Example sentences of "been [pron] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He styled himself ‘ gentleman ’ and his publications show him to have been something of a virtuoso , interested in the state of agriculture , industry , and the national economy . |
| 2 | In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources , natural beauty . |
| 3 | Teaching history and religious education to cockney teenagers must have been something of a culture shock , but Eva seems to have thrived on It , and the lively East End lads would have appreciated her outgoing personality and no nonsense approach . |
| 4 | Finding , therefore , the opportunity , marshalling the words with which to approach his lordship , had been something of a rite of passage for George . |
| 5 | He may have been something of a money-hunter , as his correspondence shows , but on the other hand he had a big family of relatives with a call on him . |
| 6 | It must have been something of a shock to her system . |
| 7 | Just before this , there had indeed been something of a re-enactment of 1963 , with demonstrations in the holy city of Qom ending in shooting ; processions elsewhere in sympathy with those killed ; and the imposition of martial law . |
| 8 | He seems to have returned briefly to Massachusetts , perhaps in connection with his property there , but was back in England by 1643 , in the service of the younger Sir Henry Vane [ q.v. ] , who as governor of the Bay colony at a precociously early age had been something of a fellow-traveller with the alleged heretics . |
| 9 | In this country , the Basic Instinct furore has been something of a non-event . |
| 10 | Nevertheless the proportion for whom payment was thought to have been something of a problem was 7 per cent of all those in old people 's homes ( 15 per cent for private ones , 6 per cent for others ) and 17 per cent of those in nursing homes — further differences which did not reach statistical significance . |
| 11 | Facings had been something of a nightmare then , a closed book of mysterious rites that led , finally , her teacher assured her , to the temple of tailoring . |
| 12 | Conservative ministers and many commentators claim that there has been something of a revolution in British politics in the 1980s . |
| 13 | There has been something of a revolution in raising standards of quality in a number of manufacturing firms by encouraging departments within a factory to operate almost as separate companies . |
| 14 | This may have been something of a rationalisation of his instinctive desires , but it was a perfectly defensible attitude . |
| 15 | To him the childhood wedding had been something of a charade during which each character had played a part , knowing that the coming together at the end — the whole story — was not to be taken seriously . |
| 16 | Musically , however , they have always been something of a mystery , flitting from style to style like a sort of rubbish Paul McCartney , cruising round different aspects of pop and soiling them . |
| 17 | The front row of a scrummage has always been something of a mystery to most rugby spectators , referees and even players . |
| 18 | It has been something of a mystery how this move came about . |
| 19 | Its very normality had been something of a novelty ! |
| 20 | Instead there has been something of a supermarket approach : according to the interests of the teacher a number of packages have been bought off the shelves and put in the course trolley . |
| 21 | The Patriots have been something of a business disaster for Kiam . |
| 22 | They 're being bred by farmer , Christopher Marler and this year , there 's been something of a baby boom . |
| 23 | Bringing out reports on IT has been something of a growth industry . |
| 24 | A bloc the West can do business with Eastern Europe has been something of a wasteland for EC investment but as Julian Bullard reports , all that is changing . |
| 25 | There had been something of a reproof in that letter , even though no word of it had been written openly . |
| 26 | Shaping the health care of around 900,000 people living in and around Glasgow has been something of a challenge . |
| 27 | To Branson , Chris Blackwell had always been something of a role-model — someone whose achievements were to be emulated , but also surpassed . |
| 28 | There were times when she must have been something of a pain to her superiors , but once again people were beginning to take note of her talents . |
| 29 | Her friendship with Antonia apart , she had always been something of a loner and her peers now looked at her slightly askance . |
| 30 | To be fair , there has also been something of a shift in the male mindset . |