Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And come to think of it , this is n't so dissimilar to the kind of influence your genetic father might wish to have on you , were it not for the fact that he is such a contemptible Essene , a cloistral nonentity capable of only the meanest interaction with his fellow men . |
| 2 | So the erm but as , but as Katherine reminds us , I mean if , if that 's the kind of life our emotional parameters are my , my guess is that that , is that that 's probably the truth , certainly a persuasive argument . |
| 3 | This was the kind of neutralisation which Soviet leaders could find attractive in Third World regions like Southeast Asia where the Western military presence considerably outweighed that of the USSR . |
| 4 | In consequence he became , in Liddie 's eyes , the kind of mother her own mother had been — one who disabled her by taking over . |
| 5 | Political correspondence often includes some pretty broad hints of the kind of recompense which local revenue officers may have expected from their offices . |
| 6 | In order to discern the reason for the use of to with the infinitive in passive sentences of the type just mentioned , we must begin therefore by trying to observe the kind of meaning which these sentences express and the type of context in which they are used . |
| 7 | In Vous les entendez ? ( 1972 ) , an art object is the topic of discussion : it becomes a kind of totem whose aesthetic value is upheld by a father and contested by his children . |
| 8 | The sundew was used in the making of tartan to produce a fine purple , but best known of all is ( Parmelia saxatilis ) , a kind of lichen whose Gaelic name has gained more popular currency among English-speakers in Scotland than the equivalent translation , stone parmelia . |
| 9 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |