Example sentences of "they be nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 3 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 4 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 5 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 6 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 7 | The doors open and shut on their own , and beyond them is nothing but the void of space . |