Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am one in a row of specimens . |
| 2 | You will see I am something of a democrat . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't mind telling you , I am something of an expert at swimming myself , and I know some smashing spots for a jolly good sssplash up . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am nothing of the sort ! |
| 5 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 6 | How dare you lay claim to me , as if I am yours for the taking ? ’ |
| 7 | I still do n't believe in God but now I 'm something of a cross between a Buddhist and a Quaker with pantheist leanings . ’ |
| 8 | With the Ellis family finances being in a perpetual state of crisis , I 'm something of an expert in the subject of raising an overdraft . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm nothing but a small-time gangster 's moll . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm nothing but a nuisance to you . |
| 12 | But no one here has treated me as though I were anything but a permanent staff member , so do n't have any worries on that score . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ For many years people thought I was something of a rebel or a madman , ’ Annesley recalled . |
| 14 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 15 | I was something of a child prodigy . |
| 16 | So I was something of a godsend for her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 19 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 20 | Is my hon. Friend aware that in my constituency the majority of people infinitely prefer the council tax to Labour 's alternative — the so-called fair rates , which are nothing but a return to the dreaded rating system that we had before , and which was especially hated in the south of England ? |
| 21 | Now that means that at the peak , the Communist Party has a working class membership of something like thirty thousand plus , which is one in every hundred industrial workers in China at this time . |
| 22 | Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got . |
| 23 | It 's perhaps worth pointing out that for some inexplicable reason , BMG has decided not to provide individual tracks for each of the movements which is something of a disadvantage in a work like the Webern . |
| 24 | The search for such a planet has proved unsuccessful — which is something of a mystery , because a planet of that size should be reasonably easy to find . |
| 25 | Since this does not exist , the next best , in a UNIX environment , is the troff style of embedded mark-up , which is something of a de facto UNIX standard . |
| 26 | Universally used , especially at planting time — which is something of a hoot , as it needs a long and involved bacterial breakdown process for the phosphate to become available for plant uptake . |
| 27 | In spite of the unlikeness of Kant 's approach and that of utilitarianism , one of the foremost moral philosophers of our time , R.M. Hare , has developed a moral philosophy which is something of a synthesis of them . |
| 28 | I have done hardly any work , except keep this Diary up to date for a week , which is something of a record for me ! |
| 29 | And there 's a bit of rheumatism in my right shoulder and arm which is something of a nuisance . |
| 30 | The chap would have been sitting there motionless with nobody drawing him which is something of a waste of time . ’ |