Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I 'm not suggesting that these groups , if they come together and mix will cause problems , I 'm suggesting that if there is only one kind of person that 's attracted to a particular site and that type of person happens to be socially irresponsible , then then you 're it 's a recipe for disaster , is n't it ? |
| 2 | I see no reason to deny … that behaviour is only one kind of evidence , sometimes not the best , and surely no criterion for knowledge . |
| 3 | This line of thinking presupposes that there is only one kind of power . |
| 4 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 5 | It is not that kind of explanation and dependence that is in question with causation . |
| 6 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 7 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 8 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 9 | ‘ What I 'm aiming at , ’ says Howard , ‘ is not some kind of thing where everybody is , you know , just sort of happy and sort of contented sort of thing all the time … ’ |
| 10 | This is just one kind of learning which can go on inside a robot 's workings . |
| 11 | The evidence that there is just one kind of cell which generates all the blood cell types — a multipotential stem cell — comes from destroying the stem cells of mice and then replacing them with just stem cells . |
| 12 | It is just another kind of sieve . |
| 13 | At the other extreme , the Christian is not at liberty to base his view of crime and punishment on the pre-supposition that all crime is just another kind of sickness , and just as capable of cure . |
| 14 | Yet it is just this kind of assumption , unsupported by any fieldwork , that is responsible for the proposal for the further Directive . |
| 15 | Their name derives from the most formal way of saying ‘ you ’ in Japanese , the implication being that there is always some kind of barrier between people . |
| 16 | well — there is still some kind of hope ( NOT ! i guess ) — but i still ca n't see why he was not even given at least a whole second-half this season . |
| 17 | It is possibly this kind of teaching which is most likely to lead to situations such as those found in the Nottingham reading study ( Lunzer and Gardner , 1979 ) , where secondary-school children could explain how to use a contents page or an index perfectly well , but when observed in their work , did not actually use these things much at all . |
| 18 | Matins has almost wholly disappeared and its substitute in Anglican worship is often some kind of family service , common also in the Free Churches , and generally of the ‘ hymn-sandwich ’ variety . |
| 19 | ‘ Is today some kind of holiday ? ’ she asks sensibly . |
| 20 | There is n't one kind of happiness , there 's all kinds . |
| 21 | ‘ This is n't that kind of flatty . ’ |
| 22 | Forget it , he is n't that kind of man . |
| 23 | To which Mary Deare replied in a low voice , ‘ It is n't that kind of pain , and then cried out with terrible conviction — Wendy , you are wrong about mothers . |
| 24 | But ( unlike the Tories ) it is n't that kind of outfit . |
| 25 | ‘ Refusing to consider my offer is n't some kind of revenge for what I said in Adelaide ? ’ he asked guardedly . |
| 26 | What 's the , what 's , w why is n't this kind of process easy ? |
| 27 | First , to show that the means-end rationality which has come to dominate the thought of modern man as the form of rationality is simply one kind of rationality . |
| 28 | A community is simply one kind of group in which membership is based on locality |
| 29 | The ‘ Moral Majority ’ in the United States is precisely that kind of quest for security . |
| 30 | Yet it is precisely that kind of issue that the coalition would like addressed in a coherent and collaborative fashion . |