Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [adj] kind of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need now to consider the question of the nature of pedagogic research , how it differs from other kinds of research activity , and what implications arise from such considerations for the education of teachers . |
| 2 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ It looks like some kind of begging-letter . |
| 4 | Normally , these bubbles ( or vesicles ) are only a few millimetres across and quite thinly scattered , but sometimes , if the lava has been particularly gas rich , the rock is so honeycombed with large bubbles that it looks like some kinds of Swiss cheese ; more holes than solid . |
| 5 | Then there was always the harvest home dance , and then the school , that was the only place we had to dance in that day and they had it decorated with various kinds of the the the c corn dollies and erm |
| 6 | But it 's rare and it depends on all kinds of things — like how mature you both are , how much experience of relationships you have and how well you could cope with time spent apart . |
| 7 | And someone buying it looking for that kind of book could justifiably feel they were being sold short . |
| 8 | Economic prosperity and satisfaction led many , perhaps , to look rather benignly upon Hallstein 's activist Commission and not to be unduly worried by the possibility of it developing into some kind of European government . |
| 9 | A simple illustration may help to clarify the concept : it distinguishes between two kinds of " boos " , or attempts to frighten someone . |
| 10 | So it started in that kind of fashion really . |
| 11 | I have suggested that it enters into some kind of relationship with words and contexts . |
| 12 | Is it endowed with some kind of abstract , almost Platonic existence , or is it seen in terms of its social context ? |
| 13 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 14 | As soon as you got that thing off of the runway or a hard surface , it sunk without any kind of a , in the English mud . |
| 15 | It sounded like some kind of ritual in the way the Oak said it and the other Trees bowed their heads in acknowledgement . |