Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] something [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover the recording itself stands as something of a tribute to his long relationship with another French institution , the Opéra de Lyon , which he has conducted frequently since his début there in the same opera in 1981 . |
| 2 | He brings Abraham down to earth with a bump , by giving us a subtle piece of comedy in which he features as something of a country bumpkin and gets , to use unsubtle language for a moment , ‘ right done ’ ! |
| 3 | Despite relegation on the last day of the season ( which he regards as something of a relief , peace at last for a terminally ill football team ) , his favourite , most lovingly cherished day of suffering remains April 13 , 1985 . |
| 4 | Any variation greater than this indicates that something in a process has changed . |
| 5 | Any variation greater than this indicates that something in a process has changed . |
| 6 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 7 | We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage . |
| 8 | When set within an historical perspective , it comes as something of a shock to learn that primary education as we perceive it ( with children and teachers housed in buildings built or adapted to ‘ meet the needs of the children themselves , ) is a recent phenomenon . |
| 9 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |