Checking for a Material instead of a block

So when I want to Check For Block (insert the block) it can be very annoying because let's say you want it to check for all your grass blocks plus vanilla, it takes a lot of them. So I think there should be a procedure similar to the Check For Block that checks for a Material instead. So it would check for all Sand or all Vines, all Leaves, all Plants, etc. It'd be very helpful and would make for better compatibility with other mods as it can check their block's materials as well since they are a universal thing.