Example sentences of "[adj] kind [prep] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Alice was of an age when that kind of thing was a danger . |
| 2 | A classic example of this kind of study was the work of the Harvard statisticians Frederick Mosteller and David Wallace on the Federalist Papers . |
| 3 | The regular salaries attached to the more important posts in the customs and excise administration , for example , were in themselves attractive to many voters in Scottish constituencies , and were the objects of a great deal of political negotiation , for this kind of appointment was the normal currency of management for the politician able to procure it , and the links between parliamentary politics and the disposal of such offices made the nominal right of appointment possessed by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh somewhat illusory . |
| 4 | To Socrates , the only acceptable kind of literature was the fable — a straight-forward medium for conveying necessary truths . |
| 5 | Quite new kinds of research were opened up , so that whereas the static kind of classifying was a rather sterile tradition , Darwinism presented an attractive research programme . |