Example sentences of "be something [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got the impression you 're something of a lone wolf . |
| 2 | He was a small man , bald and beady-eyed and turkey-necked , and only in retrospect could she see that he 'd probably been something of a mental case as well . |
| 3 | His father had been something of a rough diamond , barely literate and excelling in " drinking , whoring , gaming , fishing and fighting " . |
| 4 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 5 | His letters to his daughter Amanda , accompanied by her explanatory editorial notes , reveal him to have been something of a tender tyrant in his dealings with his three children , and much happier in the country watching birds than in London coping with editors and producers . |
| 6 | A manufacturer of rich men 's toys , Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd had itself always been something of a rich man 's toy , owners like the mythical David Brown ( he of the DB4 and 5 ) underwriting the firm 's losses for sheer love of the marque . |
| 7 | Broadly , there was stability in the marriage rates from the 1870s to the 1940s , although there appears to have been something of a minor dip in those getting married in the late 1920s and 1930s . |
| 8 | At an outstanding elevation of 1000 feet , the Fat Lamb has had its fair share of battles with the elements , and its proprietors , Paul and Helen Bonsall , admit that the garden 's survival has been something of a minor miracle . |
| 9 | Readers have suggested that it might have been more profitable to give more space to fewer sorts of vegetable , but that would have been something of a soft option . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid offspring are something of a closed book to me . ’ |
| 11 | Succulent spit-roasted lamb and chicken are also among the most popular regional meals , and inland , white truffles — ‘ al tartufo ’ — are something of a great delicacy when they come into season . |
| 12 | Murder mysteries are something of a British tradition — you only have to look at the popularity of thriller novels and TV ‘ whodunits ? ’ , for example . |
| 13 | We would arrange to be something at a particular time in the evening and then the following day we would compare our thoughts . |
| 14 | Work back in your mind to the possible source of any abrasion — could it be something with a rough edge in the pond , or are there ectoparasites ( ie Argulus ) breaking the skin ? |
| 15 | Of course as a plane that could happily take half a dozen buses on board , it 's going to be something of a new experience . |
| 16 | The Audit Commission can , therefore , be something of a two-edged sword in the context of central-local relationships . |
| 17 | The second new constraint arises from the fact that Mr Clinton was always fated to be something of a weak president . |
| 18 | A writer has his work , has her works republished and proves to be something of a mixed blessing . |
| 19 | Discipline entirely without tears might be something of a pious hope ; but the right approach to discipline can minimize the ‘ griefs ’ experienced by children ( and adults ) in the course of developing into mature members of society ( or mature and confident parents ) . |
| 20 | It came in India in 1974–5 when he began with 93 and 107 ; this proved to be something of a false dawn and he had an unhappy time in Australia in 1975–6 , but he worked on his technique and finally established himself in England in 1976 with 592 runs at 65 , including a century in each innings on a poor Old Trafford pitch . |
| 21 | Not only are there competing social sciences , but everyone has to be something of a social scientist just to get by in this world . |
| 22 | There were , of course , some hidden benefits to being the head boy amongst the junior pilots , I seemed to be something of a senior subaltern , and as such donned the mantle which brings to mind the old chestnut about this essential character in regimental life who enters the Mess , sees a great array of flowers and demands " who put those bloody flowers there ? " |
| 23 | Sadly , however , the Esher result proved to be something of a RED HERRING . |
| 24 | This turned out to be something of a red herring as the official duty rate has not been applied since 1987 and in the meantime the temporary rate has already been 50 per cent less . |
| 25 | ‘ Bobby has proved himself to be something of a medical miracle already by his resilience to the treatment . ’ |
| 26 | So it would seem safe to assume that life as a gay priest might be something of a tortured path — if not a contradiction in terms . |
| 27 | Since a day return to Ribblehead may be something of a unilateral occasion , the collection aims to give it a proper station in life . |
| 28 | His ‘ game plan ’ will therefore be something of a trial-and-error affair . |
| 29 | Sophie moreover actually had a job , had an income , which was beginning to be something of a pressing issue , inflation and the changing climate began to bite into their indifferent superiority to the outside world and they had given no thought as to how to fight that . |
| 30 | It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib . |