Example sentences of "[art] kind of [noun] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally he falls into a kind of torpor where he wo n't speak or even acknowledge that anyone is there . ’ |
| 2 | A kind of midwife if you like . ’ |
| 3 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 4 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 5 | He sat down and watched her , fascinated , as she put the bread to her mouth , her eyes closing in a kind of ecstasy when she bit into it . |
| 6 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 7 | The flurry is caused by the arrival of an old car , of a type that retains a kind of dignity as it ages . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a kind of torture because it reminded me of how you made love . ’ |
| 9 | You could almost say there 's a kind of rule that says you ought to write in fairly free verse nowadays and that you 're making a kind of statement if you do n't . |