Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [pron] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 2 | Wyn Stewart and her husband , Peter are proof that the Club was something of a dating agency for its members . |
| 3 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 4 | It had obviously escaped them that their pun was something of a contradiction in terms ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A fair number of towns of this rank were reputed to be boroughs , though incorporation was something of a rarity and might well depend on special circumstances : Rye , Winchelsea and Hastings , for example , were Cinque Ports . |
| 7 | The financial side was something of a problem to Winnie , who had not the faintest idea what should be charged . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His examination was something of a novelty , as it was conducted by means of written papers and not orally , as had been the case in the past . |
| 10 | The fact that in the end we were the only ones to organise our own conference was something of a surprise , as were the vast numbers of participants we attracted , far beyond all expectations . |
| 11 | When she started dancing , eight-year-old Susan Stokes was something of a phenomenon — not a drop of Irish blood in her . |
| 12 | The swimming-pool was something of a disappointment . |
| 13 | It will be appreciated that before widespread industrialisation , the erection of highly specialised buildings was something of a rarity . |
| 14 | Norton 's Coin 's participation in the race was something of a mistake , for Sirrell Griffiths had wanted to run him in the Cathcart Challenge Cup on the same day of the Cheltenham meeting , only to discover that the horse was ineligible . |
| 15 | She had never worked with him before , but the man 's name was something of a legend in the Oxfordshire Constabulary , and she was experiencing a sense of some disappointment . |
| 16 | After the dignification of the white coat this domestic chore was something of a let-down , and she did n't really need a drink so soon after breakfast . |
| 17 | Doubtless the prospect of carrying eighteen stone of solid muscle and jaw up a moving escalator was something of a disincentive . |
| 18 | In one of the schools reported above , the development was something of a " transplant " of an existing study skills programme from another school , and it remains to be seen how well this can be accommodated with IS and PSD in the ways envisaged . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Euro-elections were something of a test for the Greens . |
| 21 | The listing was something of a wet blanket — half of the shares were left with the underwriting institutions — but at least the company had got its listing away . |
| 22 | The support of the TUC for payment of the child tax credit to the mother rather than the father was something of a change of heart . |
| 23 | It is therefore apparent that labour within the Personnel area was something of a scarce resource ! |
| 24 | This particular White Paper was something of a giant , 24 feet long , one of the longest yet produced , though White Papers are invariably smaller than their Brown Paper cousins . |
| 25 | But the game was something of an anti-climax . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And , of course , she knew that Jack 's private life was something of a carnival . |
| 28 | Among racing people , Charles Caldecott was something of a joke . |
| 29 | Pierce Turner 's recently-completed Irish tour was something of a triumph . |
| 30 | At first , communication was something of a problem for the couple , as neither of them could speak the others native tongue , but this was soon overcome by a friendly interpreter . |