Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [indef pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refinement is perhaps something of a euphemism since these alterations resulted from differing estimates of the degree of error in the data , and frequently the figures show a large balancing item which is the sum total of errors and omissions . |
| 2 | In an uncertain market and given the water flotation is already something of a lottery , that is a dangerous attitude to take . |
| 3 | Dessert is usually something like a biscuit or small piece of cake or rice pudding or pie and custard ( but dessert is not eaten every night ) . |
| 4 | ’ It is always something of a shock to see black women , sharing equally ( and sometimes more than equally ) in the labor and strife of black people , expunged from the text when history becomes shaped into what we call tradition . |
| 5 | Marx 's and Engels 's position is always something of a balancing act between idealism and crude or ‘ vulgar ’ materialism and this is nowhere better illustrated than in The German Ideology and the Theses on Feuerbach . |
| 6 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 7 | If we only allow ourselves plain text as input , the output is always something of a guess . |
| 8 | Any problems within the platoon are dealt with ; my door is always open for a chat , and there is always someone with a problem . |
| 9 | Houston 's Pain Teens are a tad less psychotic than God Bullies but ‘ Born In Blood ’ , their third LP , is still something of a nightmare . |
| 10 | Houston 's Pain Teens are a tad less psychotic than God Bullies but ‘ Born In Blood ’ , their third LP , is still something of a nightmare . |
| 11 | Why restrict programmmes like this to what is still something of a ghetto channel ? |
| 12 | Just how the sperm triggers the explosive release of calcium in the egg is still something of a mystery . |
| 13 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 14 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's still something of a stigma in being an unemployed professional , ’ said Kate Comfort , director of public affairs at RIAS . |
| 16 | I think there 's probably one inside a pillow case knowing you |
| 17 | She is also something of a friend . |
| 18 | She is also something of a populist . |
| 19 | As well as being an ardent botanist , Mr Taylor is also something of a historian . |
| 20 | He 's also something of a clairvoyant . |
| 21 | He may be just a boy , but he 's also something of a genius . |
| 22 | It 's also something of a con . |
| 23 | And some spake up saying , Well , all right , but it is really nothing but a Co incidence ; iii . |
| 24 | The organizers of the exhibition wanted a Boston Tacker to stand in the foyer to tie in with the theme of the seventy fifth anniversary of the B U locating however , locating the complete model has proved something of a headache like the Model T Ford , the Boston Tacker was always very common but is now something of a rarity and the branch had finally settled for head to be borrowed from C and J Clarke , shoe machi , museum in Street , Somerset . |
| 25 | Talking to saints as if they were there , is surely nothing but a mark of faith . |
| 26 | He 's even something of a linguist apparently he can grunt monosyllables in five languages . |
| 27 | To focus on Dycarbas is unfortunately something of a distraction ; his supposedly ‘ fumbling interventions ’ [ Landry , 103 ] have little to do with the outcome of the play , and the final disasters are exclusively the result of sexual jealousy among young male characters . |
| 28 | Although the Chronicle for Cnut 's reign is evidently something of a patchwork , much of it may be from an early date . |
| 29 | The expression ‘ plea bargain ’ is actually something of a misnomer . |
| 30 | It 's certainly something of a treat to have three such delectable instruments to look at , and so in an attempt to be logical I 'll examine the T4-SB four string first , then the five and the six last . |