Example sentences of "type of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridgeman was , according to his obituary , ‘ an admirable type of the English country gentleman … ( who ) did much … for the Church , for education , especially in rural districts , for the Navy … , for agriculture … and for sport , particularly for his favourite game of cricket ’ . |
| 2 | The person I saw that morning in the sunny gallery of the Palacio de Anaya reminded me of James Dean , not so much in physical appearance , though they were alike in presenting the essence of a certain youthful American type of the period , as in an instant personal magnetism , a cocksure and irresistible sexual charm . |
| 3 | Whether he really existed or not , he stands as a type of the most bloodthirsty and battle-frenzied of Celtic warriors . |
| 4 | At the time it was found that a major drawback in dual-purpose cattle was that they often failed to breed true : the offspring tended towards either the beef or the dairy type of the breed 's dual-purpose spectrum , partly because of breeders ' preferences but partly , it was believed , because the dual-purpose breeds were effectively hybrids : if they had begun to show too great an emphasis on dairy characteristics , extreme beef sires were introduced to draw them back to their dual-purpose role , and likewise extreme dairy sires were used when they became too beefy . |
| 5 | The NRF had originated from a combination of Swedish Red-and-Whites crossed to Ayrshires ( imported since the 1860s ) , and by 1960 it had absorbed the graded-up Red Trondheim ( a horned breed from Ayrshires crossed to local cattle between 1850 and 1891 ) and the Hedmark , another local type of the Swedish Red-and-White . |
| 6 | It was formed by uniting the colour-sided Blacksided Trondheim with the old Nordland breed in 1943 , and the coat is basically white with black ( or sometimes red ) points and freckling on the sides , often merging to give the colour-sided type of the cline ( see Genetics section ) . |
| 7 | The breed originated from the Jutland Black Pied , which was known a century ago as a hardier but less productive type of the black pied lowland group and had been bred in Denmark for a very long time . |
| 8 | It features prominently in Dombey and Son , notably with reference to the upheaval its coming causes in neighbourhoods like Staggs 's Gardens in London ( DS 6 , 15 ) where Mr Toodle the engine-stoker lives ; to Mr Dombey 's rail journey to Leamington ( DS 20 ) in which the railway engine seems ‘ a type of the triumphant monster , Death ’ ; and to Carker 's horrible death by falling under a train ( DS 55 ) . |
| 9 | Sparrowhawks are still widely distributed breeding birds in Sussex , the only major habitat type of the county in which they do not breed being the coastal plain . |
| 10 | I acquired the relapsing type of the disease there , together with 11 000 other troops of the British Eighth Army , during the Second World War ; in the six-week campaign in the summer of 1943 , malaria accounted for many more casualties than the battles . |
| 11 | Was he the type of the world into which they had so unthinkingly plunged ? |
| 12 | This can only mean that the University Press at Oxford kept the type of the second edition standing for over fifty years , or else had a large number of the second edition sheets left over and stored . |
| 13 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
| 14 | Cyril Connolly 's quarterly Horizon died in December 1949 , after a ten-year run : the very type of the pure literary review , but unable to thrive , apparently , in austerity Britain . |
| 15 | The basic species type of the Musk rose , Rosa moschaia originates from southern Europe , has white-yellow blooms , and can easily reach 30ft ( 9m ) high . |
| 16 | Siderophile abundances in these spherules are consistent with extraterrestrial origin from a single object , but are insufficient to determine the type of the Tunguska object . |
| 17 | Details of the type of the room , rates and equipment remain permanently in the rack . |
| 18 | In many cases enclosure maps later Ordnance Survey maps and air photographs taken before 1950 are now the only record of a relatively short-lived type of the English landscape . |
| 19 | The value and dignity of German Hellenism , therefore , lay in " reclaiming the soil of antiquity " and strengthening Germany 's " bond with the Greeks " , the " highest type of the species " man " so far achieved " . |
| 20 | This process of convergence to the full information steady state also reduces the rate at which the B t 's learn the type of the A's . |
| 21 | Here blood tests will confirm the type of the infection and determine the treatment . |
| 22 | We should not be misled by any temptation to assume that what we are dealing with here is the familiar disposition of many words , mentioned above , to vary in their referential effect according to the standard considered relevant for the type of the noun ; as if , to take the last sentence in ( 34 ) it was simply a matter of adjusting our standard of what counts as old from the range suitable for schools to the smaller one which is appropriate to individual human beings . |
| 23 | It is likely that our case represents the sporadic type of the disorder , in the absence of any family history . |
| 24 | The multivariate analysis showed significantly increased synthesis of LTB 4 in NSAID users , however , compared with controls independent of the degree or type of the accompanying gastritis . |
| 25 | MODULE-TYPE-IS defines the type of the module . |
| 26 | The type of the media item , represented by a number in the range 1 to 10 . |
| 27 | Francis Place was the very type of the journeyman striver after independence and status , but he held off less reputable associations at only arm 's length . |
| 28 | As the type of the Negro [ wrote the Anthropological Review ] is foetal , so that of the Mongol is infantile . |
| 29 | Research then , which is really the , erm , the the the type of the whole topic today . |
| 30 | A vaccine was recently launched to protect against one type of the disease … |