Example sentences of "kind of [adj] [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in the afternoon , a porter came along with a creaking trolley carrying a coffee urn and snackstuffs , and everyone stirred to a kind of frisky wakefulness and examined the fare keenly . |
| 2 | this has inaugurated a new kind of critical atmosphere and has been gathering conviction at the institutional and managerial level just as much as in the studios and in the discussions around art . |
| 3 | Logically , they can not exist separately : all knowledge involves some kind of mental processing and exists in a cultural context ; all cultures are conceptualized in terms of knowledge and involve abilities and skills ; all development has a content and a context . |
| 4 | Andrew Burton Sculptures Open Air Sculpture Court , Municipal Art Gallery , Middlesbrough ( Until May 16 ) THERE was a time when I thought that Chris Sell , from Sunderland , had achieved the ultimate distinction , by taking the elephant as a kind of second signature and making it strictly his own . |
| 5 | The more advanced monkeys or apes do not have any kind of protective armour and use brain rather than brawn to solve their problems , but the slow-moving little relative of the bushbabies known as Bosman 's potto does have a secret defence rather like the hero shrew 's . |
| 6 | Here she was ‘ so Irish ’ , a kind of veiled racism or compliment : it depended on her mood or the person saying it how she took it . |
| 7 | Dropping litter might also be linked with the kind of ceremonial spitting and pee-ing that is a demonstration of claim of territory ( old men sitting on bench at village square or park etc. seem to spit a lot/ the marvellous wide-astride attitude of the countryside pee-er claiming that bit of ground as his for that glorious moment — I am aware it 's different for ladies , but maybe the same mentally , given that fright of discovering be removed ! ) . |
| 8 | In it she has provided a life-size cast of a cow with a kind of knitted suit and populated a wheat field with mannequins sporting space suits . |
| 9 | He whirled round , stood in a kind of ape-like crouch and started to swing his arms in front of him . |