Example sentences of "[verb] be [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources , natural beauty . |
| 2 | In this country , the Basic Instinct furore has been something of a non-event . |
| 3 | Conservative ministers and many commentators claim that there has been something of a revolution in British politics in the 1980s . |
| 4 | There has been something of a revolution in raising standards of quality in a number of manufacturing firms by encouraging departments within a factory to operate almost as separate companies . |
| 5 | Shaping the health care of around 900,000 people living in and around Glasgow has been something of a challenge . |
| 6 | Instead there has been something of a supermarket approach : according to the interests of the teacher a number of packages have been bought off the shelves and put in the course trolley . |
| 7 | A bloc the West can do business with Eastern Europe has been something of a wasteland for EC investment but as Julian Bullard reports , all that is changing . |
| 8 | Bringing out reports on IT has been something of a growth industry . |
| 9 | Dr Browne has been something of a maverick in Irish politics even up to this present time . |
| 10 | It has been something of a mystery how this move came about . |
| 11 | Since the late 1970's there has been something of a boom in British Rail 's passenger services , with over 150 new stations having been opened and several new services developed . |
| 12 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 13 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 14 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 15 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 16 | ‘ You know perfectly well that the girl has been anything but a comfort to me . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll tell you what , what I do n't need is somebody with an attitude problem . |
| 18 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 19 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 20 | So absorbed was she in the effort of preparing herself mentally for what lay ahead that she did not glance upstream as she drove across Cookham Bridge and wonder why there were no party-goers gathered round a marquee on the lawn of Swans ' Meadow , why indeed there was no marquee pitched on the lawn at all . |
| 21 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |
| 22 | The modernist novel thus tends to endorse the philosophical argument known as solipsism — that the only thing I can be sure exists is myself as a thinking subject . |
| 23 | Easiest to handle is one with a swan neck , where the blade is held away from the end of the handle by a curved shaft . |
| 24 | He may have been something of a money-hunter , as his correspondence shows , but on the other hand he had a big family of relatives with a call on him . |
| 25 | Teaching history and religious education to cockney teenagers must have been something of a culture shock , but Eva seems to have thrived on It , and the lively East End lads would have appreciated her outgoing personality and no nonsense approach . |
| 26 | This may have been something of a rationalisation of his instinctive desires , but it was a perfectly defensible attitude . |
| 27 | It must have been something of a shock to her system . |
| 28 | There were times when she must have been something of a pain to her superiors , but once again people were beginning to take note of her talents . |
| 29 | Army food might once have been something of a joke , but certainly not any more . |
| 30 | ‘ I just felt that though we were 14 when we last met there must have been something of the child left in our features to make us recognize each other after half a century . ’ |