Example sentences of "been [indef pn] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAUL LINEHAM has a story about being at home in Cork at Christmas and having to keep the band 's first two EPs by the side of his bed , so scared was he that the previous three months had been nothing more than a ‘ fierce dream ’ . |
| 2 | In all probability it really had been nothing more than a prank . |
| 3 | As though she had been nothing more than a vulnerable female creature in the presence of her mate . |
| 4 | All the tenderness he 'd shown her had been nothing more than a sham , just a front to convince the interested public that they were lovers . |
| 5 | This , however , may have been nothing more than the fact that nuclear energy constituted a clearly defined and nascent policy sector , and one which , since unlike other policy areas such as coal or agriculture there were hardly any national interests or groups to consider , could quite easily be separated from the rest of national policy making . |
| 6 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 7 | In this case , it seems to have been someone other than the person who was to use the manuscript who ordered it to be copied . |
| 8 | It is , I am told , German settlers in County Wexford who are responsible for the Irish Brie called St Edi now being peddled in this country ; the assault of its ammoniac smell brought back to me with terrible force a twenty-two-year-old memory of the Camembert of war-time Egypt which , I now realize , could have been none other than the handiwork of a German fifth column active in Alexandria . ) |
| 9 | What happened between early and later Greek society to generate these developments must have been something other than the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy alone since literacy was present in both periods . |
| 10 | He has never been anything other than a raggamuffin , and that 's why his fans identify with him totally . |
| 11 | From the first moments , when my brothers and I stood there incredulous as Blyth screamed and jumped and tugged at his leg , to the tearful farewell of Blyth 's parents and Diggs taking statements ( a bit even appeared in the Inverness Courier which was picked up for its curiosity value by a couple of the Fleet Street rags ) , not one person even suggested that it might have been anything other than a tragic and slightly macabre accident . |
| 12 | He was too much of a loser to have been anything more than a hired hand . |