Example sentences of "kind of [noun] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are under sixteen you are obliged to receive some kind of education until you reach this age . |
| 2 | We applaud this kind of person when they climb mountains , cross deserts , sail oceans and survive against incredible odds . |
| 3 | You will almost certainly be asked to provide some kind of identification when you go to the hire shop — and do n't be surprised if you have your photograph taken ! |
| 4 | But a bat uses its sound information for very much the same kind of purpose as we use our visual information . |
| 5 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month . |
| 7 | ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month . |
| 8 | Then she would find her pride and not indulge in this kind of behaviour when it had no future . |
| 9 | A kind of midwife if you like . ’ |
| 10 | In fact , if anything , we 're going to be doing less and less of that kind of music as we go along . |
| 11 | Do you do anything special on a Sunday or do you eat the same kind of things as you eat a normal day ? |
| 12 | The remarkable thing is that one gets exactly the same kind of fringes if one replaces the source of light by a source of particles such as electrons with a definite speed ( this means that the corresponding waves have a definite length ) . |
| 13 | Obviously the younger members of the family became too enthusiastic about it all because Grandfather Tallentire threatened a different kind of stop if they carried on spending so much of their time playing and talking about music . |
| 14 | And you stayed in that kind of work until you got married , ? |
| 15 | Some might call Connaught the Real Ireland , but I do n't see why turf-cutters are any more or less real than Midland golfers who cut a different kind of turf when they swing their clubs . |
| 16 | Perhaps he was n't without blame , but had n't she made the same kind of mistake when she had endowed Marcus with the qualities she 'd wanted him to possess ? |
| 17 | It is the same kind of calculation as we did for haemoglobin , and it produces a similarly large result . |
| 18 | I give you fair warning there 'll be no more of that kind of rubbish when he gets back . ’ |
| 19 | As he himself said , it would be pointless to study such peoples with a questionnaire , since they do not write , and , while he certainly gained a great deal of essential information from conversation and discussion , it would have been quite futile to try to conduct any kind of interview until he had gained their trust and confidence , and until he had some idea of what kinds of questions he should be asking . |
| 20 | In any case , he has to notify the Drivers ' Medical Branch of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre if he has any kind of disability when he resumes driving . |
| 21 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 22 | I would imagine that Shereen would apply the same kind of pattern as you did to the de-toxification centre meeting , Shereen , and I felt that there were a great many people there , a great many interested , including the voluntary interest . |
| 23 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 24 | ‘ It was a kind of torture because it reminded me of how you made love . ’ |
| 25 | You could almost say there 's a kind of rule that says you ought to write in fairly free verse nowadays and that you 're making a kind of statement if you do n't . |
| 26 | The flurry is caused by the arrival of an old car , of a type that retains a kind of dignity as it ages . |
| 27 | He sat down and watched her , fascinated , as she put the bread to her mouth , her eyes closing in a kind of ecstasy when she bit into it . |
| 28 | There is the same kind of trigger when he hears that other language , not such a rare occurrence now , especially in Roxbury , where he wanders on those Sundays ; it is a language in which machines might converse when no human being is around to listen . |
| 29 | You know more about this kind of thing than I do . |
| 30 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |