Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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1 | The Darwinians assumed that this kind of coloration had been developed by natural selection . |
2 | Some kind of decision had been reached . |
3 | This kind of repetition has been a method of construction used by composers from Franck , through the French Impressionists , to such as Delius and Lennox Berkeley , and Ravel found it so fruitful that phrase repetition runs through entire movements of his music : In this example the melody does not change on repetition , and Ravel uses the technique to create a series of semi-static periods . |
4 | But can we then be quite sure that at a later stage , when the same kind of performance has been taken out of the service and then out of the church , the signal is unambiguously to ‘ art ’ ? |
5 | That kind of art has been forbidden since 1932 . |
6 | ‘ This is the first time this kind of survey has been done . |
7 | The kind of service devised was shaped by a number of different beliefs about community care , about the services available , and about the needs of dementia sufferers . |
8 | Only very gradually did a small number of educated critics come to see that although quite different from the Russian and European film the Hollywood and Hollywood-inspired film had developed its own qualities and that the great mass audience for that kind of entertainment had been responding quite genuinely to positive influence . |
9 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |
10 | The same kind of damage has been described for the golden eagle feeding on roe deer ( Ratcliffe & Rowe , 1979 ) : when it penetrates the carcase through the shoulder region , it breaks through the scapula so as to extract the soft internal organs . |
11 | This kind of universalism has been strengthened more recently by the work of Braverman ( 1974 ) who argued that ‘ Taylorism ’ represents the essence of capitalist management , the profoundly anti-democratic invariant to be found within all branches of capitalist production , imposed by the rationality of profit . |
12 | If some kind of bias has been introduced , how can we know what it is ? |
13 | In the past , each kind of unit has been expressed in a rather different way , by means of a different type of unit specification , or module descriptor . |
14 | And it must be flexible — defining the kind of flexibility required is difficult , but it is clear that an entirely rigid system is impractical . |
15 | This kind of criticism has been made by the writers mentioned above , and has also been amplified by Rowbotham et al . |
16 | The choreographer must decide what kind of subject has been chosen . |
17 | In human pathology , this kind of mutation has been correlated with severe diseases such as the Kearns-Sayre syndrome , but the mutant strain , does not seem to be affected by the mutation ( 1 ) . |
18 | ‘ I understood from you , Morgan , some kind of alert had been sent out . |
19 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
20 | ‘ The security requirements for those holding any kind of firearm have been increased considerably and these are rigorously enforced by the police . |
21 | Charles thought that the whole affair was now out of his hands , and , though it was unsatisfactory that so many questions remained unanswered , at least some kind of justice had been done . |
22 | Teaching is almost always by the expository method of demonstration and description , and the kind of learning involved is at a lower level of the hierarchy . |
23 | Erm most of the i involvement I 've ever had in any kind of job has been by accident . |
24 | The type of research which this kind of geology necessitates is careful , painstaking fieldwork , covering large areas of difficult terrain , and it is only by long-term work involving many individuals that the answers to the problems can be found . |
25 | The kind of representation used is very important , since different representations will make different aspects of the search space more or less apparent . |
26 | ‘ What kind of thing to say is that ! ’ said Gloria . |
27 | This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes . |
28 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
29 | The traditional post-war argument between different kinds of interventionism has been replaced by a much broader debate . |
30 | In these experiments , two kinds of learning have been shown to be possible in a nervous system with fixed cell numbers and connections , by altering the effectiveness of synapses . |