Example sentences of "[noun sg] be nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a superficially attractive theory , but the proposed phoneme is nothing like the other phonemes we have identified up to this point — putting it simply , it does n't have any sound . |
| 2 | A craftsman is nothing without the exercise of his craft . |
| 3 | Few Marxists now hold to the traditional claim that the state is nothing but the executive committee of the bourgeoisie . |
| 4 | Harold Carter , some of you will know of him and have heard of him who was er , a preacher within one of the early preachers within the pentecostal movement in this country , and one of their teachers , said that to teach people to wait for the Holy Spirit is nothing in the world but a combination of works , and unbelief . |
| 5 | He would show the Catholic that the Church is nothing without the Word spoken in the crucifixion . |
| 6 | The slave was nothing in the eyes of the law . |
| 7 | And that voice was nothing like the voice he had heard on the tape of church music . |
| 8 | If there is a bob or two to be made , old rootstocks may be sold as ‘ hedging roses ’ with a bit of brash advertising — it does not matter if the illustration is nothing like the truth , the media do not know any better — and somebody will buy them , they always do . |
| 9 | Theda is nothing of the sort . ’ |
| 10 | But when a goods engine makes its appearance from the outer darkness , it is possible to realize that the shunters ' apparent madness is nothing but the acme of method . |
| 11 | The Romanian government expressed its concern for " our brothers in the republic of Moldava [ Moldavia ] " , and warned that " any nostalgia for communist totalitarianism is nothing but the harmful consequence of a dangerous lapse of memory " . |