Example sentences of "he [was/were] [pron] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember his name but he was something of a latecomer to the band . |
| 2 | He was something of a mystery , which intrigued the locals . |
| 3 | It was one of the weirdest graveyards he had seen — and he was something of a connoisseur . |
| 4 | He was something of a disappointment to his parents . |
| 5 | He was something of a chameleon , and readily produced pieces in the style of other maîtres , constantly adapting to the mercurial tastes of the post-Louis XVI period . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As an undergraduate he was something of a dandy , and even as a priest his appearance was remarkably trim . |
| 8 | He died in 1637 but it appears that for years he was something of a figure in the district . |
| 9 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 10 | ‘ But I think the way we played at Leeds he was something of a luxury sometimes — there were times when even his team mates did n't know what he woeld do next ’ ‘ It 's different at Scumchester United where they really do play through him — AND OF COURSE HE 'S ALSO SURROUNDED BY BETTER PLAYERS ’ … |
| 11 | He was something of an experimentalist , being particularly interested in glanders ( he claimed success in some cases from treatment with cantharides ) and in the circulatory system . |
| 12 | Apparently he was something of an acrobat as well . |
| 13 | Bel-Hathor seemed an inauspicious choice ; like most Sapherian princes he was something of an eccentric . |
| 14 | Unfortunately ( or perhaps fortunately ) he was nothing of the kind . |
| 15 | They were not , Hope observed , as Mrs Crump and Mrs Moore surrounded her with attention , the welled-up tears of spontaneous emotion — not if he was anything of a judge : there was something spare , almost dry , if the word could be excused , about the tears ; he noted their dryness carefully while , in mime show , semaphoring to Colonel Moore and Mr Crump ‘ the female of the species ’ and ‘ over-sensibility ’ and ‘ poor child ’ and ‘ let the ladies resolve it but although we are men of the world we too are not unmoved by the finer shades of feeling , especially for those fallen on life 's remorseless battlefield . ’ |