Example sentences of "[was/were] something [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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1 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
2 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
3 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
4 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
5 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |
6 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
7 | It appeared as if there was something more than a cupboard there . |
8 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |