Example sentences of "[be] [art] kind of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two autobiographies , that is to say , are the kind of book to which a tradition of literary interpretation has been inimical , imagining for itself a literature of impersonality , in which autobiography is subsumed , invisible . |
| 2 | It made her head ache and there had been a kind of knot in her stomach ever since her nephew had made his absurd announcement . |
| 3 | There has been a kind of stalemate in the class struggle which has placed governments in the position of tackling deep-rooted problems with technocratic instruments of strictly limited effectiveness : they have held the line on the balance of payments by means of periodic deflation , which has not really solved anything ; they have periodically checked inflation and attempted to rebuild industrial profitability by means of ad hoc incomes policy but have been unable either to maintain popular support for such policies or to push forward to a comprehensive planning of prices and incomes , investment and consumption . |
| 4 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 5 | The complex , idiosyncratic procedures which result are a kind of betrayal of empiricist method . |
| 6 | Had there ever been a a feeling amongst the members of the lodge that erm that with this in increasing involvement with outsid outsiders , the local M Ps , the ministers of religion , the er Transport and General Workers ' Union , et cetera , as well as coverage by H T V and the B B C that there would be a kind of accumulation of pressure and you would they would give in ? |
| 7 | The semantic theories argue that the description just given is realized in and enforced by the very vocabulary of law , so that it would be a kind of self-contradiction for someone to claim that the law provides right s beyond those established through mechanisms sanctioned by convention . |
| 8 | The result would be a kind of consensus of truth , a fully democratic method of discovering what was useful , what actually worked , and thus what was true . |
| 9 | I was made uneasy by those parading men in smart suits and dark glasses , who appeared to be a kind of confraternity of Falangists , ardent nationalists and supporters of Franco , whose picture was everywhere . |
| 10 | So as a small token of appreciation , I just have two books or two copies of the same book which I would like to hand to your president and to your general secretary as a token of appreciation and it 's the authorized biography of Nelson Mandela of whom we are all very proud , considering what he has suffered through and what he has done and we hope that this little token will be a kind of memento for all your support but by doing this I 'm not saying that your support is over because the struggle continues . |
| 11 | I 'm thinking now in particular of Plato 's four so if that particular inclination to be , I du n no , poetical or philosopher , then that would be a kind of individuation of us . |
| 12 | It can not be better public relations , so it must be a kind of code of conduct to steer you away from base instincts . |
| 13 | What were the kind of conditions of the people who w who went back in , did they go in bec because of they had , erm say large families or something like that and they had difficulty trying to make ends meet ? |
| 14 | The one position he or she should avoid is of being a kind of co-conspirator with the politician against the legitimate interests of the audience and that , it has seemed to me lately , is an increasingly easy trap to fall into . |
| 15 | That is the kind of occasion on which the advance man has to think fast , make a decision and ‘ manage ’ it through . |
| 16 | It is the kind of system with which experts can quickly get to grips but it is also targeted at non-technical authors , enabling them to quickly edit text , sound and images either to create multimedia presentations or to produce interactive multimedia applications . |
| 17 | This is the kind of remark on which the media thrive , and for weeks afterwards the newspapers , radio and television were filled with arguments and counter-arguments about essential books in a core curriculum . |
| 18 | His motive is the kind of pleasure for himself ( or pain avoided ) at which he was ultimately aiming . |
| 19 | This is the kind of frame from which Dorothy Heathcote often ( increasingly ) wants children to work , and this is why it often seems to be the case in her work that the pupils are not in role at all — they are merely required to look at something from a particular scientific perspective . |
| 20 | Although the above example is a relatively trivial one , it is the kind of image of our imprecise and variable relationship with crime and conformity that I wish to portray in postclassical criminology . |
| 21 | This is the kind of matter upon which historians will forever disagree , but it may be that Swegen did have his position in Denmark threatened by Swedes and Slavs at some time in the 990s . |
| 22 | That is the kind of consequence to which Labour Members are characteristically blind , as they are blind in their continued support for the national statutory minimum wage . |
| 23 | Second , and more substantial , there is the kind of objection to proposals linked to an Alternative Economic Strategy which has been raised by Cutler et al . |
| 24 | Who 's the kind of person with ! |
| 25 | Just the men , what 's the kind of proportion of women to men in the factory ? |
| 26 | yes , that seems reasonable what 's the kind of remit of their presentation going to be are they going to look at problems which arise or |
| 27 | Tt and I think we 've identified in a number of different factors erm er behind that , that trend and that erm i in a sense there 's , there 's the kind of distinction between the ideological approach and the pragmatic approach in that we , we 've seen there is a , I think a , a broad ideological impetus behind the reform in the sense that there is this long-term commitment to overthrowing feudalism . |
| 28 | Despite there being no mention on the sleevenotes , it 's the kind of album on which one can sense the contribution of MTV and American radio programmers retained as ‘ production consultants ’ . |
| 29 | What 's the kind of age of folk in your section ? |
| 30 | That 's a kind of law of the form of movement of planets . |