Example sentences of "type [prep] [noun] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The most common type of hedge is the written call combined with an investment in the security itself .
2 The most familiar representative of this type of person is the public benefactor , who with the utmost aggressiveness and energy demands money from one set of people in order to give it to another .
3 In any case , this type of speculation is a complete waste of time and anyone who seriously thinks that all is quiet on the western front as the twentieth century draws to a close must be dozing in his dug-out .
4 The most outstanding example of this type of work is the Pisan complex , the Piazza dei Miracoli in the city ( 285 and 286 ) .
5 It is possible that the very rarity of this type of evidence is an important clue .
6 Do n't worry : this type of behaviour is a normal part of children 's development , but they usually leave it behind as they grow up .
7 In the final management function of a budget , that of evaluation , the analysis moves to assessing whether that type of expenditure was the best way of meeting organisational objectives .
8 Labour ex-Cabinet minister Lord Healey warned : ‘ Lady Thatcher 's type of nationalism is the greatest single danger to peace in the modern world , and Mr Major 's failure to confront it head-on as such a danger has made a civil war in the government party a danger to Britain and to Europe as whole . ’
9 A promising type of customer is the trucking fleet operator .
10 As second type of cache is the cached IDE host adaptor .
11 However , the fact that people are being charged a rate that fairly reflects the lender 's costs does not necessarily mean that this type of credit is a good buy for them .
12 The third type of audit is a particular kind of investigation , such as a contract audit , which is performed by specialist auditors and consultants .
13 Another type of derrick was a triangular ‘ gibbet ’ .
14 A much more interesting type of relation is an elegant analogy , due to Solomon W. Golomb of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles , between the unachievable twists of a third turn of a cube corner and the unobservable quarks of charge one-third .
15 The latest type of basin is the semi-recessed countertop basin , which is often designed to be installed as part of a run of fitted bathroom units .
16 The second type of analysis is the macro-economic approach , deducing future developments from past quantitative macro-economic observations .
17 Australian Mutual Provident said yesterday that this type of business was a declining sector of the UK .
18 occurring amino acids in proteins , and any individual type of protein is a unique sequence of up to several hundred such amino acids .
19 In any rack system this type of device is an excellent idea .
20 But it should not be taken for granted that these types of programmes are the ideal and only way to approach health education , whether in schools or by health professionals .
21 Her article reveals that among the more easily preventable or curable types of stress are the work-related ones .
22 Therefore a study of the types of question is a useful preparation point : Types of Question Question type Explanation ( 1 ) A data recall question requires the pupil to remember facts without putting them to any use , e.g. " When was the Battle of Hastings ? " ( 2 ) A naming question asks the pupil to name something without showing how it relates to the historical situation , e.g. " What are the men in the picture wearing ? "
23 The other main types of web are the shelf-like cobweb , built by the common house spider , the funnel web and the hammock web .
24 Two very different types of plant are the giant redwood trees which can be up to or exceeding 100 metres in height and one celled algae in water .
25 More often than not the principal criterion used in practice for weeding of all types of collections is the subjective one of ‘ the librarian 's own judgement ’ , based upon a knowledge of the users and of the subject literatures covered by the collection .
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