Example sentences of "[pron] of a [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was also something of a femme fatale , with the looks of a young Marlene Dietrich , and a blasé manner to match . |
| 2 | By means of this simple model , Keynes was able to accommodate the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour within his income-expenditure theory of employment , something of a tour de force . |
| 3 | The dichotomy between the ‘ British ’ and ‘ Scottish ’ Labour parties is becoming something of a cause celebre is it not ? |
| 4 | ‘ There has been something of a buzz around . |
| 5 | That kind of anthropological writing was to become very fashionable after World War One , and was to be made into something of a fet fetish , by people like Bronoslaw Melanovski , here at L S E , Margaret , er , to quote the worst case , er , an an and others . |
| 6 | Postscript originated from Adobe Systems , and has become something of a de facto standard for desktop publishing . |
| 7 | Since this does not exist , the next best , in a UNIX environment , is the troff style of embedded mark-up , which is something of a de facto UNIX standard . |
| 8 | Eternity — something like that , you know ? , in some way , it 's a tale that in , the , that embraces those er thoughts that so many people are thinking these days , and yet I 'm an old fashioned fellow , erm and I say that by saying er yes , this , this is some , somewhat of a er new age category , all these things . |