Example sentences of "be [adv] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is extremely knowledgeable on the subject , and I am still something of an idealist at heart . |
| 2 | Women are still something of a rarity in senior positions within business and industry , despite efforts . |
| 3 | I 'm not one for a lot of late nights because I have to be on form and looking good for work . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm almost ashamed to admit it , but I 'm still something of a beginner . ’ |
| 5 | I think , oh I think the holes are a bit big are n't they for a dormouse ? |
| 6 | well are n't you on a waiting list ? |
| 7 | He was particularly pleased to be patron of Great Ormond Street , he said , because he had been there himself as a child . |
| 8 | Masha : ‘ Were n't they on a ski lift , rushing across pine trees ? ’ |
| 9 | And if they were horses , why were n't they in a barn or something ? |
| 10 | Refinement is perhaps something of a euphemism since these alterations resulted from differing estimates of the degree of error in the data , and frequently the figures show a large balancing item which is the sum total of errors and omissions . |
| 11 | In an uncertain market and given the water flotation is already something of a lottery , that is a dangerous attitude to take . |
| 12 | Dessert is usually something like a biscuit or small piece of cake or rice pudding or pie and custard ( but dessert is not eaten every night ) . |
| 13 | ’ It is always something of a shock to see black women , sharing equally ( and sometimes more than equally ) in the labor and strife of black people , expunged from the text when history becomes shaped into what we call tradition . |
| 14 | Marx 's and Engels 's position is always something of a balancing act between idealism and crude or ‘ vulgar ’ materialism and this is nowhere better illustrated than in The German Ideology and the Theses on Feuerbach . |
| 15 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 16 | If we only allow ourselves plain text as input , the output is always something of a guess . |
| 17 | Any problems within the platoon are dealt with ; my door is always open for a chat , and there is always someone with a problem . |
| 18 | Houston 's Pain Teens are a tad less psychotic than God Bullies but ‘ Born In Blood ’ , their third LP , is still something of a nightmare . |
| 19 | Houston 's Pain Teens are a tad less psychotic than God Bullies but ‘ Born In Blood ’ , their third LP , is still something of a nightmare . |
| 20 | Why restrict programmmes like this to what is still something of a ghetto channel ? |
| 21 | Just how the sperm triggers the explosive release of calcium in the egg is still something of a mystery . |
| 22 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 23 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's still something of a stigma in being an unemployed professional , ’ said Kate Comfort , director of public affairs at RIAS . |
| 25 | I think there 's probably one inside a pillow case knowing you |
| 26 | She is also something of a friend . |
| 27 | She is also something of a populist . |
| 28 | As well as being an ardent botanist , Mr Taylor is also something of a historian . |
| 29 | He 's also something of a clairvoyant . |
| 30 | He may be just a boy , but he 's also something of a genius . |