Example sentences of "not the kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's not the kind of vision that distinguishes people . |
| 2 | I am not the kind of person to be treated seriously , in Bob 's jargon . |
| 3 | Perhaps it 's not the kind of humour that transfers well to paper — try explaining Reeves 's hero , Tommy Cooper , in print . |
| 4 | The Tehran trip in May , in which he was humiliated , made him all the more certain that however good the ends , ‘ this was not the kind of exchange that was proper . ’ |
| 5 | She was not the kind of mother who by carelessness would make her child feel insecure . |
| 6 | Fags and mags are not the kind of things people give up lightly , and so recession has not really been a problem for T&S . |
| 7 | But I have to admit that with the exception of the quick GTi and certainly the new 2.8-litre VR6 , the latest Golf is not the kind of car to set the pulses racing . |
| 8 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 9 | John Hemming 's compelling account , The Conquest of the Incas , is a brick of a book , not the kind you want to lug around if you can avoid it . |
| 10 | The evidence was of the way in which the rocks of the oceanic crust are magnetized ; it 's not the kind of thing that one comes across every day , so it will take a bit of explaining . |
| 11 | He stood quite close to her and he said , ‘ I do n't know who you are , lass , never clapped eyes on you , and from the look of you an' your voice you 're not the kind wor Robbie would pick up with . |
| 12 | Although , when the three friends reunite in 1959 after thirteen years , they have not achieved everything they hoped for as adolescents , we are left at the end of the play with a feeling of hope — not the kind of false hope prescribed by Soviet censors but the hope that comes from being young and strong and having lived through difficult times . |
| 13 | Clark Gable , Errol Flynn , Adolph Menjou — these are not the kind of men to serve as archetypes for celibate priests . |
| 14 | Frances McAvennie , a former council roadsweeper from Glasgow 's Milton housing scheme , is not the kind of character you immediately associate with brasserie lifestyle . |
| 15 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 16 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |
| 17 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |
| 18 | Not the kind of benefit that we would have traded our son for , but no longer can anyone look at us when we try to console their loss of a child and say , ‘ But you do n't understand ’ . |
| 19 | The fingerboard is plain , dot-free Indian rosewood , with a two-fret extension over the soundhole to bring the number of frets up to twenty-two ; The frets themselves are hard nickel silver , made in Holland — not the kind that will need replacing after a year or so . |
| 20 | In fact , it sounds rather like the tone of a flat-out , old Fender Champ — not the kind of thing they 'd like to hear down at your local C&W club ! |
| 21 | These are not the kind of facts which can be found in the history books ; they are small matters which would be of no real importance except to the people concerned . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyone who knows Jo would realise that she 's not the kind of person to do that , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's not the kind of document you are going to get a dramatic reaction to ; you might say it 's more of a White Paper , ’ Ernst & Young 's Mort Meyerson told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 24 | Now and again Dinah would come on a phrase that interested her , but it was not the kind of subject she would have chosen to read , much less write out ; and these evenings she had to write it . |
| 25 | There 's certainly a tribal vibe here , but it 's not the kind of ecstatic enlightenment and spiritual hedonism The Shamen are promoting . |
| 26 | He is not the kind of bloke who wishes to know his coloured brethren . ’ |
| 27 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 28 | If you 're not the kind of person who is used to daydreaming , try a simple one first . |
| 29 | Borrowing at this time was not the kind of consumer or investment borrowing which we so frequently observe today . |
| 30 | I 'm not the kind of person who is afraid of letting a woman take charge professionally , personally — or sexually . |