Example sentences of "very [adj] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were a pioneer of a necessary but very undesirable kind of activity . |
| 2 | Mrs. G. is a very respectable kind of woman . ’ |
| 3 | If one likes , one could ascribe this randomness to the intervention of God , but it would be a very strange kind of intervention : there is no evidence that it is directed toward any purpose . |
| 4 | One would not suggest that they did not hold the Muftilik , but one can suggest that they held a very different kind of Muftilik from that held by Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 5 | The 1902 eruption of Mt Pelee was the first recognized example of a Peleean eruption , a very different kind of phenomenon from the ‘ ordinary ’ Vesuvian or Plinian types , although Peleean eruptions often occur as short-lived side-shows to the latter . |
| 6 | Clearly , accommodation by children may be a very different kind of phenomenon from accommodation by adults … |
| 7 | Bortoni-Ricardo 's ( 1985 ) work in Brasilia provides an example of a sociolinguistic ‘ network ’ study of a closeknit migrant community from a very different kind of society , using methods very similar to those described here . |
| 8 | An accumulation of reforms may in fact bring into existence a very different kind of society , and reformist parties may be led , by circumstances and by their responses to them , into advocating and implementing more substantial changes in society than they had originally envisaged . |
| 9 | And the second is we 're going to have a very different kind of marriage this time . |
| 10 | Offering a home to an elderly parent — or more particularly , not offering a home — can be a very different kind of decision , according to whether or not there are acceptable alternatives readily available . |
| 11 | She laughed — a different , shorter laugh , expressing a very different kind of surprise — then shook her head . |
| 12 | A very different kind of walking takes place between Bradford and Ilkley on Spring Bank Holiday Monday ; this is the Bradford Whit Walk . |
| 13 | This time I have a very different kind of success story to tell you . |
| 14 | Well just down the road from the Shrewsbury Flower Festival there 's a very different kind of celebration taking place . |
| 15 | Deborah Harry was a very different kind of role model . |
| 16 | His own alma mater , situated a few miles away , was a very different kind of institution , a dingy tower block , crammed with machinery and lab benches , overlooking a railway marshalling yard and a roundabout on the inner ring road . |
| 17 | The latter is a very different kind of statement from the former . |
| 18 | Philip was to be a very different kind of ruler . |
| 19 | While most thoughts are still on London , RUNNING Magazine 's Publisher Nick Williams looks back on a very different kind of marathon at Lanzarote 's Club La Santa |
| 20 | Very different kind of humour where no , I , I , unfortunately I agree with you . |
| 21 | This is a very different kind of argument , a pragmatic one . |
| 22 | This variety creates a very different kind of street to the large corporate headquarters running the length of a block with a single front door in the centre . |
| 23 | A very public kind of life . |
| 24 | He is a very pure kind of capitalist who believes fanatically in the laws of supply and demand . |
| 25 | The fact that a very similar kind of furniture can be bought in an enormous variety of different places , there 's not this same idea that ‘ Oh , I would n't ever go in that sort of shop to buy it because it 's not a place for my sort of person ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's a very clever kind of man , ’ said Betty to her other employer , Dotty Harmer , one morning . |
| 27 | I think that 's a very unfair kind of criticism . |
| 28 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 29 | He represents biology which represents the future as far as George is concerned he represents genetic engineering and a very frightening kind of vision |
| 30 | He was without doubt the very worst kind of news reporter , taking a few bare facts and embroidering them into a story ! |