Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] a kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 2 | In a strange way , if you forgot what it really was , perhaps never knew , here was a kind of trusting innocence that would have found favour with the non-scientific crew of Titron . |
| 3 | The preaching of the Wesleyan Morley Punshon in the 1850s was described as follows : ‘ After the text was announced there was a kind of subdued rustling and expectancy … |
| 4 | At the foot of it there was a kind of dent in the stonework where she could crouch in behind the cloth , almost hidden . |
| 5 | This too was a kind of taxation , an institutionalised imposition ( in cash , bullion , and kind ) by the king on the lay and ecclesiastical elite . |