Example sentences of "[noun] be something [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In looking back at the department 's achievements , one has to accept that reorganisation which Judy and Simon have already referred to , has because of its sheer scale and impact on N C V O been something of an abiding preoccupation over the past twelve to eighteen months . |
| 2 | If you refuse to buy it from Brazil , tropical timber , their exports are something in the region of between 3 to 5 percent of their . |
| 3 | In the United States , A.J. Foyt and Al Unser are something of national heroes as a result of their exploits in the world of Chevvys and Thunderbirds . |
| 4 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 5 | I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent . |
| 6 | I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent . |
| 7 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 8 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 9 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 10 | Of course , isolation is something to which the rural working population , particularly in the upland areas , has long been accustomed . |
| 11 | The string quartet on this EMI disc promises at first to be an effective and not unoriginal exercise in the expressionist tradition , but the end result is something of a disappointment . |
| 12 | From slang to puns to points of conflict , the end result is something like homeboy fashion meets voodoo charm and , back in ‘ 88 , the LA Times gave her a fitting nickname , ‘ East LA 's Ambassador Of Culture ’ . |
| 13 | A Music Hall sling from 1890s , introduced by the Irish comedians O'Connor and Brady , had probably first popularised the word : How it came to be adopted by , and applied to , youthful street gangs is something of a mystery . |
| 14 | The period of time just after you have attained all your goals is something of a danger period ; this is when many dieters lapse back into their old ways . |
| 15 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
| 16 | Indeed ‘ the whole piece is something of a dream ’ ( Hugo Young , The Guardian , 21 June 1988 ) , in which ‘ you could n't take a single thing seriously ’ ( according to Pearce ) because ‘ any resemblance between it and the world of 1988 is due to administrative oversight ’ ( Patrick Stoddart , The Sunday Times , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 17 | Jink-back is something like slipped-disc , I should say . |
| 18 | Multiprotocol is something of a misnomer — currently only TCP/IP and SNA are supported , although there is a promise to extend it to Open Systems Interconnection in the future . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , from brain to bowel is something of a comedown for the endogenous opiates . |
| 20 | Despite what are often called our petty differences , inward investment is something on which we all agree . |
| 21 | However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days . |
| 22 | The pressure exerted on that front foot when it is brought down in the bowling action is something like 10 times the bodyweight . |
| 23 | In particular , the ‘ state of the art ’ in the collection and processing of raw data by the Soviet Central Statistical Administration is something about which rather little is known . |
| 24 | ‘ The char is something like a salmon , ’ Mr Robinson said , but you find it in fresh water only . |
| 25 | Well their itinerary was something like er January the first Cologne . |
| 26 | Wyn Stewart and her husband , Peter are proof that the Club was something of a dating agency for its members . |
| 27 | His reply was something like ‘ No Leeds wont do much better than last year , when they won the title everyone had exceptional seasons and played above themselves , last year was a true reflection of how good they are … ’ . |
| 28 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 29 | It had obviously escaped them that their pun was something of a contradiction in terms ! |
| 30 | But Qinghua was something of an exception , being China 's top technological university , with better facilities than other institutions and a high level of prestige . |