Example sentences of "kind of [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 He was against ‘ a very static kind of Wagner where the set is the concept ’ , to the neglect of intellectual excitement and engagement .
2 Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick .
3 In other words , farmers must know the results of the negotiations and must not be left to wonder in some kind of vacuum how the negotiations will affect their income .
4 Okay , so he was a porter , low man in the hierarchy , but this was the kind of time when the barriers went down and he did n't have to wear a label .
5 If they can not be protected by the law from this kind of material then the law should be tightened up .
6 ‘ Ours was the kind of business where the major assets walked out of the door each evening and went home .
7 Easy to defend , with its walls still existing , and the two rivers , and of course , with resources , with fuel and war effort , and the kind of buildings where the king could form a court .
8 Outdoors , on all kinds of surfaces where the lines can be abraded as they are dragged , in a range of temperatures and exposed to ultra-violet rays , and often made wet from dew in the grass , all the lab tests become suspect .
9 Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other .
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