Example sentences of "of a kind [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a difficulty with Jenny , of a kind that came with the innocent of the previous novel . |
| 2 | Nevertheless a togetherness is apparent , of a kind that characterises colluders — or friends — rather than collaborators . |
| 3 | Did you have any experience of a kind that helped you before you came to drama school ? |
| 4 | Adult classes , in fact , require exceptionally good teaching , of a kind that may be remote from the professional ideals of many presentday academics . |
| 5 | They share the conventional wisdom of the nuclear lobby that what has stopped America 's nuclear industry in its tracks is what the NES calls an ‘ impossibly cumbersome nuclear licensing process ’ — of a kind that pro-nuclear countries like France do not allow . |
| 6 | A senior academic was arrested ‘ for carrying unsigned tracts ’ of a kind that had been circulating throughout the city for a month . |
| 7 | According to the outgoing editor , Mr Peter Stanford , she also has glamour of a kind that has rarely been seen in the paper 's musty offices . |
| 8 | If ‘ life ’ is defined broadly ; perhaps , as we suggested earlier , as any kind of chemical system that can evolve adaptively , then it is possible to envisage life of a kind that does not involve water . |
| 9 | Finally , humans create habitats of a kind that may well occur in nature , but not commonly . |
| 10 | If those other components are themselves of a kind that , for example , influences the Earth 's supply of radiation , then we see that positively minute additions , at least of some kinds of pollutants , could have profound consequences for living things . |
| 11 | The world has invented many industrial processes which often create pollutants of a kind that do not occur in nature at all . |
| 12 | There were in this dingy , badly heated studio , moments of rare artistic quality of a kind that occurs but rarely in a century ’ . |
| 13 | But clearly some immoralities may be of a kind that no government has authority to commit . |
| 14 | There are few public meetings now and fewer serious discussions in pamphlets , or even books , of a kind that would have made sense to a novelist like Disraeli , or a scholar like Gladstone , to both of whom the idea of a ‘ speech writer ’ or of an advertising agency to identify the issues would have been absurd . |
| 15 | This system is better than the absolute waste of pulping , but it leads to major breakdowns of a kind that the private libraries would not have allowed under any circumstances . |
| 16 | The Eddie Aikau denoted a big-wave contest of a kind that could only be held in Hawaii . |
| 17 | by distracting the teachers from issues of the quality of delivery to administrative , bureaucratic issues , with priority given to meetings , form-filling and planning of a kind that fails to impact on the quality of the classroom . |
| 18 | A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west . |
| 19 | Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow . |
| 20 | In addition to the competing 23 national ( plus Barbarian ) teams having an appropriate will to win , there exuded a true rugby camaraderie from amongst the players of a kind that other global rugby events have failed to match . |
| 21 | Brideshead , too , is an exercise in passionate nostalgia , and of a kind that has sometimes been held to be embarrassing , since it celebrates the dying life of a great country house , though such critical embarrassments may be more ritual than real . |
| 22 | Work like this requires continuing enthusiasm of a kind that may not outlast the departure of the original members , and their replacement with new people . |
| 23 | Thus his/her students will probably receive from him/her no feedback of a kind that might help them learn from his/her response to their work . |
| 24 | More recently , controversy was provoked by Jesus the Magician , in which Dr Morton Smith depicts his protagonist as a typical wonder-worker of the age , a figure of a kind that thronged the Middle East at the beginning of the Christian era . |
| 25 | There was also , she vaguely noted , in one corner a piano , and the windows had shutters of a kind that she had never seen in England . |
| 26 | These impressions are not of a kind that occur in our daily life . |
| 27 | By offering skilled help of a kind that teachers recognized and respected , it was hoped the MRO would prove to be an agent of change , and would work in co.operation with the librarian to develop imaginative resources use and high quality practices . |
| 28 | Finally , there are those subjects — like English , history and philosophy — which provide critical intellectual training of a kind that will prove invaluable , whatever you choose to do with the rest of your life . |
| 29 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 30 | The Sicilian tyrants also look backwards to the archaic age of mainland Greece : Gelon 's appeal to the Syracusan populace is demagogy of a kind that recalls Pisistratus , as does Dionysius ' demand for a bodyguard . |