Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 2 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 3 | By the middle of the century Arkesilas was himself on the run , fleeing from Cyrene via Euesperides to the west , where he was assassinated . |
| 4 | But Qinghua was something of an exception , being China 's top technological university , with better facilities than other institutions and a high level of prestige . |
| 5 | I am a real big fan and Bet Lynch is something of a heroine but I do n't think there are any similarities between Bet and Raquel . |
| 6 | But on this issue Spain is something of an exception . |
| 7 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 8 | To Lord John , Sharpe was nothing but a killer who had been trained and hardened to death on innumerable battlefields , while Lord John had only ever brought about the death of foxes . |
| 9 | Cameroon was something of an exception in having a number of privately owned papers : L'Echo du Cameroun , Dialogue , Le Petit Camerounais and Les Nouvelles du Mungo . |
| 10 | Yet Quisling was anything but a joke to the people he fought so hard to betray . |
| 11 | When she started dancing , eight-year-old Susan Stokes was something of a phenomenon — not a drop of Irish blood in her . |
| 12 | Gordon is something of a pianist . " |
| 13 | According to legend , the rule of Boris was something of a disaster : the Empire struggled under the burden of excessive taxation and corrupt officials , while the army was neglected and many border forts abandoned . |
| 14 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 15 | Barney Edwards is something of an enigma . |
| 16 | ‘ Today Old Delhi is nothing but a dustbin , ’ he said , sipping at his tea . |
| 17 | Gunn is something of an oddity — at least to some viewers of the local scene . |
| 18 | well I said I would n't mind spending a week at aunty Mary 's me for a week |
| 19 | The critical distinction drawn by Lord Bridge of Harwich was one between the decision making functions of the local authority and its executive functions , by which I take Lord Bridge to mean the administrative acts to be performed in giving effect to the relevant decision . |
| 20 | Yet those are mistaken who imagine ( as , for example , Warnie did ) that Mrs Moore was nothing but a distraction from the serious business of work . |
| 21 | Hari was angry as she walked back through the streets towards her home , Emily Grenfell was nothing but a snob , she thought everyone beneath her . |
| 22 | Oxford are one off the bottom in Conference A with only eight wins from 27 games . |
| 23 | One of our longest contracts is at George Outram in Glasgow , publishers of the Glasgow Herald and Evening Times , where Mary Mulgrew is something of an institution . |
| 24 | If Cornwall was anything but a land of rich squires and yeomen , it may also have enjoyed some immunity from the scourge of absolute poverty . |
| 25 | Britain was something of an exception , however , not only because of the slow development of the large corporation and mass-production techniques , but also because of the effects of a long-established , powerful and horizontally-structured trade union movement which opposed such firm-specific practices and internal labour market systems . |
| 26 | Among racing people , Charles Caldecott was something of a joke . |
| 27 | Southend are one off the bottom … but they 've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season … |
| 28 | Mr Bloomfield is something of a legend in sports publishing . |
| 29 | Marie Claire was nothing like a nun and made a noise as she walked in her high-heeled shoes . |
| 30 | In most countries , the governmental and political concern with the environment has come somewhat later than that of scientists or concerned lay people : the early development of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany is something of an exception . |