Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [pron] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is extremely knowledgeable on the subject , and I am still something of an idealist at heart . |
| 2 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 3 | His early arrival was clearly something of an inconvenience to his lordship and his colleagues who had reckoned on a day or two more of privacy for their preparations . |
| 4 | He was also something of an entertainer . |
| 5 | Sometimes she remembered Thomas 's parting words to her and thought that perhaps she was indeed something of an innocent . |
| 6 | Thom could safely be publicly discounted as an eccentric ( he was indeed something of an eccentric in many of his personal habits ) and a generally irrelevant gadfly , but it was rather more difficult to depict Hawkins 's computer in the same light . |