Example sentences of "[prep] be [det] kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must of enlightened them on what the scriptures meant , by the sacred secret , cos before it must of been some kind of weird mystery to them |
| 2 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 3 | In the short story there does n't seem to be that kind of time — for the characters to digest and integrate the surprise into their lives . |
| 4 | Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal , and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers , and who had wanted to excavate round the stones . |
| 5 | ‘ Like I said , I enjoyed being with her , but you would have to be some kind of retard to get turned on in those scenes by thinking I am kissing a sex symbol … |
| 6 | There has got to be some kind of responsibility to deliver what they think they are buying . ’ |
| 7 | It has to be some kind of conspiracy . |
| 8 | There seemed to be some kind of a row going on upstairs . |
| 9 | That 's got to be some kind of a nutter . |
| 10 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |
| 11 | There has to be some kind of learning principle behind what they are asking . |
| 12 | When the body of one specimen was first brought from Australia to Britain in 1798 , it was considered to be some kind of taxidermist 's hoax — a mixture of bird and mammal — which , to some extent , it is . |
| 13 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
| 14 | Apparently , however , WABI has been turned into a product and packaged , and there is said to be some kind of cross-productisation afoot with parent company Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 15 | Dominant values are upheld and dominant interests protected in the name of universal interests — in the child care case , in the cause of child welfare , which is assumed to be some kind of objectively assessable ‘ good thing ’ . |
| 16 | " I would ask you to come here , " she said , " but there seems to be some kind of disturbance going on , and I do n't want to add to it . " |
| 17 | The snake makes it wriggle so that the apparently disembodied filament appears to be some kind of succulent worm . |
| 18 | Here we have a gang of unemployed white boys who imagine themselves to be some kind of local ruling class , and who feel outraged that this omnipotent position is being usurped by groups of black youth who are even more disadvantaged than they are . |
| 19 | In the Sixties — with Charlton , Law and Best at United , Greaves at Spurs , Marsh at Rangers , Moore , Hurst and Peters at West Ham — you had to be some kind of deranged flagellant to choose a team that had n't won a thing since the Coronation . |
| 20 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 21 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 22 | " Is this meant to be some kind of a threat ? " |
| 23 | It was meant to be some kind of joke . |
| 24 | It seemed to be some kind of ferry , because they were being poled across from one side of the canal to the other — while they remained standing , like people on a packed London bus . |
| 25 | Was that supposed to be some kind of sexual allusion ? |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose he made me out to be some kind of thief ! |
| 27 | In a very small voice , she said , ‘ Was that meant to be some kind of proposal ? |
| 28 | I can not afford to be some kind of armchair politician . |
| 29 | There was extensive second-degree smutting and several nasty blots of what appeared to be some kind of industrial lubricant . |
| 30 | Although I notice extensive second-degree smutting and several blots of what appears to be some kind of industrial lubricant . |