Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet here am I on a road that instead of tarmac looks like a patio laid in bricks — every one hand-placed in herringbone pattern . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're nothing but a brute and a bully ! |
| 3 | ‘ Are you on a booze-up or what ? he asked belligerently. ‘ that 's what I get for coming to see you and your mother in bed with the flu , ’ his father protested indignantly . |
| 4 | Are you in a marathon or what ? |
| 5 | Her friendship with Antonia apart , she had always been something of a loner and her peers now looked at her slightly askance . |
| 6 | So suddenly , David had wanted something — I do n't know what it was — it might have been something like a synthesizer or some extraordinary thing for the show , but the money was n't there . |
| 7 | If I could be nothing but a witness and tolerant judge of others , this ethical nihilism would be a fully rational mode of life . |
| 8 | This can be something of a problem when the user wishes to receive one ( or more ) a.m. stations on the medium or long-wave band ! |
| 9 | The idea that we might feel , that we might be angry , that we might care , that we might even have what are disparagingly known as ‘ gut feelings ’ rather than hard scientific evidence , is held to be something of a problem if you are an environmentalist on the road to success . |
| 10 | For active hunting , a heavy shell must be something of a handicap and some carnivorous molluscs have taken to a faster if riskier life by doing without it altogether and reverting to the life-style of their flatworm-like ancestors . |
| 11 | This is satisfactory enough , though it is often necessary to perch the tripod on top of a platform or a solid table , as otherwise you will have to be something of a contortionist when looking at an object high in the sky ( incidentally , the same is true of a small refracting telescope ) . |
| 12 | Public consultation about policies can therefore be something of a sham where major options and potential developments are either not shared with the public by the corporation or not conceptualized by the public . |
| 13 | The moral itself can be something of a joke as in Russell Hoban 's story ( 1974 ) where Tom , through his commitment to ‘ fooling around ’ thwarts Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen . |
| 14 | On the contrary he was taken to be something of a maverick and flutterer of dovecotes . |
| 15 | It will be something of a milestone when WCUK , North East completes the refurbishment of 48 homes in Grangetown , Cleveland this autumn . |
| 16 | A pupil who is making a constant effort to use vision as fully as possible in school tasks may sometimes find this effort to be somewhat of an overload when his or her general level of well-being is low , for instance , when suffering from a cold or feeling particularly tired . |
| 17 | Unfortunately it turned out to be somewhat of an anti-climax when a rubber dinghy with two occupants was found to be from a Fishery Protection vessel , the two officers concerned were landing to attend a wedding . |
| 18 | Discourse can be anything from a grunt or single expletive , through short conversations and scribbled notes right up to Tolstoy 's novel , War and Peace , or a lengthy legal case . |
| 19 | Being something of a wimp and rather new to this macho vocation of sharing my life with our Series III SWB diesel Land Rover , I am anticipating a winter of discontent from my family . |
| 20 | Known for being something of a perfectionist when it comes to his equipment , Murray had Martin Petersen , whose work has been favourably reviewed in Guitarist , build him a bass last year . |
| 21 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 22 | If those other components are themselves of a kind that , for example , influences the Earth 's supply of radiation , then we see that positively minute additions , at least of some kinds of pollutants , could have profound consequences for living things . |
| 23 | And there 's nothing like a conversation when you smoke . |
| 24 | ‘ The focal point is me in a school because the subject is education , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The state is nothing but a family and we 're related to his majesty Charles the First just as we are related to our dads as simple as that , you know , the private and the public are identical political relationships are fundamentally family relationships . |
| 26 | His own dismissal of deconstruction as a merely textual practice means that he is himself at a loss when faced with the complex conceptual dialectics of the same and the other . |
| 27 | Instead for millions of consumers , it is something between a chore and a nightmare … |
| 28 | ‘ I know now that there is something between a mother and her baby that even time can not take away . |
| 29 | ‘ You both have that golden skin , but yours makes one think of lovely geometrical planes , you 're all bone , she 's got bone too , but what one sees most is contour and colour — no , you are not remotely the same type , she could never be painted by a Modigliani or a Loulou , or a Piero for that matter , she is something between a Titian and a Gainsborough . ’ |
| 30 | There is something about a fire that reminds me of holiness and truth . |