Example sentences of "[modal v] be [det] kind [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be some kind of rubbish disposal facility and you need proper campsites for the trekkers , with camp wardens . |
| 2 | There should be some kind of civilian medal for this . |
| 3 | Consequently , there were counter-proposals that within the new organisation there still should be some kind of authoritative institution that would represent the interests of the participating states . |
| 4 | ‘ There should be some kind of effort at rolling Instead , we have had retrenchment , ’ he said . |
| 5 | One possibility propounded by a colleague is that there should be some kind of pay-back to the museums perhaps in the form of a levy for their help in identifying finds . |
| 6 | Is it not something that erm the literature group coming out of the erm the course have begun to tackle , you know , the idea that there should be some kind of coordinating personal body or something that erm |
| 7 | It is necessary that there should be some kind of previous relationship between the parties . |
| 8 | Because you should be told constantly , throughout the year , and there should be some kind of re-assessment . |
| 9 | It must be some kind of joke . |
| 10 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 11 | .. I do n't know what this is founded in , but I believe that there must be some kind of basic system of balance , where everything 's weighed up and when all the pain we 've created in the world gets salved because we live again . |
| 12 | Still , without returning on our tracks and urging the rigorist position ( that one must always do as much good as possible ) , there must be some kind of requirement that one do as little harm as possible , in terms of actual pain ( though not perhaps in terms of pleasure prevented ) in order to achieve the good one does . |
| 13 | ‘ He must be some kind of animal . ’ |
| 14 | Mutis ' volumes began to come out only in 1954 , which must be some kind of record ; in this case the explanation was the various political vicissitudes of the century and a half following his death . |
| 15 | If you join someone else 's , you must be some kind of sadist . ’ |
| 16 | That all fitted in with the theory that the reason for Luke 's non-appearance must be some kind of business disaster . |
| 17 | so it 's not a way of reaching people with a disability and , you know , that might be that kind of |
| 18 | Mr Litmus says it might be some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 19 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 20 | Such an expressed intention puts the book into the ‘ holistic ’ category and might alarm many scientists that what is to follow might be some kind of woolly metaphysical vagueness . |
| 21 | ‘ We ca n't have books because there might be some kind of secret coded messages written in them . ’ |
| 22 | I had to admit that , given my experiences of the evening , it remained a logical possibility that there might be some kind of entity out there skulking in some dark corner of the Cathedral , but somehow I thought not . |
| 23 | I thought there might be some kind of cover-up . |
| 24 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 25 | ‘ We still have this idea that if we do something morally wrong , or what They said was wrong , there 'll be some kind of Divine Retribution , ’ said William . |
| 26 | ‘ You think it could be some kind of viral infection ? ’ |
| 27 | There may be all kinds of professional practices which frail and inarticulate older people hate , but which , without support , they would be unable to articulate . |
| 28 | There may be some kind of sequencing to functions , some order in the way they follow another : request — refusal ; plea — offer and so on . |
| 29 | There may be some kind of notice on them that says , you know , these machines should not be switched and then everything would be switched off . |
| 30 | This is a complex notion in itself , because as Figure 2.1 suggests , there may be several kinds of boundaries , demarcated in different kinds of ways ; and the nature of the boundaries may be as much as institutional or professional as epistemological . |