Example sentences of "a kind of [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , looking back , a kind of holiday at times . ’ |
| 2 | His orcs use a kind of gunpowder at Helm 's Deep ( II , 142 ) ; thirty pages later the Ents meet at Isengard , or ‘ Irontown ’ , a kind of napalm — perhaps one should say with closer reference to Tolkien 's own experience , a Flammenwerfer . |
| 3 | She saw his fear , his bewilderment , and above all , a kind of astonishment at the enormity of the complications that lay ahead . |
| 4 | Inside the single-storey building a leathery-faced , middle-aged white woman hacked with a kind of parang at branches of flame trees which had worked their way through the open windows . |
| 5 | Its head was down and its back sloped up into a kind of point at the rear . |
| 6 | That was in The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit , whose title became a kind of cat-call at the conforming commuter who sacrificed his integrity for a safe income and suburban comfort . |
| 7 | His back was horribly deformed and rose into a kind of hump at the base of the spine . |
| 8 | There is a kind of ventriloquy at work in Allegories of Reading . |
| 9 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 10 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 11 | Like y'know we we 've mentioned organisational structure I think in the very first lecture er that idea , the idea that you 've got a kind of box at the top labelled president and you 've got two boxes underneath labelled vice president and you 've got y'know one box goes off to sales manager y'know the sort of thing I mean , okay ? |
| 12 | There is a kind of insularity at Lochranza cut off from the Corrie side by the great glens and hills of Sannox and on the other side by the long wild uninhabited coastal stretch to Catacol . |