Example sentences of "be a kind [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All magazines and newspapers are a kind of conjuring trick — they put a gloss of coherence upon chaos . |
| 2 | He felt himself to be a kind of recording angel ; it seemed necessary that someone should see all this who was aware of its sinfulness , of its stench in the nostrils of God . |
| 3 | It would have to be a kind of waking sleep . |
| 4 | They were a kind of enabling powers — you could set up circumstances that would fit either . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a kind of travelling fellowship , really . |
| 6 | which one identifies , there 's a kind of feeling erm you know , we 're , we 're the members and there 's something special about us and er at the best we 're sorry for the non-members , we 'd like to have more of them and so we might proselytize and preach the gospel , you know you know throw away your idioms , become or in the worst possible way we might be an exclusive group and say we are , we are erm special , we are we , we know the truth and everybody else is infidels and you know they should be killed or driven out or or in some ways discriminated against because they 're wrong and we 're right . |
| 7 | Seen in this light , restoration is a kind of patching up of iconographical clothing , as valid for the grand vestments of the Old Masters as for the everyday wear of modern art . |
| 8 | I would like to say that in these days of environmental awareness and so on , that is a kind of harking back to times when there was a mid-winter feast |
| 9 | Well , there is a kind of waiting process here , that is in political life particularly , some people are more important than others in their political views and opinions and certainly depending on the nature of the society . |
| 10 | It is a kind of brainwashing , because underneath the ad for the chocolate is another kind of message , saying you must be slim , heterosexual , white ; you have to be a certain class , have money . |
| 11 | And it passes through elements in a cell called and as it passes through a the genetic information on the on the R N A D N A is read off and proteins are produced , so the is a kind of read head which reads out the genetic information . |
| 12 | In any event , that strange sound that has lately been emanating from the American scientific community is a kind of purring . |
| 13 | Certainly simulation by shifting to other viewpoints is a kind of analogizing the active kind which makes myself like instead of recognizing as alike . |
| 14 | Otherwise she had lived in privacy , which was a kind of speaking silence . |
| 15 | The following quotation comes from Engels ' Preface to the first ( 1884 ) edition of The Origin of the Family , which was a kind of rewrite , in precis , of Morgan 's Ancient Society ( 1877 ) : |