Example sentences of "kind [prep] [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of name that saves me a lot of typing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher instantly fired back , saying : ‘ the kind of policies that restore our fortune and reputation in the world ’ . |
| 4 | Canetti 's great foe is death and his belief in the power of words to fight it is some kind of myth that motivates his pen . |
| 5 | ‘ This is my ghost ! ’ he would openly announce , in the kind of voice that enabled him to give an inimitable rendering of the handbag speech in The Importance of Being Earnest . |
| 6 | That 's the kind of concept that interests me . |
| 7 | In a way , I think it was a kind of pride that did it . |
| 8 | To leave the enemy without hope is to make him more dangerous in the way that a cornered rat , the kind of vermin that robbed our granaries , will leap a fantastic height into the air to sink his incisors in your cheek . |
| 9 | Ashley , meanwhile , shatters any possible pretensions towards cool by claiming that Simon & Garfunkel , The Beatles and Prefab Sprout 's ‘ Steve McQueen ’ is the kind of music that uplifts him . |
| 10 | That approach builds teamwork and self-reliance and far from being a cost to the company is a benefit — unless it happens to be the kind of company that requires its employees to operate as autonomous automata . |
| 11 | It is also not the kind of company that throws its money around so it must be confident making some on Unix . |
| 12 | Zitney fixed her with the kind of look that made her feel electric all over . |
| 13 | How can I avoid seeing that it is this kind of government that threatens my grandchildren ? ’ |
| 14 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 15 | It was this kind of evidence that led us to use the social network model in a systematic way : as Ballymacarrett is the most stable and well-established of the communities , we can conclude that the social conditions there are favourable to the emergence of a close-knit network structure of the kind often found in low-status communities ( Young and Wilmott , 1962 ) , and there is ample ethnographic evidence that a close-knit structure of this kind is capable of imposing normative consensus on its members . |
| 16 | I did a degree in Economics , and erm the first kind of history that interested me was really rather meticulous and careful and detailed economic history . |
| 17 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 18 | While the withdrawal of Peter Elliott and Tom McKean weakened the European Relays competition held in tandem with a field event international match between Britain , Italy and Hungary , the Tynesider took it upon himself to elevate the proceedings with the kind of form that suggests he could challenge for an Olympic triple jump medal in Barcelona in two months ' time . |
| 19 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 20 | It was abhorrence of waste of any kind of resource that motivated him . |
| 21 | You could almost say there 's a kind of rule that says you ought to write in fairly free verse nowadays and that you 're making a kind of statement if you do n't . |
| 22 | The player , who scored last weekend on his comeback against Partick Thistle , might dwell on the advancement that has recently been made by someone like Eoin Jess , however , and reason that he would be well advised to channel all his energies towards regaining the kind of status that had him as part of Scotland 's European championship squad eight months ago . |
| 23 | The essential beauty showed through everywhere , and gave him a kind of timelessness that matched his movements . |
| 24 | Yet his Concertino of 1920 is a work of historic importance for the clear way in which it marks the connection between his early Russian style and the kind of neoclassicism that occupied him thereafter . |
| 25 | The 24-valve straight six M50 unit is a simply gorgeous thing to see , with throttle response sharp enough to draw blood , urge aplenty for safe fourth-gear overtaking , a cultured yet appealingly guttural engine note and the kind of smoothness that makes you question the worth of even a good V12 . |
| 26 | You should aim to avoid every kind of distraction that takes your mind away from your work . |
| 27 | He held the door open and as she passed through he said something under his breath and touched her very lightly on the shoulder — a caressing kind of touch that caused her to give an involuntary shiver . |
| 28 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 29 | It may not occur ; pupils may be resilient enough to deal with negative social encounters themselves , or may have the kind of personality that makes them unlikely to arise . |
| 30 | There was something there — a kind of hatred that shocked him . |