Example sentences of "any kind [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 2 | There are few things in the human condition more likely to create intrigue and speculation than the person who manages to progress through life without marrying , and those who have avoided a close relationship of any kind with the opposite sex arouse special interest . |
| 3 | Mr Moore added : ‘ Bulletins about my progress will be issued in due course but neither my wife nor myself will be making any further statements of any kind with regard to my medical condition . |
| 4 | This situation might seem more difficult in the case of physical activities such as walking : I walk , with or without conscious effort , it may be said , but have no access of any kind to the associated brain , nerve and muscle activities , even though we have perfectly good physiological evidence for the regular association of those activities with the act of walking . |
| 5 | She wanted dearly to inform him in no uncertain terms that he was in no position to make personal remarks of any kind to her , but she had an uneasy suspicion that any further rebukes on that score would only somehow backfire on her . |
| 6 | In a House of Commons debate at the end of the month the Foreign Office said that UK had " never given , and will never give , support of any kind to the Khmers Rouges " . |
| 7 | Big bang , or chance , or evolution can not provide any answer of any kind to this overall why ? question . |
| 8 | It provides that information may be withheld where a firm : " maintains an established arrangement which requires information obtained by the firm in the course of carrying on one part of its business of any kind to be withheld in certain circumstances from persons with whom it deals in the course of carrying on another part of its business of any kind . " |
| 9 | We have always tried at every stage to erm avoid a commitment of any kind to an outer northern route . |
| 10 | You 're an idiot if you submit an article or a piece of any kind to a magazine , to a newspaper , without actually having looked at it , and studied it , and asked yourselves the question , ‘ What sort of house style is it ? |
| 11 | After a launch failure of any kind above two or three hundred feet , once the speed has been checked , it is best to turn off 90° or so in order to avoid going further from the field . |
| 12 | The occasion for the split in the National Union was a call from women involved in the International Women 's Suffrage Alliance for delegates to attend a Women 's Congress in The Hague in April 1915 , the first major international meeting of any kind since the outbreak of war . |
| 13 | the red-faced ‘ Parlour Orator ’ who complacently pontificates on public affairs to the admiration of his little coterie : ‘ there is not a parlour [ i.e. in an inn or tavern ] , or club-room , or benefit society , or humble party of any kind without its red-faced man ’ . |
| 14 | It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else . |
| 15 | Spring-flowering bulbs are difficult for any kind of gardener to resist since , unless they are asked to grow in appalling soil conditions , success if usually guaranteed . |
| 16 | I would therefore advise against taking any kind of drugs , not just because it is unsporting , or because of the threat of severe penalties on discovery , but also because of the adverse effects any drug regime has on the mind and body . |
| 17 | There are , though , a host of reasons for resisting any kind of equation between mental representations and mental pictures ; and all of these derive from one fundamental reason . |
| 18 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 19 | A fine of £4,000 is certainly not going to act as any kind of deterrent to her future behaviour . |
| 20 | Some towns and cities are now devoid of any kind of public freight terminal , or even a suitable siding which could be used for a one-off consignment . |
| 21 | He also laid down certain rules fur balance , on the need to bend the knees always as a preparation for any kind of step followed by a stretch , on the vital use of the head and on the need fur the co-ordination of all parts if the desired movements were to be precise and elegant . |
| 22 | Versions of the traditional hornpipe danced by sailors of many nationalities are featured in many ballets because it is so descriptive of the very particular way in which seamen walk and do the many different jobs that have to be done on any kind of boat . |
| 23 | A study of how people react in real life when affected by any kind of emotion and mood soon reveals how the movements of the whole body can change . |
| 24 | To produce any kind of character and/or national ballet the choreographer should call on the three kinds of mime mentioned earlier , viz. conventional and occupational gesture and natural emotional expression . |
| 25 | The bolting is clearly against the BMC 's policy and I think it is extremely unlikely that the BMC 's committee of management will accept any kind of amendment to that policy . |
| 26 | If you have a good facing brick , it is generally best not to paint it or seal it with any kind of coating . |
| 27 | And the irony is compounded by the fact that Derrida goes out of his way to resist any kind of adequate treatment in a book like this . |
| 28 | Leavis held firm to the idea that any kind of responsible discussion of literature was a critical act , so that the academic was inescapably engaged in criticism when lecturing or conducting a seminar . |
| 29 | He is now a poststructuralist and has abandoned the great Jane Austen project , as he disbelieves in the possibility of any kind of definite textual meaning or interpretation : ‘ every decoding is another encoding . ’ |
| 30 | The same thing happens when , later in the essay , Eliot defines the limitation of Pound 's kind of criticism ( for ‘ any kind of criticism has its limitations ’ ) : ‘ The limitation of Pound 's kind is in its concentration upon the craft of letters , and of poetry especially ’ . |