Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not equipped to deal with a progressive condition , they were not that kind of establishment . |
| 2 | It was exactly this kind of initiative that Darwin would bring forward in the Origin of Species . |
| 3 | For J Edgar Hoover , happiness was just another kind of disorder . |
| 4 | It was just this kind of argument that two company directors put forward when they were prosecuted in New South Wales in 1979 for apparently causing shareholders to lose more than A$22 millions ( Hopkins 1980b ) . |
| 5 | He was not that kind of priest . |
| 6 | I knew this had been a place of elegance , had been sanctified in literature , but it was not that kind of place to me . |
| 7 | It was as if I needed proof that your first letter was not some kind of trick and you were dead after all . |
| 8 | The historical reality during the sixteenth and much of the seventeenth centuries was usually some kind of amalgam , such as that expressed by Martin Luther in his evaluation of alchemy : As the earthly alchemist purified through fire , leaving the dregs at the bottom of the furnace , so , at the Day of Judgment , the divine alchemist would separate all things through fire , the righteous from the ungodly . |
| 9 | I mean th there w there was always some kind of trigger that that that broke that initial feeling of isolation and and suspicion . |
| 10 | Above the Company uniform her waves of lustrous brown hair were pinned back from her face but it did n't hide the fact that she was also some kind of tower . |
| 11 | She wanted to assure him that she was n't that kind of idiot . |
| 12 | Of course that had been mostly created by the lack of money , but the instability she saw in Joe was n't that kind of lack , it was something she could n't put her finger on . |
| 13 | She was n't that kind of girl . ’ |
| 14 | But Gyggle was n't that kind of shrink ; he kept on at me . |
| 15 | The kitschy Sixties strip routines are , er , amusing — but was n't this kind of thing supposed to belong in Fenn 's pre-Lynch past ? |
| 16 | There was n't any kind of conflict or argument throughout the whole time of our assembly . |