Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah yes , when it comes to that , Violette and I are two of a kind , ’ he said with mock mournfulness . |
| 2 | Erm , I am tentatively erm provisionally very hopeful , but I am fearful of a number of things , I three observations in respect , observations in respect of them . |
| 3 | But I am conscious of a sense of contradiction that clearly did not afflict those illustrious figures . |
| 4 | ‘ I am more of a farmer , My Lord . |
| 5 | His wife who I am told still resides up at Fiesole has been heard to call her husband ‘ the old Brute ’ and when a wife speaks thus I am more of a mind to listen than not . |
| 6 | I am fond of a notice which appears on a rare advertisement leaf in some copies of Robert Boyle 's Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymicall Principles ( 1680 ) : |
| 7 | As the lorries are unloaded I am aware of a disturbance . |
| 8 | Yesterday Dr Williamson said : ‘ I am aware of a difference of understanding between some committee members and the health authority . |
| 9 | Yesterday Dr Williamson said : ‘ I am aware of a difference of understanding between some committee members and the health authority . |
| 10 | ‘ That was a bad day , but I 'm hopeful of a lot better luck on All At Sea . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 'm not so much a guitarist ; I 'm more of a listener — still . |
| 12 | I 'm more of a match for Lemarchand . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm more of a party girl , myself . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm more of a steak and chips man |
| 15 | It 's not that I 'm afraid of a patch . |
| 16 | As I 'm short of a huntsman , might I ask you , Mrs. Stevenson , very kindly to go downwind and watch him away ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm short of a chop , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Back in Britain a year or two later , I was one of a panel collected to perform before a group of young Americans who were paying Richard Demarco , Edinburgh 's most flamboyant cultural entrepreneur , for the privilege of drinking the wisdom of the New Scottish Enlightenment at source . |
| 19 | I was one of a group of army cadets taken on an adventurous training camp , at Newtonmore , to learn new skills . |
| 20 | I was one of a profession just becoming popular and common — the visualiser for the armchair quarterback . ’ |
| 21 | He used to tell me I was less of a woman than most women ; that I was a woman in flesh but a man in spirit ; that I was an hermaphrodite nouveau , a third sex . |
| 22 | As recently as 1987 I was aware of a situation where a fox killed two ferrets in one burrow , a line ferret and a loose ferret . |
| 23 | When I pushed open the gate to the courtyard I was aware of a commotion . |
| 24 | But I was more of a dogsbody really — I was ‘ allowed ’ to help with conveyancing , but most of the time I made the coffee and did bits of typing , especially if the other secretary , Doreen , was absent . |
| 25 | ‘ Even back at primary school I was more of a homey , crafty person . |
| 26 | I was more of a hooligan than what they were used to , ’ Bailey snorts . |
| 27 | I was glad of a reason to visit Mary in her new home . |
| 28 | Watching the engine being put away , I was conscious of a lack of atmosphere at Aberystwyth terminus . |
| 29 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 30 | I was conscious of a kind of pause between beginnings and endings . |