Example sentences of "[was/were] not the kind [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soaps , audience research had long shown , were not the kind of programme the public associated with the BBC . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But liberty to take action contrary to authority was not the kind of liberty that Anselm had come to Canterbury to promote . |
| 4 | But it was not the kind of station that has taxis waiting outside it , and the two ladies were forced to walk through the crowded streets , now full of people doing their weekend shopping . |
| 5 | The wine , though Richard was not the kind of person whom the sommelier kept waiting , was not particularly good . |
| 6 | She was not the kind of person who was fun , but she was the kind of person that people trusted , and that was a fair trade to her . |
| 7 | Easily enough said with hindsight , but then Eric William was not the kind of man who hid his talents behind a bushel , for as Ivar Oxaal noticed , ‘ Eric Williams was always fundamentally , legally , morally and intellectually right ’ while his opponents were ‘ usually incompetent , malicious , and weak-willed creatures ’ who ‘ are reduced to an incoherent blubbering as the omnipotent young black colonial reduces their arguments to ashes . ’ |
| 8 | Clive Kemp was not the kind of man to inspire such respectful , obedient haste . |
| 9 | Alexander Vass was not the kind of man whom she was likely to involve in such a fantasy . |
| 10 | One neighbour said : ‘ He was not the kind of man you associate with James Bond activities . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | It was not the kind of approach to the situation that the survey briefing had led him to expect , and Rostov realised that he was going to have to adjust his notions about standards of behaviour . |
| 13 | His was not the kind of face to reveal weakness by showing surprise but his eyes widened fractionally . |
| 14 | She was not the kind of mother who by carelessness would make her child feel insecure . |
| 15 | Borrowing at this time was not the kind of consumer or investment borrowing which we so frequently observe today . |
| 16 | Hattie was not the kind of woman ever to be troubled by demons . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She saw a young , rather handsome man , whose brown eyes looked at her in a way she found slightly disturbing , though this was not the kind of thing she would have admitted to anybody but herself . |
| 20 | Running her mind quickly over the events of the week just passed , she could n't think of anything she had done wrong , and Tom Russell was not the kind of doctor who made mountains out of molehills where nursing procedure was concerned . |