Example sentences of "it was [prep] [det] kind " in BNC.

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1 It was with this kind of experience of rapidly changing war behind them that the English began their long conflict against France .
2 Heather 's film would have led him there even if intuition had not , for the next picture on it was of some kind of school or college and there was one member of the Tyrrell Society 's inner circle , the circle in which Heather had been vitally interested whatever Cunningham might believe to the contrary , still unaccounted for .
3 Yet it emphasizes the close personal bonds which had existed between the dukes of Aquitaine and their vassals : the Pommiers were an ancient family , members of the ducal household , and it was to this kind of traditional relationship that appeal could be made by a largely absentee king-duke at periods of crisis .
4 It was in that kind of environment that the Takeover Panel started its life from small beginnings and with a light touch .
5 It was within this kind of environment that chivalry flourished , that young men learned to identify , their vassalage towards their lord as a symbol of their honour , that they debated the relative merits of Roland 's and Oliver 's way of displaying loyalty ; and that they learned the finer points of jousting .
6 It was like some kind of School Of Rock ‘ n ’ Roll .
7 It 's just that at the time it all seemed so beautiful and important , it was like some kind of historical event .
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