Example sentences of "of the kind of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that when it 's expressed in terms of the kind of real conditions of child sexual abuse and rape and sexual harassment and domestic violence and getting paid half the amount of money that men get paid and not having any reproductive rights and sterilisation abuse — these really basic issues that feminism has addressed . |
| 2 | The French investors are starved of the kind of new issues common to the British market -big , well-publicised privatisations or pseudo-privatisations aimed more at the general punter than the institutional investor . |
| 3 | Doctors ' desires to advance specialisms that they find intellectually exciting , university lecturers pursuing research at the expense of their teaching commitments , engineers wishing to develop technologically advanced products such as Concorde , are just a few examples of the kind of professional aspirations that lead to the misallocation of resources from the clients ' or taxpayers ' point of view . |
| 4 | He argues that the language of folk psychology ( talk about ‘ beliefs ’ , ‘ desires ’ and the like ) may float free of the kind of mental states that actually do the computational work : these are defined solely by their syntax and causal role , not by their reference . |
| 5 | I am therefore not Christian not least for the sake of the kind of human relationships which I want to see flourish . |
| 6 | Duties are specific to each profession or kind of work , whereas wishes are in general a reflection in the working context of the kinds of personal values that people hold . |
| 7 | Typical examples of the kinds of ritual practices that are commonly observed include : ( i ) dietary and sexual abstinence before hunting , ( ii ) visionary experiences induced by drugs or fasting , ( iii ) ritual purification of hunter and weapons before hunting , ( iv ) offering of formal apology/excuse to the slain animal — blame-shifting , ( v ) offering of tokens of appeasement — food , tobacco , etc. — to the slain animal , ( vi ) ceremonial treatment of carcass — verbal flattery and solemnity , ( vii ) rules determining who may eat animals ' flesh ( which may include abstention by hunter and/or his entire kin group ) , ( viii ) avoidance of waste , ( ix ) avoidance of boasting , ( x ) ritual disposal of uneatable or unusable remains , and ( xi ) post-hunting purification of the hunter and/or his weapons ( see e.g. Frazer , 1922 ; Hallowell , 1926 ; Benedict , 1929 ; Speck , 1977 ; Campbell , 1984 ; Serpell , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |
| 9 | The variations that are significant are distinguished from those that are superfluous by appealing to our theoretical knowledge of the situation and of the kinds of physical mechanisms operative . |
| 10 | From these it is possible to glean strong indications of the kinds of educational records that will predispose candidates to perform well . |
| 11 | In either case , there will eventually be a need for the consideration of the kinds of human operators required and how they are to be selected and trained . |