Example sentences of "[art] kind of [noun] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method has to be handled with a great deal of care since the danger is that it will result in exactly the kind of antagonism which the salesperson is wishing to avoid . |
| 2 | In Wimsatt 's definition irony is a ‘ cognitive principle which shades off through paradox into the general principle of metaphor ’ ( Wimsatt and Brooks 1957 : 747 ) ; according to Brooks , it is the ‘ most general term that we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context ’ ( Brooks 1949 : 191 ) . |
| 3 | The kind of planning which the FBI had in mind — ‘ indicative planning ’ involving the gathering and exchange of information on the development of the economy and the improvement of co-ordination , rather than the formulation and compulsory implementation of a central plan — had already been attempted under the Tories with the formation of the National Economic Development Council ( NEDC ) in 1962 but had effectively remained subordinated to conventional stop-go demand management practice : Labour promised a form of planning which would be ‘ purposeful ’ and ‘ effective ’ , which would ‘ have teeth in it somewhere ’ ( Budd , 1978 , Chapter 6 ) . |
| 4 | The Glasgow Film Society , headed by Charles Oakley , was the largest in Europe and had indicated a certain demand already existed in Glasgow for the kind of films which the Curzon and Academy Cinemas showed in London . |
| 5 | Because to put it in the kind of terms which the man would best understand , the book is a monumental cock-up . |
| 6 | However , there are other less ambitious examples of the kind of information which the accounts could provide about inputs but which is not provided by cash flow accounting . |
| 7 | After considerable deliberations , a great deal of attention , many discussions with the various parties concerned — no doubt the kind of conference which the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) so naively believes will produce a solution — the committee came forward with the only viable solution , total deregulation of Sunday trading . |
| 8 | This was the kind of dilemma which the American philosopher Jerry Fodor faced up to in his important book The Language of Thought . |
| 9 | It provides the kind of record which the CBI argues , in its recent report ‘ Towards a Skills Revolution ’ , should be a feature of all vocational education and training systems . |
| 10 | Although it is fashionable to talk about its value ‘ for its own sake ’ , what prompts the theorising is the strong and well-founded belief that the experiences of childhood affect the kind of adult which the child turns out to be . |
| 11 | An answer can only be given in the kind of perspective which the processes of East-West reconciliation and arms control may , in any case , create : a perspective in which the strategic factors progressively diminish in importance , until the 19 Soviet divisions now stationed in the GDR have no more significance than a knight or bishop stranded on a square of a chessboard which no longer figures in the game . |
| 12 | Consequently , for She may own a Porsche , the following diagram can be proposed : The relation is the same for She may leave tomorrow except that the actualization of the infinitive 's event would be future ( if it is realized at all ) : The role of the modal auxiliaries is thus to specify the kind of potentiality which the potential event expressed by the infinitive has — possibility , probability , necessity , etc. — and the type of coincidence involved here is that between an event conceived as a potentiality and the form of potentiality which it is conceived as having , i.e. between two potentialities . |
| 13 | He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest . |