Example sentences of "[adv] [det] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very next year ( 1590 ) he provided music for the pastoral interludes of Tasso 's Aminta and two other pastorals which was in an ‘ altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ’ , presumably some kind of recitative . |
| 2 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 3 | First , as Mercer and Julien remind us , such an equivalence tends to obscure exactly those differences which need to be addressed if we are to understand not only each kind of discrimination separately but also their interconnections ( ‘ Race , Sexuality and Black Masculinity ’ , 99 — 100 ) . |
| 4 | The new show is very much that kind of format , except I wo n't be doing any vicars or skinheads . |
| 5 | It 's not it 's not actually in here but I 've got erm perhaps that kind of colour |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps that kind of thing runs in families — in the blood . ’ |
| 7 | His father was a public relations man for Dr Barnardo 's Homes and would chat away and do all that kind of thing , whereas David was very much like his mother in terms of showing affection . |
| 8 | That er they were all more or less that kind of band . |
| 9 | Perhaps some kind of spell was broken . |
| 10 | It is , after all , only another kind of sentimentality , drowning the painful scene in the self-indulgent feelings of the onlooker . |
| 11 | Naturally this kind of thing would require a change of name . |
| 12 | It is surprising how long this kind of grudge can be remembered , perhaps because the occasion is inextricably mixed with feelings of loss and deprivation caused by the parent 's death . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's obviously some kind of misunderstanding here . |
| 14 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 15 | Obviously this kind of argument is not limited to biochemistry . |
| 16 | Naturally enough this kind of discourse is not unrelated to the facts of the situation . |
| 17 | At Glasgow School of Art , she was lucky enough to have a teacher who understood that an artist has to ‘ break down some kind of barrier within yourself ’ , transcending stifling Scottish morality . |
| 18 | ‘ There are so many kinds of charcoal , for so many different uses , for heating . |
| 19 | Given that so many kinds of pollution are avoidable , it really is high time that we all did something to bring an end to this needless damage . |
| 20 | The larvae of ichneumid wasps are parasitic on the developmental stages of insects or spiders , which egg laying females locate by searching narrowly circumscribed micro-habitats ; they are as much niche-specific as host-specific , and it is because there is such a range of niches in a garden that there are so many kinds of adult wasps . |
| 21 | I repeated and repeated the twenty-third psalm , as I had done in so many kinds of danger before . |
| 22 | It is only permitted as a private belief , so any kind of witnessing is dangerous . |
| 23 | ‘ And now you 're going to tell me that you 're not that kind of girl , ’ he said , his lips barely moving . |
| 24 | ‘ Not that kind of case , pilgrim . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm not that kind of fool . ’ |
| 26 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 27 | I 'm not that kind of detective . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ No , no , not that kind of wetness . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not that kind of illness . ’ |
| 30 | No it 's not That kind of machine is is the water is they they pump the bloody thing up so far , so your your washing machi your er blah blah bl your your clothes is so dry . |