Example sentences of "kind of [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is fine to stay at this kind of level for a while . |
| 2 | But the Chiefs were not a different kind of person in the way that , in the armed services , officers were officers and men were men . |
| 3 | That 's a kind of law of the form of movement of planets . |
| 4 | She listened with a kind of exultation to the rain battering the taut umbrella , trying to get in , trying to squeeze between their tightly welded bodies , as they forced their way on . |
| 5 | Any kind of sex with a man 81% |
| 6 | During the autumn and winter keep the compost from drying out completely , which means providing some kind of protection over the plant . |
| 7 | This argument he knew of old was hopeless and he listened to his own voice with a kind of horror as a note of pleading crept into it . |
| 8 | People in the popular movement had a different kind of disquiet with the leadership of the PLO . |
| 9 | The one position he or she should avoid is of being a kind of co-conspirator with the politician against the legitimate interests of the audience and that , it has seemed to me lately , is an increasingly easy trap to fall into . |
| 10 | Achieving this kind of position within the group requires , in addition to being tall , a full knowledge of the entire repertoire of chants and of the occasions on which it is appropriate to use them . |
| 11 | Even a week of sitting there , supping in the beer by a kind of osmosis through the atmosphere , and eating solid sandwiches , seemed to have deposited a tiny roll of fat round his waist . |
| 12 | If you 're in some kind of jam with the law , I might not get paid . |
| 13 | Looking back , it is curious how long it took us to get rid of this idea of some kind of defect inside the body of the glass . |
| 14 | There is a kind of fatalism in the atmosphere of this place which the officials he meets all seem to share . |
| 15 | Has there been any kind of surprise of the amount of support that you have got ? |
| 16 | Anyway , it was the sort of remark that provoked Salman Rushdie 's wrath in the Independent on Sunday : ‘ To see so diverse a list dumped on people who simply have n't read the books is to make one feel a kind of despair about the culture of denigration in which we live . |
| 17 | She saw his fear , his bewilderment , and above all , a kind of astonishment at the enormity of the complications that lay ahead . |
| 18 | could clearly make some kind of differentiation between a conglomerate paying V A T or some such tax whereas er the exception could be made to those people who are not clearly in a position to make er er to say that . |
| 19 | Parsons became a kind of spokesman for a generation , within the music press at least . |
| 20 | Maybe he 'd brought her here to act as some kind of pawn in a game he played with Marianne , she realised dully . |
| 21 | For the authors , the semantic net had been so important that to see node-link-node triples before each paragraph provided a kind of unity to the document . |
| 22 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 23 | Have you noticed any kind of , like a kind of hierarchy within the factory , like you know one section thinks they 're better than another section ? |
| 24 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 25 | This kind of division in the labour market between youth and adults jobs was also investigated by Ashton et al . |
| 26 | It became possible to determine the correct numbers of each kind of atom in a molecule by means of the already available Avogadro 's Law of 1811 , which a patriotic Italian chemist drew to the attention of an international symposium on the question in 1860 , the year of Italian unity . |
| 27 | If the housing market is some kind of barometer for the rest of the economy , it may be time for a mile sigh of relief . |
| 28 | Indeed , Simon Peter offers a kind of barometer of the situation . |
| 29 | She had never intended to become involved in this kind of conversation with the soldier , but somehow he had trapped her into replying . |
| 30 | Today a President really does not have the kind of clout with the Congress that he had thirty years ago , even in matters that affect national security . ’ |