nothing less than the seizure of another 's property without consent . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is nothing less than the crisis of humanism as a religion being played out in economic life . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | The Jew is nothing more than a popular villain ( bear in mind that Marlowe had just had a success with The Jew Of Malta ) . |
| 30 | Perhaps the manifest intrinsic contusions which surface in each of the foregoing theories are enough to write them oft , and to show how the same/different metaphysic is nothing more than a potently confused , highly discriminating mixed metaphor . |