(1) Professor Fish has been nothing if not professional.

(2) He's nothing if not charming.

(3) The holiday was nothing if not varied.

(4) The trip was nothing if not varied.

(5) You've got to admit - he's nothing if not persistent.

(6) He was nothing if not vain.

(7) Shelley's prose is nothing if not inspired and inspiring.

(8) But Yeltsin is nothing if not a risk-taker.

(9) Herbert Wadlough is nothing if not reliable.

(10) The Suffolk farmhouse was nothing if not practical.

(11) That kid is nothing if not noisy.

(12) The plan was nothing if not complicated.

(13) Hillary is nothing if not aware of the pitfalls that lie ahead.

(14) Hickey was nothing if not meticulous(), and he had a flair for obscuring bad news in a fog of pieties.

(15) Self-defeating organizations are nothing if not adroit at minimizing the costs of their destructive or ineffectual actions.

(16) The World Wide Web is nothing if not a participatory medium.

(17) Virtue is nothing if not difficult.

(18) AMERICA's churches are nothing if not nimble.

(19) Providence is nothing if not coquettish.

(20) Nixon was nothing if not a realist.

(21) The present situation is nothing if not fine.

(22) Millennium is nothing if not ambitious.

(23) The Lloyds building is nothing if not unusual.

(24) He is nothing if not a gentleman.

(25) But I suppose we are nothing if not frank in the family.

(26) Hollywood is nothing if not creative, especially if someone else will pick up the bills.

(27) And Mark Thomas, 37, comedian and de facto investigative journalist, is nothing if not controversial himself.

(28) You see that the ornaments we are discussing are nothing if not arbitrary.

(29) They have screens instead of stomachs and their voices are nothing if not weird.