Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a kind [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the best hotels they tended to view whisky as a kind of pastis and served it for drinking in the French way . |
| 2 | During the last fifty years the church musician as a kind of freelance ‘ general practitioner ’ has been increasingly replaced by those who derive their livelihood more as school music teachers than from their appointment as parish organists . |
| 3 | It is the symbolic violence of the teenager on the terraces , which spills over into the odd affray with visiting gangs that is more typical than the premeditated violence of disturbed or habitually aggressive individuals , who see football as a kind of arena for serious assault with little risk of arrest . |
| 4 | Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids . |
| 5 | In higher organisms one prime function of this system is the maintenance of consciousness as a kind of screen upon which both novel information and the background presentational continuum can be projected . |
| 6 | Now , the kind of dream that and we are very thirsty , and you want to go to the bathroom or something , is a dream whi which is the result of a kind of compromise . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you feeling better now , cara ? ’ he added , on that deeper , more gentle note which sent the small hairs on the nape of her neck into a kind of ecstasy of awareness . |
| 8 | Roland considered the pale incisive mouth with a kind of hopelessness . |
| 9 | It is that the probabilistic idea is in accord with a kind of empiricism . |
| 10 | The Castles on the Ground , as Richards called his slim ( 96-page ) volume is a gentle hymn to a kind of landscape , and way of life , virtually unique to England . |
| 11 | The expression on the assassin 's face changed : despair gave way to disbelief , and disbelief to a kind of terror , as though this fording was unthinkable , unbearable . |
| 12 | You know birds of prey ca n't fly over water so Israel 's part of a kind of funnel for them which makes it a great place to do bird counts . |
| 13 | Will they see this as largely superstitious — the invocation of a kind of magic ? |
| 14 | Irigaray goes further , exalting the metaphor of homosexuality as a kind of anti-difference into nothing less than a far-reaching theory of patriarchal society . |
| 15 | Of course , it is possible that the Warnock Committee saw the surrogacy issue as a kind of scapegoat , whose condemnation would allow for a certain measure of acceptance of other technological advances in reproduction , such as in vitro fertilization . |
| 16 | People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says , ‘ if you keep a lot of rules I 'll reward you , and if you do n't I 'll do the other thing . ’ |
| 17 | The tradition to which they belong evolved an accommodation of Christian doctrine to a body of teaching inherited from Greek philosophy about a kind of knowledge — noesis — which is neither intellectual nor sensual , but in essence experiential and manifested in the human soul . |
| 18 | In these two points of preservation of established religion and laws I may ( without vanity ) turn the reproach of my sufferings … into the honour of a kind of martyrdom . |
| 19 | It is possible that there is an undiscovered and unique set of equations that describes all the forces and particles in the universe in a kind of Theory of Everything that would do away with the Anthropic Principle . |
| 20 | The relationships that created a particular kind of community were real enough , but Warming resisted the temptation to regard the community as a kind of super-organism with a life of its own . |
| 21 | Some regard must be taken of the need for a kind of clarity and boldness , a clear differentiation between an object and its background , for example , which need not concern the artist working for adult readers . |
| 22 | Far from welcoming the new challenges and opportunities , many saw retirement as a kind of bogeyman who trailed in his wake the threats of a lower standard of living , boredom and impending old age . |
| 23 | I 'm more decisive , but I 'm also less confident because whereas before I used to hide my lack of confidence behind a kind of arrogance and bravado , now I 'm not afraid to show my weaknesses . |
| 24 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 25 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 26 | Although he might on one level enjoy his fame and success , his own tendency to withdraw from the world turned such fame into a kind of game which he was happy to play but which he did not take altogether seriously . |
| 27 | ‘ Now watch , ’ said the doctor , and suddenly the wire came out of the tube in a kind of loop and the doctor lassoed the polyp as if it were a steer . |
| 28 | To make certain board members responsible to workers and presumably others to suppliers , others to customers and others to the general public would change the board into a kind of parliament with members representing their various constituencies . |
| 29 | ‘ Evans , ’ said Cardiff in an awed voice , as the whispering multitudes took up his name as a kind of saviour 's anthem . |
| 30 | The patient places his arms on top of the ball , and is guided in a forward-backward rocking movement , using the ball as a kind of roller . |