Example sentences of "kind of [noun] service " in BNC.
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| 1 | The office of collector was a valuable one , and it was regarded as an attractive prize by gentlemen in need of an improved cash flow , for temporary custody of tax revenues and the ability to make some use of such funds for short-term personal advantage was one of the great attractions of any kind of government service which brought an individual into contact with money . |
| 2 | Seeking to ensure that people are seen to live in pleasant , ordinary homes , are seen to drive in ordinary vehicles ( not Sunshine buses , for example ) , go on ordinary holidays ( not with large groups of other people who also have handicaps ) , wear attractive clothes , have attractive hairstyles , receive the same kind of support services as other people , and now , with social role valorisation ( Wolfensberger , 1983 ) be seen to have appropriate , valued roles in society ; seeking all this begins to sound dangerously close to a marketing strategy . |
| 3 | This kind of specialist service has , solicitor James Whelan believes , made the difference between success and failure for himself and his wife in finding an ideal base in Devon to come back to from Dubai , where they lived since 1985 . |
| 4 | What was needed was the kind of laws and regulations , and tax structure , that would make the market society work , or allow it to work , and the kind of state services — defence , and even military expansion , education , sanitation , and various sorts of assistance to industry , such as tariffs and grants for railway development that were thought necessary to make the system run efficiently and profitably . |
| 5 | He had no time for the over-solicitous kind of welfare service which consists largely of unnecessarily doing for the deaf those things which , given a lead , they can well do for themselves . |
| 6 | Why , asked the Prince , was Britain the only country in Europe that did not have some kind of community service . |
| 7 | The armed guards who ride the patrol vans day and night , a kind of AA service with guns , are dressed in black-and-yellow uniforms and wear black , rubber police boots . |
| 8 | Prestel is a new kind of information service used by customers in Britain and overseas . |
| 9 | WE HAVE BECOME so guilty about our reading habits that sooner or later there will be some kind of counselling service available . |
| 10 | Matins has almost wholly disappeared and its substitute in Anglican worship is often some kind of family service , common also in the Free Churches , and generally of the ‘ hymn-sandwich ’ variety . |