Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish are seeing something of a cricketing revival … it 's the fastest growing sport in their home country , and they feel confident about taking on the World 's best . |
| 2 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 3 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 4 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 5 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 6 | There are , for example , far too many films portraying psychopaths , homicidal maniacs and serial killers , the audience being spared none of the morbid details . |
| 7 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 8 | Is there anything which needs to be cleared up with someone else that is robbing you of a clear conscience ? |
| 9 | Kylie , who 's undergone something of a radical image change in the last few months , has just released her new album , ‘ Let's Get To It ’ . |
| 10 | The truth is that the party leadership , in contradiction to its own declarations , is ridding itself of the democratic wing of the party and is preparing for social revenge and for a party and state coup . " |
| 11 | There is no money , the country is in a crisis from which there seems no way out , and anyone who wants hard currency is selling anything of the slightest interest . |
| 12 | It is understood none of the three have been informed there is to be disciplinary hearing but a file is in the hands of Deputy Chief Constable Michael Argent who is in charge of force discipline . |
| 13 | And that it it 's saying which of the following days of action has the group participated in . |
| 14 | The next stage is to decide which of the potential projects to work on . |
| 15 | The next stage is to decide which of the potential projects to work on . |
| 16 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 17 | This is to say nothing of the varied forms and objects of laughter that there may be : spontaneous hilarity ; dark chuckles over black humour ; knowing , ironic laughter ; the nervous giggles of imperfect comprehension . |
| 18 | Rees thereupon complained to the European Commission of Human Rights that , by refusing to alter the recorded sex on his birth certificate , the United Kingdom , through its law , is depriving him of the legal status corresponding to his actual condition , to which he is rightfully entitled by Article 8 . |
| 19 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 20 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 21 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 22 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 23 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 24 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 25 | The sixth , Italy , was to prove something of a lame duck in their company , because of her lack of resources . |