Example sentences of "be [adv] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is extremely knowledgeable on the subject , and I am still something of an idealist at heart . |
| 2 | Women are still something of a rarity in senior positions within business and industry , despite efforts . |
| 3 | I 'm not one for a lot of late nights because I have to be on form and looking good for work . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm almost ashamed to admit it , but I 'm still something of a beginner . ’ |
| 5 | I think , oh I think the holes are a bit big are n't they for a dormouse ? |
| 6 | well are n't you on a waiting list ? |
| 7 | He was particularly pleased to be patron of Great Ormond Street , he said , because he had been there himself as a child . |
| 8 | Masha : ‘ Were n't they on a ski lift , rushing across pine trees ? ’ |
| 9 | And if they were horses , why were n't they in a barn or something ? |
| 10 | Refinement is perhaps something of a euphemism since these alterations resulted from differing estimates of the degree of error in the data , and frequently the figures show a large balancing item which is the sum total of errors and omissions . |
| 11 | Blunt object I was interested to note that your November cover star Marky Mark is apparently something of a born-again cockney , a fact betrayed perhaps by the self-descriptive rhyming slang on the front of his baseball cap … |
| 12 | There is literally nothing of an official nature which can serve as a guide to possible fluctuations in the intervening years . |
| 13 | Police fixtures , the Pilgrim Society was started without knowledge of this and is thus something of an odd coincidence . |
| 14 | Mary Crawford says many harsh words about the aspect of marriage for example ‘ there is not one in a hundred of either who is not taken in when they marry . |
| 15 | In an uncertain market and given the water flotation is already something of a lottery , that is a dangerous attitude to take . |
| 16 | now you see this is three inches to the mile and this is this is one to no that 's not one to a million , that 's ridiculous that is . |
| 17 | That 's not yours for a |
| 18 | Dessert is usually something like a biscuit or small piece of cake or rice pudding or pie and custard ( but dessert is not eaten every night ) . |
| 19 | Marx 's and Engels 's position is always something of a balancing act between idealism and crude or ‘ vulgar ’ materialism and this is nowhere better illustrated than in The German Ideology and the Theses on Feuerbach . |
| 20 | It is always something of a memorable sight to see that magnificent banqueting hall employed to its full capacity and that evening was no exception . |
| 21 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 22 | If we only allow ourselves plain text as input , the output is always something of a guess . |
| 23 | ’ It is always something of a shock to see black women , sharing equally ( and sometimes more than equally ) in the labor and strife of black people , expunged from the text when history becomes shaped into what we call tradition . |
| 24 | EVEN where , as in the case of the Chamber Orchestra of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama , previous experience has been auspicious , a student ensemble is always something of an unknown quantity . |
| 25 | Any problems within the platoon are dealt with ; my door is always open for a chat , and there is always someone with a problem . |
| 26 | So if you want to be noticed , and enjoy a more exclusive sense of well-being , there is still nothing like a Rolls . |
| 27 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 28 | Why restrict programmmes like this to what is still something of a ghetto channel ? |
| 29 | Just how the sperm triggers the explosive release of calcium in the egg is still something of a mystery . |
| 30 | Houston 's Pain Teens are a tad less psychotic than God Bullies but ‘ Born In Blood ’ , their third LP , is still something of a nightmare . |