Example sentences of "be [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can then consider the implications of this analysis for one of the general views identified in the introduction — that there has been nothing but conflict between science and religion . |
| 2 | In these three months there has been nothing but support for this scheme , some of it qualified , but nevertheless support , that it should go ahead . |
| 3 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 4 | It 's been nothing but Dennis , Dennis , Dennis ( or days now . |
| 5 | They 've been nothing but trouble since they arrived here . |
| 6 | He had been nothing but trouble for the Major . |
| 7 | I 'm beginning to think that car park has been nothing but trouble since it was built . ’ |
| 8 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |
| 9 | Then added more calmly : ‘ There 's been nothing on television or in the papers about any cut on the victims ’ foreheads . |
| 10 | But if he likes ( or does n't like ) you , status and money are nothing to Jamie . |
| 11 | We are all but a part of a whole which has its own , its distinct , its other meaning : we are not ourselves , we are crossroads , meeting places , points on a curve , we can not exist independently for we are nothing but signs , conjunctions , aggregations . |
| 12 | At the conference of the Non-Aligned held in Managua in January 1983 the Cuban Foreign Minister , Malmierca , argued that the Falklands War ‘ proved to Latin Americans that their instruments and means of collective defence with the United States , which were supposedly for protection against extrahemispheric powers , are nothing but mechanisms to be used when Washington 's interests are threatened by pro-independence actions in any of our states ’ . |
| 13 | But their record on the rights of ordinary people proves to me they are nothing but fascists . ’ |
| 14 | They are nothing but animals . |
| 15 | Whereas for the men garments have a determined , precise meaning , that is to say , a truth value , for the women clothes are nothing but signifiers open to a variety of meanings ; they are items whose function and referential meaning can easily be changed … . |
| 16 | ‘ Take it from me , Wilson , ’ said the headmaster , ‘ you are nothing like Napoleon . |
| 17 | Maybe such considerations will also mellow our attitude towards the imprisonment of nearly 9,000 men and 500 women ( representing nearly 25 and 45 per cent respectively of all those sentenced to immediate imprisonment ) for theft , handling stolen goods , fraud , and forgery , when the amounts of value involved are nothing in comparison with the millions stolen by offending corporations on whom our criminal justice system has given up . |
| 18 | ‘ Am I under arrest ? ’ |
| 19 | am I on time , am I late , |
| 20 | On the point of framing the words ‘ Am I on Mars ? ’ she stopped , because she knew ( How ? |
| 21 | Am I in bondage , that you think to parcel me off as you see fit ? |
| 22 | Am I in love ? |
| 23 | ‘ Am I in London ? ’ she asked clearly and briskly . |
| 24 | Am I in tzorriss ! ( trouble ) . |
| 25 | Am I in shot here ? |
| 26 | ‘ Am I in danger ? ’ |
| 27 | Am I in danger , Joshua ? |
| 28 | Am I in danger of getting hypothermia or frostbite ? |
| 29 | So he s , I said to him is it alright , says am I in danger of coasting if I 've got my foot on the if , if I 'm taking the corner in first and I 'm slipping and I got the clutch , I 'm using the engine but I 've , not much |
| 30 | True , neither the mews house nor any stick of furniture in it had been his by law , but they had chosen many of the items together — she relying upon his artist 's eye , he upon her money to purchase whatever his gaze admired . |