Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be [indef pn] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Army food might once have been something of a joke , but certainly not any more . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now Buxtehude is something of a Mecca for other traffic planners paying tribute to what has been achieved and taking the Verkehrsberuhigung message back to their own communities . |
| 4 | In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources , natural beauty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Erm By that time I mean the there had been lots of problems in other cities . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure there have been plenty of men since , ’ he said , considerably piqued . |