Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The sixth , Italy , was to prove something of a lame duck in their company , because of her lack of resources . |