Example sentences of "of a kind [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Says Boswell , ‘ He had his Tartan plaid thrown about him , a large blue bonnet with a knot of black riband like a cockade , a brown short coat of a kind of duffil [ thick-napped cloth ] , a Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes , a bluish philibeg , [ or filibeg , or kilt ] and Tartan hose . |
| 3 | There has been little discussion on the necessary degree of probability of a kind of damage occurring . |
| 4 | The ships plying the primary trade routes which joined the known continents and the outlying islands were all variations of a kind of carrack — a two-masted galleon , round-bottomed and broad-beamed , with lateen sails and elementary steering gear . |
| 5 | Fourthly , there is the satisfaction of a kind of orthodoxy , perhaps with respect to what is taken as somehow of the greatest significance or fundamentality . |
| 6 | I was conscious of a kind of pause between beginnings and endings . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had believed these strange people of the Other Side to be distant descendants of a kind of rodent ancestor . |
| 9 | One was a very nice garment made out of a kind of silk which Mother and I bought from the secondhand clothes lady who ran a stall in Barnard Castle . |
| 10 | Boden , 1977 ) To proceed in terms of a kind of model of this family of views , or many of them , what we can call functionalism shares with causalism the idea that mental episodes are to be understood relationally , in terms of their relations to other things . |
| 11 | The ability to understand the mistake made by another individual and the willingness to make the effort to correct it have been considered too much for non-human animals , because of the implication of intentionality of behaviour , and of a kind of consciousness . |
| 12 | They had nothing to drink , nothing to eat , they kind of hibernated and apparently they lapsed into a state of , of a kind of hibernation and inactivity , but they were still alive and they were alive when they , when they were pulled out fourteen days later . |
| 13 | All this , of course , could well be seen as an excessively constraining interpretation , smacking of a kind of behaviourist structure analysis common to well-developed traditions of curriculum development in the USA . |
| 14 | It is characteristic of a kind of hardness in the fable that on this one occasion when Gollum 's heart is stirred and he makes a gesture of penitence , Sam should wake up , misunderstand , and accuse Gollum of ‘ pawing ’ and ‘ sneaking ’ . |
| 15 | The relation between teachers and their pupils will change , and there are many who will regret the end of a kind of understanding and friendliness that can make teaching itself both easier and more rewarding . |
| 16 | Two other early libraries listed , the Bredon Reading Society and the Lady Zetland reading circle , are interesting examples of a kind of library which seems now to have vanished entirely . |
| 17 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 18 | The office culture consists of a kind of folklore involving ‘ the selective preservation of the ideas that have proved worthwhile ’ ( Shibutani , 1961:465 ) , in part about ‘ normal ’ cases and in part about the most ‘ difficult ’ problems and the ‘ worst ’ offenders . |
| 19 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Will they see this as largely superstitious — the invocation of a kind of magic ? |
| 22 | ( It gets definition of a kind by way of the firm rhetorical question : " If we do not get our conception of causal and other nomic connection from reality , where do we get it ? " ) |