Example sentences of "[art] kind of [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parsons became a kind of spokesman for a generation , within the music press at least . |
| 2 | These shimmering fables , in which an ageing heroine , a ‘ sweet Shura ’ or a Zhenechka , guards her faded mementos and sharp , unfinished memories in defiance of history , help us to understand , perhaps , the drive behind the current , terrifyingly fearless race towards 19th-century-style capitalism : that it is not only a hunger for consumer goods , but a kind of nostalgia for a glamour all the more potent because few now remember it . |
| 3 | I 'll tell you what else you can do ; you can make half a dozen or so of those currant buns of yours and take them with you on Saturday as a kind of present for the lady . ’ |
| 4 | Consider it as a kind of insurance for the odd times when you are not losing weight quite as you should . |
| 5 | Group leader Jazzie B is a kind of Ellington for the '90s , deploying a range of different vocalists with elements drawn from reggae , hip-hop and American soul . |
| 6 | We can use 600 as a kind of benchmark for a game , and express all |
| 7 | We can use 600 as a kind of benchmark for a game , and express all scores as a percentage of this benchmark . |
| 8 | Thus the statement that That 's a dog entails That 's an animal can be viewed as a kind of shorthand for a pattern of normality like the following : |
| 9 | There is even a kind of envy for the depth of vision which this fate is thought to produce . |
| 10 | John Lahr made the point to me that Ken became a kind of scapegoat for the problems of the play . |
| 11 | Crippled as he was from many falls , only lately taking their toll , he found in the lawn mower a kind of substitute for the experiences of earlier , dangerous days . |