Example sentences of "kind [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essential that we should maintain both our sensitivity and our effectiveness , if we are to protect and watch over the interests of the people we work for and provide the kind of services they need . |
| 2 | Most people are keen for their children to be educated but despair at the kind of education they receive . |
| 3 | Individuals and families differ considerably in what kind of education they want for their children and what kind of care for their dependants . |
| 4 | Beside this deliberate , purposive teaching the author has set a second kind of education which is just as moving and as important to the story . |
| 5 | Raymond Williams puts it like this : it was argued that man 's spiritual health depended on a kind of education which was more than a training for some specialized work , a kind variously described as ‘ liberal ’ , ‘ humane ’ or ‘ cultural ’ . |
| 6 | Beginning with education , there is general agreement that it is not just any kind of education which will encourage economic growth . |
| 7 | The first , however , is even more important if we are to avoid the kind of education which merely confirms and therefore helps to perpetuate — an unequal status quo . |
| 8 | For instance Bantu Education which the government encourages , is an effort to re-tribalize us ; to introduce an inferior kind of education which uses a lot of the African dialects , ostensibly to create a kind of pride in our culture , our languages . |
| 9 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 10 | Er well on on a this kind of level I mean |
| 11 | Because this relationship is so significant and its effects are so far-reaching , perhaps it would be a good idea to stop and consider what kind of parent or what kind of child you are . |
| 12 | This is the kind of question which has no answer , since no difference between commitment and rhetoric will be discernable until refugees are faced with a real choice between some kind of a settlement falling short of the ideal and holding out for the ideal itself . |
| 13 | She did n't know if they had given themselves sufficient time to think things over before they married — that was the kind of question her sister Louise asked . |
| 14 | These are constitutive luck — the kind of person one is ; contemporary circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances in which one is placed ; antecedent circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances which led up to the situation one faces ; and consequential luck — the way things turn out . |
| 15 | The wine , though Richard was not the kind of person whom the sommelier kept waiting , was not particularly good . |
| 16 | We must know what we want , what kind of person we want to meet , and go straight for them . " |
| 17 | Just the kind of person we want at St Basil 's . ’ |
| 18 | These are companies which specialise in assisting a client in clarifying what kind of person they need and how to locate him within the potentially suitable worker population . |
| 19 | ‘ If every dog is marked at birth and registered , the kind of person who wants to throw out a dog onto a motorway will seek to remove the identifying mark — it does n't take a moment with a Stanley knife to remove an ear tattoo , or to use a drop of acid to burn off a brand . |
| 20 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 21 | ‘ He is the kind of person who thrives on arguments , he could start an argument in an empty house . ’ |
| 22 | Tim Renton is obviously the kind of person who would turn the volume down on a Johnny Mathis 78 . |
| 23 | I ca n't say that I looked too far ahead , probably because I 'm the kind of person who lives for today . |
| 24 | If you 're not the kind of person who is used to daydreaming , try a simple one first . |
| 25 | You are the kind of person who likes to get to the hands-on stage as soon as possible in the learning cycle . |
| 26 | You are the kind of person who likes to understand how things work and how they are put together . |
| 27 | I 'm not the kind of person who is afraid of letting a woman take charge professionally , personally — or sexually . |
| 28 | You may be the kind of person who finds it easier to have sex than to talk about it , whether with new or regular partners . |
| 29 | The designer needs to know about the tasks which his new device is intended to aid and also about the kind of person who will use it . |
| 30 | Later , the presence , or even the existence , of the people we care about may not be necessary for their influence to apply , for we may retain the desire to be the kind of person who would have won their affection and approval . |