Example sentences of "was [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | His death was nothing but an absurd , ludicrous accident . |
| 2 | This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her . |
| 3 | Next morning the whole village was nothing but an island in a lake of rain . |
| 4 | Even in terms of his own quite awesome power he was nothing but an underling in relation to his superior . |
| 5 | Steel City : from inside it was nothing but an overcrowded nexus of radials smelling of close-pressed bodies and metal and chemicals . |
| 6 | There was nothing but an old , rickety fence between the playground and the water . |
| 7 | The hand had the warmth of personal feeling , whereas the theatrical sigh with which she said her last words was nothing but an actressy trick from a bad radio play . |
| 8 | Sometimes her common sense still told her it was nothing but an invention for dirtying three times as many dishes , this business of frying and parboiling , and moving things from plate to plate . |
| 9 | AYRTON SENNA did all he could to keep the championship open by yesterday winning the Spanish Grand Prix which , after a week of accusations and exclusions , was something of an anti-climax . |
| 10 | It has not been so long since the average chartered or company secretary was something of an eminence grise , rather than being in the front-line . |
| 11 | Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them . |
| 12 | Richard Holmes was something of an expert at the game , but he ended up as a down-and-out by the end . |
| 13 | But the game was something of an anti-climax . |
| 14 | He replied that the older Czechs were wary of the idea of a unified Germany but , for the young , West Germany was something of an ideal whereas they despised the DDR . |
| 15 | I expect I would have gone anyway ; it was something of an event . ’ |
| 16 | But there was something of an occasion , even a ceremony , even a sacrament , in the way , on this evening , she set out the food and the vessels . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But as the venture was something of an experiment , and we might have to move south again before long , we decided to rent a house rather than buy one . |
| 19 | Cameroon was something of an exception in having a number of privately owned papers : L'Echo du Cameroun , Dialogue , Le Petit Camerounais and Les Nouvelles du Mungo . |
| 20 | But Qinghua was something of an exception , being China 's top technological university , with better facilities than other institutions and a high level of prestige . |
| 21 | Each , in his own way , was something of an expert , especially Mayhew and Abercrombie who also had solid rugby backgrounds . |
| 22 | Apparently he was something of an acrobat as well . |
| 23 | Britain was something of an exception , however , not only because of the slow development of the large corporation and mass-production techniques , but also because of the effects of a long-established , powerful and horizontally-structured trade union movement which opposed such firm-specific practices and internal labour market systems . |
| 24 | Bel-Hathor seemed an inauspicious choice ; like most Sapherian princes he was something of an eccentric . |
| 25 | Thus emboldened , Sotheby 's issued their 1 April catalogue to a chorus of disapproval , the most jolting being a letter from Toronto doctor Morton Shulman , who was something of an authority on Schlossmuseum Gotha , having acquired a seventeenth-century clock that had once belonged to the museum . |
| 26 | It was decorated with purple tulips , and it was hardly ever used , for Mrs Maugham was not unaware that it was something of an anachronism . |
| 27 | The Almighty was something of an embarrassment to the BBC of late , ever since He had ceased to be the exclusive property of the Church of England . |
| 28 | ‘ How did it get there ? ’ he insisted , keeping his voice low because he knew having babies was something of an embarrassment , like some diseases you did n't talk about . |
| 29 | ‘ The year 1967 was something of an annus mirabilis as far as liberal legislation in the sphere of sexual mores was concerned . ’ |
| 30 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |