Example sentences of "[noun] of a new kind [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , in decisively increasing the importance of the literate culture , it had the effect of a new kind of stratification , in which the cultural but also the social importance of the still oral majority culture declined .
2 This move would have been scientific if , for example , it had involved the prediction of a new kind of aberration in such a way that the existence of the new aberration could be tested by optical experiments .
3 One , already mentioned , envisages a gradual consolidation of a new kind of middle-class , post-industrial society ( Bell , 1973 ) , based upon advanced technology , a mixed economy and a broad consensus of opinion about social and political goals , which would be peaceful , liberal and in a certain sense ‘ classless ’ .
4 Although professionalism was restricted and most governing sports bodies held themselves aloof from the pursuit of profit , the impression remains that sport soon became part of a ‘ leisure , industry catering for the needs of a new kind of urban consumer .
5 But it is still found that entry qualifications for the bureaucracy are disproportionately obtained by the children of skilled and professional groups , not workers and peasants , so the emergence of a new kind of bourgeoisie seems inevitable ( Barnett 1967 ) .
6 Commodore have ingeniously integrated established technology to create the appearance of a new kind of multimedia system .
7 Not only did this new attitude towards children begin to emerge among educationalists in the middle decades of the eighteenth century , but we can deduce also from the success of small private academies , from the development of a new kind of children 's literature , and from the vastly increased expenditure on the amusements and pleasures of children , that parents , too , were no longer regarding their children as sprigs of old Adam whose wills had to be broken .
8 Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin .
9 It was an awareness of a new kind of potentiality , one very different from my old sense of the word , which had been based on the illusions of ambition .
10 And in the third interview , the net now drawn tight about him , when Porfiry makes a sudden little feint which suggests he wo n't be accused after all , ‘ Raskolnikov felt a rush of a new kind of fear .
11 In its beginnings , therefore , modern nationalism can be seen as one aspect of a class movement which found political expression in a general struggle for democracy ; manifesting itself most clearly in the American Revolution — interpreted by some scholars as the formation of the ‘ first new nation ’ ( Lipset , 1967 ) — and in the French Revolution , which together established the model of a new kind of political system embodying the ideas of ‘ citizenship ’ and ‘ popular sovereignty ’ .
12 Another important National Certificate development is the introduction of a new kind of award : National Certificate Clusters .
13 In The Selfish Gene I speculated that we may now be on the threshold of a new kind of genetic takeover .
14 He was a happy and contented member of a new kind of club , and since the last thing Ken wanted to do was join a club , it was a measure of his new triumph that he became part of this one .
15 The investigations in the 1930s also gave one of the earliest hints of a new kind of cellular defence mechanism against viruses .
16 The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years .
17 Much remains to be learned of their activities , but what is certain is that they had converts in high places — notably Edward Wood ( of whom more anon ) , Leo Amery , and Lord Hailey of African Survey fame and immense Colonial Office influence — and that through their publication of a journal widely respected for its seriousness they kept before the eyes of the political establishment the idea of a new kind of empire .
18 Yet the utter transcendence and separation of the Other remained a vital mystical theme : mystics warned their co-religionists against the dangers of human projection and the creation of a new kind of idolatry by confusing ideas , concepts and doctrines of ‘ God ’ or the Absolute with the ineffable Reality itself .
19 With the emphasis switching to control over production , to quality , and to quite massive and well-orchestrated publicity campaigns there was less need to rely on the shock value of a new kind of film .
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