Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 2 | Dr Browne has been something of a maverick in Irish politics even up to this present time . |
| 3 | Conservative ministers and many commentators claim that there has been something of a revolution in British politics in the 1980s . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources , natural beauty . |
| 7 | Bringing out reports on IT has been something of a growth industry . |
| 8 | In this country , the Basic Instinct furore has been something of a non-event . |
| 9 | At an outstanding elevation of 1000 feet , the Fat Lamb has had its fair share of battles with the elements , and its proprietors , Paul and Helen Bonsall , admit that the garden 's survival has been something of a minor miracle . |
| 10 | It has been something of a mystery how this move came about . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ There has been something of a buzz around . |
| 13 | Since the late 1970's there has been something of a boom in British Rail 's passenger services , with over 150 new stations having been opened and several new services developed . |
| 14 | Shaping the health care of around 900,000 people living in and around Glasgow has been something of a challenge . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Cameron , ‘ there has been plenty of thinking . |
| 16 | There has been plenty of advice on what to stock and , as he is still learning about what Sutton Coldfield customers may want , he has been happy to listen . |
| 17 | One form about which there has been plenty of discussion is the Supplementary Statistical Document , known as the intrastat . |
| 18 | Despite the reports of political violence and killing , there has been plenty of genuine electioneering . |
| 19 | I I there is no evidence that it 's an inherited or venereal problem and this is the , you know you we have there has been lots of sort of studies done to see which woman might be more at risk and which women , you know , might have symptoms and th , the fact is that the reason why you , why the menopause occurs is because the ovaries stop functioning , they stop producing oestrogen and every woman 's ovaries does this and they do it you know , at all varying ages the average age is fifty . |
| 20 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 21 | What the seller now has is something of immediate value — the undertaking of the buyer to pay a certain sum of money at a future date . |
| 22 | As I said , there 'd been plenty of women in Uncle Paul 's life . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What is needed are lots of lively wrigglers . ’ |
| 25 | All that is needed is plenty of recall , supplemented perhaps by some memory-tickling research . |
| 26 | Readers have suggested that it might have been more profitable to give more space to fewer sorts of vegetable , but that would have been something of a soft option . |
| 27 | Army food might once have been something of a joke , but certainly not any more . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In spite of his enthusiastic involvement in Wales , he must then have been something of an unknown quantity and it is possible that his role in the north was originally envisaged as that of one among equals . |
| 30 | ‘ You do n't put an empty box in a safe ; there must have been something in it when it was put there and the lavender sachet makes me think it must have been something of sentimental value . ’ |