Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [indef pn] of [art] [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 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 6 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The sixth , Italy , was to prove something of a lame duck in their company , because of her lack of resources . |