The phrase "a kind of link" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe something that is connected or related to something else, but not in a direct or obvious way. You can use it when you want to explain a connection between two things that may not seem obviously related at first glance. Example: "The internet is a kind of link that connects people from all over the world, bridging the gaps of distance and time."
Is it the old anti-Semitism which has been nurtured for centuries and reached its tragic climax in the concentration camps, or is it something that has a kind of link with the Middle East situation?" Whatever the case, Ms. Zevi added, "our civilization is somehow unable to prevent or counteract this violence".
Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini and Sergio Leone, of course, were not "Italian-American," but they were so influential in shaping the careers of more contemporary filmmakers, Mr. Skolnick said, that "we decided to include them as a kind of link to the past.
The Maysles' movie Salesman (1969) was a study of salesmen going door-to-door in the US, selling Bibles, and this hard-hitting study forms a kind of link – though perhaps not exactly a missing link – between Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman and David Mamet's 1984 play Glengarry Glen Ross.
"Symbolically it's a kind of link between doctors and patients - a kind of umbilical cord going from one to the other.
In Ireland, which threw off the rule of its English lords only 80 years ago, the project is seen by many (though not the national tourist board) as representing a kind of links imperialism.
But families linked to the revolution are often linked to business — a kind of unholy link between the rebel and the bandit. . . .
Could the mechanism involve any kind of link to the ubiquitin-based viral protein degradation system?
The Doors' music strikes me as a kind of missing link between 50s rock'n'roll and the post-Beatles era.
Fuzzy sets may be defined on a hierarchized domain of values, called a taxonomy (values of the domain are connected using the a kind of semantic link).
Indeed it is a kind of missing link between the long line of classic, acoustic Davis quintets and the high-energy electric outfits of the 70s and after.
On the creationist hypothesis, however, God creates a new soul for each body, thus creating a kind of vertical link between God and each individual soul.
