Example sentences of "some kind of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some kind of explosion at the clinic and all the staff got wiped out . |
| 2 | Some of these techniques are for use specifically with patients having , or suspected of having , some kind of damage to the brain . |
| 3 | In this case , the DCSL exercised some kind of influence at the point of selection and provided some help with cataloguing and processing of the new resources once purchased . |
| 4 | Just because she 's read some trashy paperback she thinks she 's some kind of expert on the modus operandi . |
| 5 | If the housing market is some kind of barometer for the rest of the economy , it may be time for a mile sigh of relief . |
| 6 | It is generally elicited only by stimuli that are both infrequent ( or improbable ) and significant in the sense that they require some kind of response by the subject . |
| 7 | Its partners had probably accepted that they would have to acquiesce to some kind of compromise within the package deal . |
| 8 | We can also legitimately ask to what extent people are rational in the sense of making some kind of calculation concerning the best way to satisfy their needs . |
| 9 | Or if an adult hospital patient with young children is known to be terminally ill , it should be possible to provide some kind of support for the spouse and the children in preparation for their loss , in order that they may work through their grief and come to terms with their new situation . |
| 10 | From the point of view of prevention , this suggests that when a lack of care arises in the context of marital separation or parental death , some kind of support for the single parent may be particularly valuable . |
| 11 | The Chairmaster , grave , imposing , and bald as a biscuit , apart from the red wig , adhering by a miracle to his left ear , was attempting to give some kind of order to the proceedings . |
| 12 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 13 | The " smaller " systems of hypernumbers introduced were put into some kind of order by the American B Peirce in a paper published posthumously in 1881 . |
| 14 | Still clinging to the maxim that work , particularly physical labour , could eclipse mental turmoil , she had gone out , determined to wrest some kind of order from the chaos of neglect . |
| 15 | The network of shires and hundreds brought royal government to all landowners of any substance , and must have acted as some kind of counter-weight to the influence of local lords and feelings of local separatism . |
| 16 | ‘ Every evening , the living room gets converted into some kind of camp by the children and smeared in food and footprints , ’ she laughs , ‘ but what 's the point of a home if you have to be precious with it ? ’ |
| 17 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 18 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 19 | Perhaps it 's erm some kind of mistake in the way erm cells divide after they 've been fertilized , I do n't know , but this is not true of fraternal twinning . |
| 20 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 21 | The Karens were animists , feeling some kind of presence in the forest , the spring or the great banyan tree . |
| 22 | During the autumn and winter keep the compost from drying out completely , which means providing some kind of protection over the plant . |
| 23 | see like , see like some kind of spots for the past few |
| 24 | Have seen in Leo Maxse the epitome of the ‘ radical right ’ in Britain before 1914 — radical right' being taken to mean ‘ extreme ’ right or some kind of proto-Fascism on the continental model . |
| 25 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 26 | It is , of course , being assumed here that there is some kind of relationship between the qualification level and the nature of the work . |
| 27 | Well I just wonder you , there has got to be some kind of relationship between the fact that most people who take drugs live in really run down deprived areas . |
| 28 | If you 're in some kind of jam with the law , I might not get paid . |
| 29 | Some kind of assessment of the competence of teachers was seen as a way of weeding out those who were incompetent : a reaction to severe cuts in education ( along with the effects of falling rolls ) , and the need to thin out the teaching force . |
| 30 | From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood . |