Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The Darwinians assumed that this kind of coloration had been developed by natural selection .
2 Some kind of decision had been reached .
3 But can we then be quite sure that at a later stage , when the same kind of performance has been taken out of the service and then out of the church , the signal is unambiguously to ‘ art ’ ?
4 That kind of art has been forbidden since 1932 .
5 ‘ This is the first time this kind of survey has been done .
6 Only very gradually did a small number of educated critics come to see that although quite different from the Russian and European film the Hollywood and Hollywood-inspired film had developed its own qualities and that the great mass audience for that kind of entertainment had been responding quite genuinely to positive influence .
7 The same kind of damage has been described for the golden eagle feeding on roe deer ( Ratcliffe & Rowe , 1979 ) : when it penetrates the carcase through the shoulder region , it breaks through the scapula so as to extract the soft internal organs .
8 This kind of universalism has been strengthened more recently by the work of Braverman ( 1974 ) who argued that ‘ Taylorism ’ represents the essence of capitalist management , the profoundly anti-democratic invariant to be found within all branches of capitalist production , imposed by the rationality of profit .
9 If some kind of bias has been introduced , how can we know what it is ?
10 In the past , each kind of unit has been expressed in a rather different way , by means of a different type of unit specification , or module descriptor .
11 This kind of criticism has been made by the writers mentioned above , and has also been amplified by Rowbotham et al .
12 The choreographer must decide what kind of subject has been chosen .
13 In human pathology , this kind of mutation has been correlated with severe diseases such as the Kearns-Sayre syndrome , but the mutant strain , does not seem to be affected by the mutation ( 1 ) .
14 ‘ I understood from you , Morgan , some kind of alert had been sent out .
15 And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock .
16 ‘ The security requirements for those holding any kind of firearm have been increased considerably and these are rigorously enforced by the police .
17 Charles thought that the whole affair was now out of his hands , and , though it was unsatisfactory that so many questions remained unanswered , at least some kind of justice had been done .
18 This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes .
19 In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries .
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