Example sentences of "kind [prep] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That kind of education will take her back likely to what she was ; I mean , what she could have been . |
| 2 | What kind of child would n't whine until he got a pair of $150 trainers that will let him play basketball — and look — like Michael Jordan ? |
| 3 | The responses to this kind of question should help you pin-point where to begin . |
| 4 | Answering this kind of question will inevitably involve you in a certain amount of guesswork , because you ca n't know for certain what has been going on , but some assumptions are more likely than others . |
| 5 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 6 | What kind of person would you find reassuring ? |
| 7 | Having described the job the next step is to identify what kind of person will fit it . |
| 8 | Leaving aside the question of costs for the time being , what kind of problems will a government anxious to promote positive discrimination policies have to face ? |
| 9 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |
| 10 | There are no clues in the text to suggest what kind of exchange might take place . |
| 11 | As a result no kind of jade can be worked by cutting , flaking or pecking . |
| 12 | Indeed , a kind of inertia may be present whereby the genetic constitution of a species prevents it following the same adaptive route in relation to a common ecology as other species may show . |
| 13 | Well , what kind of fool would I be , in a piece of this length , to summarise the results in any meaningful fashion ? |
| 14 | Well , what kind of fool would I be , in a piece of this length , to summarise the results in any meaningful fashion ? |
| 15 | The issue is now longer apartheid , but what kind of society will replace it . |
| 16 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 17 | Inter-country contributions to revenue based upon this kind of proposal would seem to be somewhat arbitrary , and based upon inter-country differences in smoking and drinking . |
| 18 | ‘ This kind of assistance must come from governments in the form of low interest loans and interest payment subsidies , ’ he says . |
| 19 | This kind of ability can be important in nature . |
| 20 | While the facilities that this kind of software can offer are attractive they can have some drawbacks . |
| 21 | This kind of software can act as a visual aid or electronic blackboard and enables the teacher to present dynamic , colourful and complex images creating a more powerful and exciting lesson . |
| 22 | Redlands has sold around fifty disused sites around the country for similar schemes in the last decade and insists they would take local people 's needs into account in deciding what kind of houses would be built . |
| 23 | Humboldt showed them how to tabulate data to reveal the effect of the environment in determining what kind of species could live in a particular area . |
| 24 | That kind of thoroughness can be given in service to Jesus . |
| 25 | Gandhi 's reply to these kind of questions would probably indicate that for him morality has to be related to what he conceives religion to be . |
| 26 | c ) What kind of questions will they ask ? |
| 27 | No full account of a particular formation or kind of formation can be given without extending description and analysis into general history , where the whole social order and all its classes and formations can be taken properly into account . |
| 28 | Flashing that kind of money in this kind of joint could lead to either of two things , a uniformed policeman or a chippie . |
| 29 | Whatever the desirable size of a library 's stock , the practical starting point for this kind of decision must be the size of the library building itself , and other factors are subordinated to it except on the rare occasions that new libraries are planned . |
| 30 | The plates themselves were of standard design , but a nice sense of hierarchy was observed in the kind of metal used to tie them together — gold for the prince , silver for his wife and bronze for concubines . |