Example sentences of "it [was/were] a kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were a kind of metal cylinder . |
| 2 | It was a kind of public dethroning of King Coal . |
| 3 | Those days Rose dreaded and fretted through and it was a kind of peace to turn to the two girls and the boy . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a kind of choice between saving his own and saving the Cossacks . |
| 5 | It was a kind of lifestyle I knew nothing about , having always lived in South Kensington . |
| 6 | It was a kind thought . |
| 7 | She thought it was a kind of prison . |
| 8 | It was a kind of illness , in the head . ’ |
| 9 | The church became the subject of incredulous and not necessarily friendly discussion , but it was a kind of publicity from which the church came to gain recruits . |
| 10 | Around the same time , I entered this competition — it was a kind of beauty competition , although it did n't describe itself in that way . |
| 11 | It was a kind of obligation to those organisations such as Ultra and other secret sources which supplied the highly sensitive and closely guarded intelligence required for an operation by the S.A.S. to be mounted at all . ’ |
| 12 | It was a kind of masterpiece , one of the cleverest , most complete , things she 'd ever done . |
| 13 | It was a kind thought of the lass , and there 'll be no more said about it ! ’ |
| 14 | Writing was a sign of the Fall , it was a kind of punishment ; Dolle was still living in the Garden of Eden or at least the Sugar Bar . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a kind of flippant remark , but I would not call David it . |
| 16 | It was believed in Kenya that when a Masai came to work for you it was a kind of accolade . |
| 17 | It was a kind of tyranny . |
| 18 | ‘ At that time , the Japanese economy was very bad , we did n't have money and it was a kind of dream that we would be able to spend a couple of years outside Japan . ’ |
| 19 | And not a few thought it was a kind of desecration to use a voice like that in uttering such common words : |
| 20 | From that time , he made it his ambition to become ‘ another Jack Johnson ’ , as he told me : ‘ It was a kind of inspiration to me as I was the only black kid in the area . |
| 21 | I think it was a kind of defence mechanism , my way of warding off those waves of sadness . |
| 22 | Historically , people appear to have been more philosophical about inability to conceive and bear a child , and most childless people did not question themselves about it , unless they felt it was a kind of punishment . |
| 23 | Rather , it was a kind of backdrop to everyday life . |
| 24 | In a way , I think it was a kind of pride that did it . |
| 25 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 26 | It was a kind of loop and roll that dodged the pursuing aircraft and brought you up behind it . |
| 27 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 28 | It was a kind of exercise , like a perpetual crossword , rather more rewarding . |
| 29 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 30 | It was a kind of verbal display ; listening , she was disconcertingly reminded of a bird idly preening , limbering up with bursts of song , stretching a wing … |