Example sentences of "[was/were] something [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were something of a phantom museum . |
| 2 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 3 | It was something about a sure light in their eye |
| 4 | And there was something about a large tortoise stove , freshly done with first-class blacklead and plenty of elbow-grease , that gladdened your eyes . |
| 5 | A legendary figure , he was something of a benevolent despot : he steadfastly refused to allow labor unions in his factories , but paid his workers a wage above the national average . |
| 6 | It is therefore apparent that labour within the Personnel area was something of a scarce resource ! |
| 7 | Descending this great river , the Oued Nfis , from that ‘ lost world ’ was something of a long dream realised . |
| 8 | Sparks and Yeates found that the new venture was something of a small goldmine , much more lucrative than cutting mens ' and boys ' hair for 6d and 3d respectively . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was a good footballer and he always looked a bit weird with his striking blond hair However , there was something of a monkey-like mischievousness about him . |
| 11 | All 10 proved negative , but he added : ‘ That was something of a dry run . |
| 12 | Mr Chettle was something of a late starter . |
| 13 | It was something of a turning point for the Prince too . |
| 14 | He was filmed , interviewed , and provided with ‘ ghosts ’ who helped him to ‘ write ’ nine books , one of them a thriller called The Test Match Surprise which was something of a best seller in the sixpenny ‘ Readers ' Library ’ ss popular in Woolworth 's in the 1920s . |
| 15 | However , it was something of a tall order when the store requested that the short presentation should include drama , music and dance and be based on Emily Bronte 's novel ‘ Wuthering Heights ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | The outcome of the elections was something of a personal reverse for President George Bush , whose popularity rating had plummeted following what was perceived as his indecisiveness in the recent budget crisis and the abandonment of his pledge not to raise taxes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The good dealer was something of a social worker as well as a salesman , developing a very intensive relationship with clients who did n't mind being churned every day . |
| 20 | If we resist the temptation to place the factory system too far back into the eighteenth century and consider the factory mode alongside other prior and parallel methods of manufacturing , it seems hard to deny that there was something of a supply-side response to an increase in demand . |
| 21 | Control of the flow of official information to newspapers and agencies and the giving of carefully orchestrated interviews to foreign correspondents were now usually more likely to be effective in moulding opinion than the mere spending of money ; and France , with its plethora of small , financially insecure and often venal newspapers , was something of a special case . |
| 22 | This type of guitar was something of a German speciality , as though the builders , while acknowledging the burgeoning ‘ beat boom ’ market of the time , could n't bring themselves to completely prostitute their art by simply cloning the famous electric guitars of America . |
| 23 | In 1942 , to someone coming from Edinburgh with its romantic Old Town skyline of spires against hills , contrasting with the austere classical splendours of the Georgian New Town , Wolverton was something of a cultural shock . |
| 24 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 25 | But that was something of a false dawn . |
| 26 | Yes , Grandad was something of a harum-scarum but I loved him nevertheless . |
| 27 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 28 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 29 | And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it . |
| 30 | But I was showing Chris my erm , you know , telephone bill which I was so horrified to discover was something like a hundred and nine pounds ! |