Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] some kind of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems . |
| 2 | What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon . |
| 3 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 're looking for some kind of … counselling , ’ says Riva , ‘ I 'll ask my father if he knows of anyone who … ’ |
| 5 | Very low-calorie diets need to be undertaken with some kind of supervision , and are usually best suited to anyone with more than two stones to lose . |
| 6 | Yet talk to any established composer nowadays , and the likelihood is that he or she is about to be embroiled in some kind of operatic project , perhaps planned for the middle-distant future ( timescales are necessarily generous for opera ) but nevertheless fully engaged in the kind of musical thinking that three decades ago would have beyond the wildest dreams for all but the most exclusive , established few — Benjamin Britten and Tippett in Britain , Hans Werner Henze on the Continent . |
| 7 | Socata 's parent company Aerospatiale is responsible for the cockpit architecture of the Airbus line , and there have clearly been transfers of technology between Toulouse and Tarbes , the result being that the TBM 700 needs to be flown like some kind of ! 320 . |
| 8 | Equally important to guard against , on the Tory side , is the idea that Mr Major must now be regarded as some kind of superman . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 10 | EP : Last time I saw you we felt that we should be looking at some kind of school with weekly boarding . |
| 11 | But then it is precisely because all significant ideologies are indeed this deep and elaborated that the concept can not be abstracted as some kind of ‘ informing spirit ’ , at the roots of all cultural production . |
| 12 | Any clusterer should be founded on some kind of theory based on probabilities . |
| 13 | She realised he must be going through some kind of hell waiting for the rime when he could let all his suppressed urges out . |
| 14 | Some , however , were concerned about the nature of the play activities , almost all of which were seen to be based on some kind of violence . |
| 15 | But a less obvious kind of evidence may , according to Labov , be provided by some kind of irregularity in the expected pattern of differentiation according to speech style , or sex or social class of speaker . |
| 16 | The wall was as it had always been … but at the centre was a black smear , like the blackened smear that might be left by some kind of fire ; as if a blowlamp had been held there . |
| 17 | It was horrible , and I 'm sorry it happened , but it should be kept in some kind of perspective . ’ |
| 18 | To be pressurised into some kind of sexual surrender ? |
| 19 | Then there was Aengus , the youngest : his owlish glasses made him look studious and he was the only Foley boy not to be chosen for some kind of team in the school . |
| 20 | The government position appears to be that if teacher trainers spend enough time in schools , and if student teachers spend enough time alongside experienced ones and their newly expert trainers , the requisite skills will hopefully be acquired by some kind of osmosis . |
| 21 | This has been represented as some kind of martyrdom on Lewis 's part ; and doubtless , like any long-term relationship , it called for reserves of patience and good humour on both sides . |
| 22 | Again on Bruno Zanardi 's restoration of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ , Fiorella Minervino wrote that the marble had lost its characteristic surface veining ; in her opinion , this was probably due to the use of a chemical solvent to extract the metallic salts which had appeared on the surface , or it may have been caused by some kind of abrasive treatment . |
| 23 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 24 | Quite a large sum of money was created partly out of existing funds ( of LEA ) which were to support in-service in schools that had been identified by some kind of functional group in the school … |
| 25 | You 'd see them being sucked into some kind of centre and disappearing … ’ |
| 26 | Being equipped with some kind of understanding as to how other creatures are put together gives us an excellent handle for comprehending how and why they behave as they do . |
| 27 | The " smaller " systems of hypernumbers introduced were put into some kind of order by the American B Peirce in a paper published posthumously in 1881 . |
| 28 | All three Titford sisters — Ann , Sarah and Mary — were together in Whittox Lane when the census man called in 1841 , and all three , poor relief or not , were engaged in some kind of gainful employment as ‘ wire dappers ’ or ‘ wire setters ’ . |
| 29 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 30 | The DES has made the idea of a national framework more widely acceptable , and , as we shall show , is moving towards some kind of national prescription . |