Example sentences of "[adj] kind [prep] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 2 | In such circumstances , some kind of compromise or attempt to reach a consensus may often be the most democratic as well as the most prudent course . |
| 3 | Nothing breaches the flatness except some kind of smokestack or cooling tower a couple of miles to the north . |
| 4 | ‘ The Maori once regarded the dolphin as some kind of God or influence to direct them to things they wanted to know . |
| 5 | Use the runny kind of honey or mix some water with the stiffer kind to make it runny . |
| 6 | Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style . |
| 7 | Mr Foster also called on the region 's chairman Peter Carr to issue a statement clarifying the position , adding : ‘ So far the NRH has failed to provide any kind of explanation or issue any credible public statement . |
| 8 | But there is a whole range of other situations where the opposite move is needed , where we need to stress that people can differ from us , for instance over proposals to give all children the same kind of education or to make everybody live in the same kind of house . |
| 9 | There was a weird kind of shading or tattooing around the lids of each man 's eyes and Rostov thought that the eyes themselves were oddly shaped . |