Example sentences of "something of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you believe that the Eighties are something of a tribute to the independent trustee system , then it 's a pity that this centralisation is developing . |
| 2 | Moreover the recording itself stands as something of a tribute to his long relationship with another French institution , the Opéra de Lyon , which he has conducted frequently since his début there in the same opera in 1981 . |
| 3 | But seriously , there is something of a revival just like everywhere else at the moment , although blues has always had a strong following in Australia — that 's why I 've been able to make a living all these years . |
| 4 | Tylor 's work which , especially in the field of religion , is currently enjoying something of a revival , displays further and more explicitly recognized examples of this functionalist way of understanding society . |
| 5 | The formation of a company of clothworkers in 1601 suggests not only something of a revival but equally a closing of ranks in the face of adversity . |
| 6 | In the immediate pre-war years , as working-class protest resumed , the parties created by the revolutionary intelligentsia enjoyed something of a revival . |
| 7 | We may now be seeing something of a revival of the reformative approach . |
| 8 | They can not match our record of ten defeats in a row , having staged something of a revival with three straight victories . |
| 9 | Mr Sisulu , now 77 , was six years older than Mr Mandela and became something of a mentor to him on his arrival in Johannesburg in 1941 . |
| 10 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 11 | Hereford are suffering something of a flu epedemic at the moment . |
| 12 | By the late nineteenth century there were two main groups of Welsh cattle : the short-legged , heavy , compact Anglesey mountain cattle of the north and the taller , longer-bodied , larger and rangier Pembroke types of the south ( including the Castlemartin and Dewsland breeds ) which had something of a tendency towards the dairy type but which fattened well enough in due course . |
| 13 | ‘ Anybody who would hire a waitress without an ounce of experience must be something of a saint , ’ Charity agreed . |
| 14 | In any case , I recall things reaching something of a climax one grey and drizzly afternoon when I was in the billiard room attending to Lord Darlington 's sporting trophies . |
| 15 | Something of a row broke out with an awkward commuter . |
| 16 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 17 | Mister C is something of a godsend for the British press . |
| 18 | So I was something of a godsend for her . |
| 19 | Richard Harris , according to Heston , was ‘ something of a fuck-up ’ , but conceded , ‘ However , if he was a fuck-up , I was a hard-nosed son of a bitch . ’ |
| 20 | Something of a character , too . |
| 21 | For those used to conventional interiors with basic seating and flat metal instrument panels , there will be something of a culture shock . |
| 22 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ It was something of a culture shock when I first went down there . |
| 25 | Her ‘ young ’ girls and sometimes ‘ young ’ men are aged between 65 and 99 and they look forward very much to her weekly class which she describes as something of a frolic ! |
| 26 | ‘ Er , well , I 've nowhere to go and it 's causing me something of a problem . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The room you 've got at the Palace Hotel is causing something of a problem , ’ she informed me . |
| 28 | Rolls-Royce 's model cycle of 15-plus years also posed something of a problem when it came to deciding tactics with the new car . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mrs Curdle 's annual bunch of flowers constituted something of a problem in the doctor 's house , for they were artificial and lasted for ever . |