Example sentences of "[be] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got the impression you 're something of a lone wolf . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're not doing their job but they 're something of a distraction . ’ |
| 3 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 4 | You will see I am something of a democrat . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't mind telling you , I am something of an expert at swimming myself , and I know some smashing spots for a jolly good sssplash up . ’ |
| 6 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 7 | Dr Browne has been something of a maverick in Irish politics even up to this present time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Conservative ministers and many commentators claim that there has been something of a revolution in British politics in the 1980s . |
| 10 | Army food might once have been something of a joke , but certainly not any more . |
| 11 | A bloc the West can do business with Eastern Europe has been something of a wasteland for EC investment but as Julian Bullard reports , all that is changing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nevertheless the proportion for whom payment was thought to have been something of a problem was 7 per cent of all those in old people 's homes ( 15 per cent for private ones , 6 per cent for others ) and 17 per cent of those in nursing homes — further differences which did not reach statistical significance . |
| 15 | There has been something of a revolution in raising standards of quality in a number of manufacturing firms by encouraging departments within a factory to operate almost as separate companies . |
| 16 | Actually I have been something of a clothesaholic recently , do n't tell Derek , but I have to put that fitted wardrobe under lock and key when he 's back and hope he does n't keek in through the louvres because I would n't want him to think I was extravagant . |
| 17 | In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources , natural beauty . |
| 18 | Bringing out reports on IT has been something of a growth industry . |
| 19 | He may have been something of a money-hunter , as his correspondence shows , but on the other hand he had a big family of relatives with a call on him . |
| 20 | In this country , the Basic Instinct furore has been something of a non-event . |
| 21 | To him the childhood wedding had been something of a charade during which each character had played a part , knowing that the coming together at the end — the whole story — was not to be taken seriously . |
| 22 | Equipment is conventional , though well maintained , and there has even been something of a move to re-introduce old-fashioned reconditioned items ( e.g. vacuum cleaners ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Musically , however , they have always been something of a mystery , flitting from style to style like a sort of rubbish Paul McCartney , cruising round different aspects of pop and soiling them . |
| 25 | The front row of a scrummage has always been something of a mystery to most rugby spectators , referees and even players . |
| 26 | Facings had been something of a nightmare then , a closed book of mysterious rites that led , finally , her teacher assured her , to the temple of tailoring . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The label ‘ social science ’ has always been something of a misnomer , because in addition to the obviously collective perspectives of economics , sociology , anthropology and politics , it also includes a concern with the individual , in particular in some branches of psychology . |
| 29 | It has been something of a mystery how this move came about . |
| 30 | Her friendship with Antonia apart , she had always been something of a loner and her peers now looked at her slightly askance . |