Example sentences of "kind of [noun] as [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But a bat uses its sound information for very much the same kind of purpose as we use our visual information .
2 He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato .
3 ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month .
4 ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month .
5 He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman .
6 Yet , perhaps because the eye and elbow joint develop in the same kind of way as our own eyes and elbows develop , a building process for which we , inside our mothers , claim no credit , we are illogically more impressed by the house .
7 In fact , if anything , we 're going to be doing less and less of that kind of music as we go along .
8 you know , that G P's that 's been practising for a long number of years you know er , elderly G P's are probably not as up-to-date on these kind of things as they should be .
9 Do you do anything special on a Sunday or do you eat the same kind of things as you eat a normal day ?
10 All she is asking for , she says , is to live the same kind of life as everyone else .
11 All the same , mathematics learners do not always seem to gain as much from this kind of work as one might expect ; maybe present syllabuses provide a barrier ?
12 It is the same kind of calculation as we did for haemoglobin , and it produces a similarly large result .
13 It should be appreciated , however , that exactly the same kind of analysis as we shall develop here could be made equally revealingly of practical , everyday communism , Christianity , the apartheid philosophy of white South Africa , l the delusions of the mentally ill , or , as Ernest Gellner so tellingly shows , contemporary linguistic philosophy.2 So while our quest to understand the mysteries of witchcraft may take us deep into the inaccessible jungles of distant continents , we shall regularly encounter disconcertingly familiar images showing how dose to home we really are .
14 I would imagine that Shereen would apply the same kind of pattern as you did to the de-toxification centre meeting , Shereen , and I felt that there were a great many people there , a great many interested , including the voluntary interest .
15 And do you think they all came from the same kind of background as yourself or were they more working people ?
16 They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces .
17 Travelling with yaks needs a certain kind of nerve as they can be mean and quarrelsome animals : perhaps that is why Peter Somerville-Large named the two hairy four-foots who allowed him to travel with them through Nepal and Tibet , Mucker and Sod .
18 INDUSTRIAL SALESPERSON : We have helped a number of companies in the same kind of business as you are in to achieve considerable savings by the use of our stock control procedures .
19 The flurry is caused by the arrival of an old car , of a type that retains a kind of dignity as it ages .
20 We were always out there looking for something new , trying to find any slight glimmer of someone with the same kind of ideas as us .
21 Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do .
22 Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first .
23 Now when one goes , there tends to be a sameness which can be a bit of a let down , that you find much the same kind of thing as you would find in a church in Brighton or Lewes going on in Naples , and I do n't know quite how long this will last .
24 ‘ I think it might be a reaction but I think we 'll find they do all different kinds of music as they go on .
25 1 Did you enjoy reading more , or less ? 2 Did you read different kinds of book as you got older ? 3 Did you read comics ? 4 Did you read information books ? 5 Did you have reading tests ? 6 Did you have any favourite books or authors ? 7 Did you have any hates or fears to do with reading ?
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