Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally important to guard against , on the Tory side , is the idea that Mr Major must now be regarded as some kind of superman . |
| 2 | Yet in painting , colour is regularly treated as some kind of mystery , beyond out understanding . |
| 3 | For light loads you may be comfortable with a simple padded back system , but many people will opt for some kind of frame at this stage . |
| 4 | Both sides appeared keen to work for some kind of reconciliation , although how much of their willingness to co-operate was purely political was never made clear . |
| 5 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It looks like some kind of begging-letter . |
| 7 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |
| 8 | ‘ Looks like some kind of a machine , ’ he admitted , fumbling for levers without taking his eyes off the screen . |
| 9 | A line of pikemen must have looked like some kind of rampaging porcupine . ’ |
| 10 | You 'd see them being sucked into some kind of centre and disappearing … ’ |
| 11 | The discoveries mentioned there of some of the world 's best mathematicians should whet the appetite for , and also place in some kind of perspective , the mathematics covered in Chapters 1 through 6 . |
| 12 | We have to come to some kind of deal with the trade unions in this complex interim period . |
| 13 | ‘ All the same , it makes sense to come to some kind of agreement about this . |
| 14 | Oh well , you know No , I do n't think that , but I think that you have to I mean there has to some kind of relationship between I 'm not saying it 's anything to do with the personalities or anything like that but |
| 15 | She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems . |
| 16 | These more strident attitudes expressed in properly speaking ethical statements are ways of being in favour of or against types of behaviour with a degree of force which makes us wish disfavoured actions discouraged by some kind of social sanction . |
| 17 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 're looking for some kind of … counselling , ’ says Riva , ‘ I 'll ask my father if he knows of anyone who … ’ |
| 19 | I tore along the beach like a maniac , looking for some kind of boat I could borrow to get away . |
| 20 | Presumably the replicators act as some kind of mould or template . |
| 21 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 22 | The Workshops were a huddle of black , rather low structures ; made of some kind of harsh , dark stone . |
| 23 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 24 | Economic prosperity and satisfaction led many , perhaps , to look rather benignly upon Hallstein 's activist Commission and not to be unduly worried by the possibility of it developing into some kind of European government . |
| 25 | Now , you were out driving with your brother and you drove into some kind of storm . |
| 26 | ‘ You feel good being nominated for an Oscar , then you get turned into some kind of a loser when you do n't win . |
| 27 | Or were we tapping into some kind of general biochemical mechanism relevant to all types of learning ? |
| 28 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 29 | In other words , farmers must know the results of the negotiations and must not be left to wonder in some kind of vacuum how the negotiations will affect their income . |
| 30 | Moreover , the notion of art 's ‘ single supersession ’ , an histrionic claim , would benefit from some kind of historical and theoretical contextualisation . |