Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] something [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 2 | It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into . |
| 3 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |
| 4 | For two people who both were always in control , this was something of a miracle — to let go of control completely — to trust enough that they were both hurled into the abyss of pure sensation , pure feeling . |
| 5 | This was something of an exaggeration , and paleontologists made serious mistakes when reconstructing the more bizarre species from the older rocks , but only the anatomist could hope to make sense out of the discoveries . |
| 6 | This was something like the art the Progressive era needed . |
| 7 | The Almighty was something of an embarrassment to the BBC of late , ever since He had ceased to be the exclusive property of the Church of England . |
| 8 | The years 1794–1806 were something of a honeymoon for the Prussians and their Poles : a spirit of co-operation flourished as the Prussians sought to secure the affections of their Polish subjects . |
| 9 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 10 | I have to say that the boom of the nineteen eighties was something of a myth . |
| 11 | Woodline Design did not rest on any past laurels ; it was highly solvent and very successful , and it did n't take long for Merrill to discover that Luke was the driving force behind it , and that her initial impression of him as dynamic was something of an understatement . |
| 12 | Because FI , in the wake of Renault , was shifting towards the turbo engine and because McLaren was beginning to develop the TAG/ Porsche engine , 1982 was something of a transitional year at the team and both Niki and his team-mate John Watson suffered in the results table , Watson actually finishing ahead of Niki in the championship , the first time he had ever been upstaged within his own team . |
| 13 | The opening set in particular was something of a disappointment . |
| 14 | That was something at the time that I felt I did n't really need myself . |
| 15 | All 10 proved negative , but he added : ‘ That was something of a dry run . |
| 16 | But that was something of a false dawn . |
| 17 | That was something of an exaggeration , but any emphasis on the rate of growth of manufacturing generally must take account of the weight of particular export-inclined industries in total output . |
| 18 | ‘ The year 1967 was something of an annus mirabilis as far as liberal legislation in the sphere of sexual mores was concerned . ’ |
| 19 | The general election of 1906 was something of a watershed in British politics . |