Example sentences of "be [prep] [det] kind " in BNC.

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1 I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all .
2 And some dreams , I 'm not saying Katherine 's is , I 'm sure it is n't , but , but some people , some people 's anxiety dreams are of that kind .
3 The muscle fibres in the skeletal ( voluntary ) muscles of vertebrates ( the muscles , that is , that are concerned with locomotion ) are of several kinds .
4 These connections are of several kinds .
5 The results of a normal co-ordinate analysis are of several kinds .
6 Yeasts ( which are fungi ) are of this kind , and many bacteria .
7 Questions about adequate levels of safety on the roads or in factories , or about purity in foods are of this kind .
8 But evidently not all predicates are of this kind .
9 Beyond the page-turner are the real semi-literate books which are of another kind entirely .
10 Pierre Alexis , quite the finest trough in town and with an outstanding collection of runs if you 're into that kind of thing , as Gioachino is , quasi unquenchably .
11 Now if you want to decrease the frequency , say at evenings , and you wanted a twenty minute service , you can see that you 're in all kinds of muddle .
12 You 're in some kind of spiritual trouble .
13 If you 're in some kind of jam with the law , I might not get paid .
14 when Angela 's form , I mentioned that and the woman says if you 're in any kind of forces , you are exempt .
15 ‘ Well , I 've always been into all kinds of guitarists , ’ Guy explains .
16 A 1989 report from Washington , DC has just revealed that up to 23 per cent of young African-American men between the ages of 20 and 29 are under some kind of penal supervision .
17 But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly .
18 Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before .
19 If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter .
20 A big bream is a very deep-bodied fish and would have to stand almost tail to surface to pick a bait direct from the bottom with its lips , which I know they do when they are in that kind of mood .
21 Even though we do n't have major problems with drug or solvent abuse in Northern Ireland , sudden changes in behaviour could mean they are in some kind of trouble .
22 Most of the increase in illegitimate births has been to women who are in some kind of informal union , not living on their own holding the baby .
23 We are in some kind of indoor builder 's yard : bags of cement stacked against one wall , assorted timber against the other , and a concrete mixer , lathe , two power saws , and a battered van that looks welded to the floor .
24 To highlight the importance of giving practical help to people who are in any kind of need .
25 Ostracism , the easiest social solution , is inevitable : ‘ Those of us who are HIV+ are in another kind of concentrtion camp ’ .
26 On the other hand , the student 's difficulties may be of another kind : that his reading ability is poor and he has trouble in comprehending the work-card , for instance .
27 Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind .
28 The underlying pattern in modern societies may be of this kind too ( Becker 1981 ) .
29 Much teacher-training material currently being produced tends to be of this kind .
30 These may be of several kinds : point mutations involving protein coding genes or tRNA ( 5–9 ) , or more substantial deletion ( 10–12 ) or duplication type mutations ( 13 ) , localized by most studies in a highly specific single-strand zone during replication ( 14–16 ) .
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