Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pron] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx provided the bones of an analysis of marriage as female domestic slavery , although he was personally something of a rearguard romantic ; Weber argued for sex-equality within marriage . |
| 2 | It was nevertheless something of a relief to find Fordham notably unmoved by such distant calls to glory . |
| 3 | Having had three reviews printed and received a veiled death threat from The Godfathers , I was already something of a celebrity in my native Wigan when I took the train to Commonwealth House . |
| 4 | But of course Mary Armour was already something of a veteran by then . |
| 5 | To imagine that the revived realism of the 1950s and after excluded other possibilities , then , is to misunderstand its nature , and the chauvinism of the school was always something of a pose . |
| 6 | Even so , with water in normal supply , locking at Foxton takes an hour or more ; slow working was always something of a disadvantage . |
| 7 | In the wake of Watergate and other scandals , the pejorative connotations of the imperial presidency gained added weight , but the concept was always something of a cliché . |
| 8 | He was always something of a showman and sought to attract extra revenue by utilising the tramway as an attraction : to this end he introduced Illuminations tours , reintroduced the Circular Tour and created new feature cars , attracting commercial sponsorship . |
| 9 | Despite its new coat of paint it was still something of a relic , something of an enigma , resembling , in its apparently purposeless massiveness , some strange arrangement of stones on the site of a vanished civilization . |
| 10 | There was school , and a lot of sport , and time spent in the mountains ; but music was clearly something of a priority . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Pat McGibbon senior now reckons his wee lad was probably something of a visionary . |
| 13 | It was also something of a reassurance to conservative waverers frightened of political radicalism ; the Council was committed to evangelization of the Christian gospel . |
| 14 | ‘ Nationwide circulation ’ was also something of a fiction . |
| 15 | He was also something of an entertainer . |
| 16 | Of course the word NEW was now something of a misnomer . |
| 17 | It did not sound like a threat ; there was even something of a promise about it . |
| 18 | It was actually thirty million was n't it of a claim for fifty million , of which there was also a secondary claim which was dropped . |
| 19 | Sometimes she remembered Thomas 's parting words to her and thought that perhaps she was indeed something of an innocent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Already prone in his diaries to use the superlative it was indeed somewhat of a problem in trying to entice people to see the beauties of the Lake District , not to use repeatedly such expressions as ‘ the grandest view of all ’ , ‘ one of the finest assemblages in England ’ , over and over again . |
| 22 | It was therefore something of a surprise last Wednesday to amble into Darlington 's new Thai restaurant and find four-fifths of the D&S editorial staff seated serendipitously to lunch . |
| 23 | Since fewer than ten English harpsichords survive from this period it was therefore something of a rarity , and quite obviously a highly prized and valuable acquisition . |