Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was the kind of question that demanded an answer . |
| 3 | The kind of name that saves me a lot of typing . |
| 4 | P. E. ‘ Bucks ’ was the ordinary police talk for the working man or yobbo — the unruly kind of person that hung round street corners . |
| 5 | Oh , I 'm not suggesting that these groups , if they come together and mix will cause problems , I 'm suggesting that if there is only one kind of person that 's attracted to a particular site and that type of person happens to be socially irresponsible , then then you 're it 's a recipe for disaster , is n't it ? |
| 6 | if if the stories of are to be believed , and who would doubt him , is that the kind of person that wants as an ambassador in Europe ? |
| 7 | That 's not the kind of vision that distinguishes people . |
| 8 | Historians have correctly pointed out that to understand the kind of exchange that took place between Huxley and Wilberforce it is important to recognize that a major social transformation was taking place in which the clergy were losing their domination of the intellectual life of the nation . |
| 9 | He was manipulating a kind of toggle or switch on the head of his cane . |
| 10 | He was one of these comparative anthropologists , he was n't the kind of anthropologist that goes out and lives with er , primitive people for several years , and then comes back and writes an account of them . |
| 11 | It was thus impossible to make the kind of pact that had been made with Clovis in France . |
| 12 | The bolt-rig generally incorporates a hair-rig , or at least some kind of rig that entails the exposure of most of the hook point and gape . |
| 13 | It 's the kind of angle that makes us look at the space of the room that 's being photographed and the arrangement of objects in the room rather than the subjective viewpoint of the picture taker — recalling the very beginnings of photography when it was a simple recording device , and before it was considered a means of expression , when it sometimes did n't strive to imitate painting . |
| 14 | These include , first , any calls for a radical restructuring of society in which new structures and processes of government are sought which would significantly alter the balance between governors and governed ; second , calls for greater priority to be given to social , community and ecological factors in decision-making and lower priority to be given to economic and technological factors which are geared towards reproducing or sustaining the kind of society that exists at present ; and , third , calls for a significant change in defence policy , for example , a renunciation of nuclear weapons , neutralism or disengagement from military alliances such as NATO ( McAuslan , 1980 , p. 6 ) . |
| 15 | Because she 'd never fallen in love , the head-over-heels , with-all-your-heart kind of love that made a woman 's world centre on one man for the rest of her life . |
| 16 | Erm you know , some people would say you know , er seeing the kind of publicity that has had , that it would be it might be quite risky to er to o open the business of a building society here . |
| 17 | ‘ We do not need that kind of publicity and do not want to be involved in that sort of thing . |
| 18 | Hollywood had always been able to recruit actors who could authentically depict urban working men and by the end of the silent era Bickford and Beery had almost achieved perfection in suggesting that kind of independence that grew out of a tough upbringing and an even tougher manhood . |
| 19 | I , like many other married women , hope to achieve some kind of independence and do n't want to rely on my husband for everything all the time . |
| 20 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 21 | True , the business about the dancer in the Thames sounded a bit too melodramatic — the kind of story that gets embroidered over the years — and probably started out just as an unfortunate coincidence . |
| 22 | It was the kind of story that had brought an endless succession of journalists and film crews to Liverpool throughout the turbulent Militant-in-control years of the 1980s . |
| 23 | Those who ‘ have a way with animals ’ are essentially kind of heart and wish them no ill — a mental vibration to which both animals and humans respond with trust . |
| 24 | Down on the studio floor the mood can be likened to the kind of calm that precedes a storm . |
| 25 | It seems reasonable to suppose that there differences in the kind of provision that needs to be made by each of these stages of teacher formation . |
| 26 | She stammers a kind of apology and wriggles up the bed so her face touches mine . |
| 27 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |
| 28 | Our aim this time is to free the exhibition from its ball and chain , abolishing any kind of categorisation and seeking a natural relationship between the spectator and art not a contemplative relationship but an active one trying to create complicity between the work of art and its beneficiary . |
| 29 | Only four minutes had elapsed when Paul Stewart , used in an emergency striker 's role in place of Israeli Ronny Rosenthal , was chopped from behind by Eric Young — the kind of treatment that enraged Souness . |
| 30 | Relatives are often fearful of complaining lest there is a backlash in the kind of treatment or care the family member receives . |