Example sentences of "kind [prep] [noun sg] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In several towns rioting broke out , rioting for peace , and Nazis found themselves the victims of the kind of abuse and maltreatment they normally handed out to others . |
| 2 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 3 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 4 | This is the kind of bustle and action which makes gravel pits and reservoirs such fine birdwatching locations on a bleak midwinter 's day . |
| 5 | They 've got every kind of toy and equipment you can think of . |
| 6 | Cell walls are covered with fantasy women , always available , pouting and meaningless , two-dimensional figures available for any kind of degradation and brutality you want to inflict . |
| 7 | We get curious pride , you know , working with these kids … it 's rather like the kind of pride and fascination you get when you persuade a wild animal to eat from your hand … a curious feeling |
| 8 | The fictional Eastertide death of Philip at Lydiard Constantine ( in Swindon ) , leaving the narrator to continue the kind of life that Thomas himself followed in his preparation for matriculation at Oxford in October 1897 , reads like a youthful reaction to the actual death of Ashcroft Noble on Good Friday 1896 . |
| 9 | Goffman 's emphasis is upon a wide range of cues which tell us what kind of activity or behaviour we are engaged in . |
| 10 | We also learned a good deal from that questionnaire about the kind of support and services you would like to see provided by the Alumni Office . |
| 11 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 12 | At an already existing school with much less lavish provision , Ron Mitson of Codsall Comprehensive established a thorough change of the total organizational pattern of the school in order to provoke , stimulate and support the kind of thinking and innovation he sought from his staff . |
| 13 | Silence fell , during which Liz inspected Henrietta 's blue dress : it was poutily , boldly cut , made of the kind of shot , stiff , shiny non-absorbent kind of fabric that Liz herself avoided , for it made her sweat ; indeed it made her sweat to look at it . |
| 14 | But not from the outside : this kind of camp undermines the depth model of identity from inside , being a kind of parody and mimicry which hollows out from within , making depth recede into its surfaces . |
| 15 | Another myth is that Scorpios are sex-mad , but they do exude a kind of magnetism and sexuality which others find hard to resist . |
| 16 | In 1974 , Emerson decided to move from Lotus to McLaren , a move dictated by the kind of restlessness and self-interest which characterize most racing drivers and , more than possibly , by the fact that 1974 was the year in which the multi-million-dollar multinational , Phillip Morris , took over the sponsorship of the McLaren team . |
| 17 | It is a process analogous in some ways to story-telling , where the point is made precisely through a sacrifice of the kind of literalness and explicitness which the logician , by the nature of his training , tends to regard as the ultimate requirement of clarity , and indeed an intrinsic feature of truth . |
| 18 | There is a kind of laziness or weariness which seeps into troubled marriages . |
| 19 | The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked . |