Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be appreciated that before widespread industrialisation , the erection of highly specialised buildings was something of a rarity . |
| 2 | In this sense , ‘ free ’ carried a load of genealogical history : a free man was one with an authentic Zuwaya ancestry . |
| 3 | Contemporary art was anything but the strong point of the Salon , with Paris dealers in particular showing a large number of deja vu works and recording few sales . |
| 4 | After the dignification of the white coat this domestic chore was something of a let-down , and she did n't really need a drink so soon after breakfast . |
| 5 | Doubtless the prospect of carrying eighteen stone of solid muscle and jaw up a moving escalator was something of a disincentive . |
| 6 | This particular White Paper was something of a giant , 24 feet long , one of the longest yet produced , though White Papers are invariably smaller than their Brown Paper cousins . |
| 7 | The good dealer was something of a social worker as well as a salesman , developing a very intensive relationship with clients who did n't mind being churned every day . |
| 8 | Among its most notorious performances was one by a Brazilian troupe whose members bit the heads off live chickens in the course of the action . |
| 9 | And , of course , she knew that Jack 's private life was something of a carnival . |
| 10 | Pierce Turner 's recently-completed Irish tour was something of a triumph . |
| 11 | The financial side was something of a problem to Winnie , who had not the faintest idea what should be charged . |
| 12 | One of the most interesting papers on stratigraphical palaeontology published in recent years was one on the dating of old mining camps in the American West by means of beer bottles and beer cans . |
| 13 | Sparks and Yeates found that the new venture was something of a small goldmine , much more lucrative than cutting mens ' and boys ' hair for 6d and 3d respectively . |
| 14 | And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it . |
| 15 | Next morning the whole village was nothing but an island in a lake of rain . |
| 16 | The whole visit was something of a disaster , and he was still recovering from it months later . |