Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall describe what seems to be common , though in the knowledge that any picture of such a complex and varied profession must necessarily be somewhat of a caricature . |
| 2 | Down below were lots of fishing boats and I decided to wait until they returned to the harbour . |
| 3 | So is none of them you read them then |
| 4 | The Roll of Kenilworth had indicated that there was no legitimate Deveril issue so was she of some bastard line ? |
| 5 | Inside was something of a disappointment . |
| 6 | Let's face it , there have already been plenty of situation comedies in this situation before . |
| 7 | Where the school maintains regular curriculum discussions , departmentally , in faculties , or throughout the entire staff , there will normally be plenty of opportunity to share experiences and raise questions . |
| 8 | There normally is plenty of wind and rain , but very little snow , owing to the moist , temperate Atlantic air streams . |
| 9 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The front row of a scrummage has always been something of a mystery to most rugby spectators , referees and even players . |
| 12 | A manufacturer of rich men 's toys , Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd had itself always been something of a rich man 's toy , owners like the mythical David Brown ( he of the DB4 and 5 ) underwriting the firm 's losses for sheer love of the marque . |
| 13 | The label ‘ social science ’ has always been something of a misnomer , because in addition to the obviously collective perspectives of economics , sociology , anthropology and politics , it also includes a concern with the individual , in particular in some branches of psychology . |
| 14 | Her friendship with Antonia apart , she had always been something of a loner and her peers now looked at her slightly askance . |
| 15 | To Branson , Chris Blackwell had always been something of a role-model — someone whose achievements were to be emulated , but also surpassed . |
| 16 | There had always been something of the fairground barker about Mr Broadhurst and during this period he enhanced it . |
| 17 | Rex had always been something of a ‘ leg man ’ and very much of a ‘ foot man ’ . |
| 18 | There 've always been plenty of kindly brother officers to bring it to my attention . |
| 19 | But research at Larksoken has always been somewhat of an anomaly . |
| 20 | SOME shock results on the first day of the French Olympic classes regatta at Hyeres yesterday showed that there could still be plenty of surprises to come in the race for British team selection . |
| 21 | It was thought that if the balls of soft paste were boiled , long enough to toughen the outer surface , but not for too long so that the inner remained soft , there would still be plenty of flavour left in the bait to serve its purpose , and sufficient toughness to make it extremely difficult for a smaller fish to take the bait in smaller portions . |
| 22 | If the ‘ hold ’ is set to give a safe idle , there should still be plenty of time to switch it off and recover even if you make a complete mess of things . |
| 23 | I was n't too keen — there would still be plenty of punters wandering about even at one o'clock in the morning . |
| 24 | There may still be something of a language barrier … but its clear the music knows no borders . |
| 25 | It will always be something of a gamble , because we are ‘ talking about a living animal with a mind of its own . |
| 26 | After an hour or so of drinking , these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages — a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty . |
| 27 | Alex always was something of a rebel at heart … |
| 28 | My dad always was something of a ham . |
| 29 | For those who prefer the familiar punchcard machine , there have also been plenty of advances and now we report on the latest of them , the Brother KH864 . |
| 30 | To be fair , there has also been something of a shift in the male mindset . |