Example sentences of "[be] something [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is called ‘ snowflake ’ obsidian , and is something of a collector 's item . |
| 2 | The example cited is something like a dentist 's surgery where the system has to cope with payroll , patient records , appointments and the like . |
| 3 | To some extent advertising was something of a gentleman 's game . |
| 4 | Which , from a man who had fought a hook for a goodly part of his life , was something of a collector 's item . |
| 5 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |
| 6 | Mr Graham would always take the view that this ‘ dignity ’ was something like a woman 's beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse it . |