Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news broke after something of a lull in the abundant reporting of incidents from the various scenes of fighting . |
| 2 | Collected Poems 1909–1935 provoked a respectful response from the critics , although there was a sense in which Eliot was now being taken for granted ; he had been assimilated , after something of a struggle against him by the purveyors of contemporary taste , and could quietly become a monument standing unnoticed by the roadside . |
| 3 | Points were dropped and three defeats over Christmas , which left Arsenal trailing five points behind Everton , made the Double look like something of a pipe dream . |
| 4 | ‘ Knowing your superb taste , Uncle , it sounds as if we 're in for something of a treat , ’ Naylor replied . |
| 5 | The Scottish Highlands went through something of a renaissance as English and Welsh moved there , often in semi-retirement , in search of a good and quieter life ( Jones et al . |
| 6 | He was an elderly man who had worked on the river all his life and regarded his present job as something of a rest on the way to full retirement . |
| 7 | ‘ So you see me as something of a threat , ’ she mused , then shrugged . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's always struck me as something of a misogynist . |
| 9 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 10 | He attributes his success in holding Basildon to the front page of Thursday 's Sun — ‘ If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ’ — and in being treated as something of a hero within sections of the Conservative Party . |
| 11 | Branson already knew enough about Laker , his entrepreneurial flair , his reputation as the champion of ‘ the ordinary man ’ in air travel , to regard him as something of a hero . |
| 12 | He also mentioned that when the guitar reaches full production level , a care kit will be included with each one — which comes as something of a relief , because at present I would be nervous about approaching this instrument even with something as seemingly innocuous as furniture polish . |
| 13 | After all that , the merely adequate Korova Milk Bar come as something of a relief . |
| 14 | After all that , the merely adequate Korova Milk Bar come as something of a relief . |
| 15 | A Fish will indeed eat the newly-hatched tadpoles of frogs and newts and regard them as something of a delicacy . |
| 16 | Bamert , of course , is known as something of a champion of 20th century music in any case , arguing that if we choose to play only the great works of an increasingly distant past , then we ‘ turn the concert hall into a museum , and ignore the fact that music is a living tradition ’ . |
| 17 | Hippopotamuses are not regarded as an endangered species , and in some areas of Tanzania and elsewhere in east and southern Africa , are seen as something of a nuisance . |
| 18 | For the Lancashire committee the vote ( 2,046 in favour , 961 against ) will have come as a relief , and for John Brewer in particular as something of a triumph . |
| 19 | They are equally brief when it comes to the details of Richard 's accession , Mancini in particular treating Gloucester 's actual assumption of the throne as something of a tailpiece to the real story . |
| 20 | They are equally brief when it comes to the details of Richard 's accession , Mancini in particular treating Gloucester 's actual assumption of the throne as something of a tailpiece to the real story . |
| 21 | For 249 Squadron the first introduction to real action on Malta came as something of a shock . |
| 22 | At the time it came as something of a shock . |
| 23 | The involvement of parents to the extent which now obtains in the majority of our primary schools comes as something of a shock to teachers visiting English primary schools from overseas . |
| 24 | Even though I thought I was becoming immune to surprises from this species , what happened came as something of a shock . |
| 25 | The tapes came as something of a shock . |
| 26 | The feel of his strong fingers enclosing her small palm came as something of a shock to her system . |
| 27 | ‘ I can see that my presence must have come as something of a shock , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Her ‘ young ’ girls and sometimes ‘ young ’ men are aged between 65 and 99 and they look forward very much to her weekly class which she describes as something of a frolic ! |
| 29 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 30 | From the gal who swore she 'd rather be dragged across a plain by wild horses than wear lipgloss , this comes as something of a surprise . |