Example sentences of "of [adj] kind [is] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally an out-of-school visit of some kind is desirable in nearly every history study . |
| 2 | But there is another reason why communities like Belfast are difficult to deal with , and this is that the phonology of such communities is not usually adequately described and codified beforehand , whereas more information of this kind is available for varieties closer to ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 3 | Hypocrisy of this kind is familiar to us all , from our own practice of it and from our knowledge of it in others , whether real people or fictional characters , such as the puritan ministers in Ben Jonson 's The Alchemist . |
| 4 | A schema of this kind is applicable to every type of society , and one particularly interesting question which it suggests is whether there may also be contradictions in socialist society ; that is to say , in such societies , claiming to be socialist , as actually existed in Eastern Europe , and could be studied in the world today , not in some imagined future condition of things where complete social harmony would prevail by definition . |
| 5 | There have been evolutionists who have denied that gradualism of this kind is necessary in evolution . |
| 6 | Speaking at the launch councillor John Kerr , chairman of the Board of Management of ERNACT , said : ‘ An economic database of this kind is new to the region . |
| 7 | It was this kind of evidence that led us to use the social network model in a systematic way : as Ballymacarrett is the most stable and well-established of the communities , we can conclude that the social conditions there are favourable to the emergence of a close-knit network structure of the kind often found in low-status communities ( Young and Wilmott , 1962 ) , and there is ample ethnographic evidence that a close-knit structure of this kind is capable of imposing normative consensus on its members . |
| 8 | An indifference of this kind is clearer in the 1950s , and can even be seen to have been deliberately fostered . |
| 9 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 10 | It is true that preoccupation with theoretical accounts of phenomena of all kinds is characteristic of German culture at least since the days of Leibnitz at the beginning of the eighteenth century , but in this instance there is a more specific reason . |
| 11 | Transport of any kind is subject to the conditions of carriage of the company actually providing that transport . |
| 12 | Again , referring to the possible origin of our upright posture , Jolly remarks that ‘ locomotion of any kind is infrequent during gelada-like foraging , so that … it is an ideal apprenticeship for an adapting biped . ’ |