Example sentences of "be [pron] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had happened hours ago , a lifetime ago , when he 'd kissed her , had been nothing but an aberration . |
| 2 | You know , you say how much am I worth an hour , yes . |
| 3 | You 're nothing but an exam machine to them . ’ |
| 4 | " Are you on an aircraft about to crash ? " they ask . |
| 5 | I do n't mind telling you , I am something of an expert at swimming myself , and I know some smashing spots for a jolly good sssplash up . ’ |
| 6 | Little has been seen or heard of the V of R this year , but apparently there have been something of an upheaval in the Company at the end of the season and few people are now employed . |
| 7 | Are we as an authority in contact with equivalent authorities in other member states to find out how they are tackling things ? |
| 8 | There is no portrait of Light and his appearance and personality are something of an enigma . |
| 9 | It seems , too , that certain specific proposals in Caring for People relating to the care of mentally disordered people are something of an afterthought ; certainly they read that way . |
| 10 | And , her tone suddenly changing completely , ‘ Would it really hurt you so much to pretend to be me for an hour ? ’ she asked mournfully . |
| 11 | It can be yours as an alternative to ‘ Songs of Joy' , and it 's packed with scores of nostalgic , original hits from rock'n'roll 's great heroes … the Everly Brothers , Little Richard , Fats Domino and many , many more . |
| 12 | With the community care reforms now in place and growing numbers of elderly and disabled people choosing to live in their own homes this seems to be something of an anachronism . |
| 13 | A crowd walking eight abreast can trample a good-size swathe through a hay meadow and single file just makes common sense , although I must admit the signs did seem to be something of an overkill . |
| 14 | In a Chris Bongton lavish picture book the Great Man suggests that ‘ you need to be something of an opportunist to be a successful climber … you need to seize every possible chance , from a turn in the weather to a change of line on the route . |
| 15 | Around the corner , the small office which looks like a hole in the wall of a shady bookie and turns out to be something of an art gallery , is again amiably in flow . |
| 16 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 17 | It is likely that a procedure in which search statements were split into portions which match subject heading subfields as well as into ( weak-stemmed ) words would be something of an improvement . |
| 18 | You set your sights on a meeting , you build yourself up to it , and naturally what follows can be something of an anti-climax . |
| 19 | Access entrants appeared to be something of an anomaly in this study , given their combination of relatively high graduation rates with relatively low measure of degree quality . |
| 20 | ‘ Go on , go on — what would be something like an answer ? ’ |
| 21 | With the Ellis family finances being in a perpetual state of crisis , I 'm something of an expert in the subject of raising an overdraft . ’ |
| 22 | A pupil who is making a constant effort to use vision as fully as possible in school tasks may sometimes find this effort to be somewhat of an overload when his or her general level of well-being is low , for instance , when suffering from a cold or feeling particularly tired . |
| 23 | Unfortunately it turned out to be somewhat of an anti-climax when a rubber dinghy with two occupants was found to be from a Fishery Protection vessel , the two officers concerned were landing to attend a wedding . |
| 24 | ‘ Could be anything from an Aborigine to an Atoguin . |
| 25 | But research at Larksoken has always been somewhat of an anomaly . |
| 26 | they were nothing but an excuse for idleness ; twelve hours being too many for a man to work underground without intermission . |
| 27 | It is often offered ( 'often' being something of an exaggeration ) as ‘ 8 vols. in 4 ’ instead of the original eight separate volumes . |
| 28 | These modes of thought are so deeply embedded in the collective conscious that ten years after the amalgamations , when the chief constable ( from the south ) replaced the flat cap with helmets , a number of ex-city men could not discuss the impending change without exhibiting distress and described this event as being something of an Armageddon , even though the expensive guard-style cap of the pre-amalgamation days had long since given way to what was always derided as ‘ a cheap and nasty alternative ’ . |
| 29 | To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're so romantic and silly there 's nothing to an abortion these days . |