Example sentences of "kind that have " in BNC.

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1 Kensal Green then was an old-fashioned , tight-knit working class community , the kind that had survived through thick and thin since Victoria was on the throne and that nowadays only exists in sociology textbooks and TV soaps .
2 The bomb had a barometric trigger of the kind that had been used to bomb aircraft before .
3 A senior academic was arrested ‘ for carrying unsigned tracts ’ of a kind that had been circulating throughout the city for a month .
4 Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow .
5 Empson was not a scholar , and hardly wished to be one , though he respected scholarship — especially the kind that had once produced the Oxford English Dictionary to provide others with a godsent place to start a critical argument .
6 It was not a friendship of the kind that had been so frequent in Anselm 's early life .
7 Yet after that crisis Edward 's political skills , together with the popularity of the war , enabled the king to maintain the flow of funds for the war without provoking opposition of the kind that had arisen in 1297 or 1339–41 .
8 The Statute of Treason , passed in 1352 , set out a limited definition of the crime , and implicitly excluded from its scope political offences of the kind that had brought so many families to destruction between 1322 and 1330 .
9 To this extent he can be seen as supporting a synthesizing discourse of the kind that had been increasingly welcomed by the Review of English Studies during the second half of the 1930s .
10 There was clearly some basis here for irredentist disputes of a kind that had become familiar in interwar Europe .
11 The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations .
12 And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . "
13 It holds that groups defined as ‘ nations ’ have the right to , and therefore ought to , form territorial states of the kind that have become standard since the French Revolution .
14 He was elderly , bald , very thin , wearing a striped shirt of the kind that have detachable collars .
15 The second point to note about the Ellis and Bowerman surveys is that neither was concerned with cases of really outstanding creativity , of the kind that have been the subject of individual biographical analyses .
16 It is arms races of this kind that have been mainly responsible for the apparently progressive quality of evolution , for the evolution of ever-improved running speed , flying skill , acuity of eyesight , keenness of hearing , and so on .
17 ‘ I ca n't bear those two who run it — English gentlewomen with a vengeance , I always think — the kind that have made England what she is . ’
18 Er , so i it 's er changes of that kind that have been looked at because if you move production work out of one nation into the other to get a nice rationalised allocation of work , you build this wing , you build that wing and so on , you then have got to do something with the minor components to get back to you original erm work share allocation and percentage times .
19 Thus the ideological conflicts of the kind that have characterized the union movement in Spain ( see below ) and elsewhere in Europe are almost entirely absent .
20 According to the outgoing editor , Mr Peter Stanford , she also has glamour of a kind that has rarely been seen in the paper 's musty offices .
21 The building was in good condition , but the city council wished to clear the site to make way for yet another comprehensive shopping development of the kind that has already blighted other parts of the city beyond recall .
22 A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west .
23 Brideshead , too , is an exercise in passionate nostalgia , and of a kind that has sometimes been held to be embarrassing , since it celebrates the dying life of a great country house , though such critical embarrassments may be more ritual than real .
24 Note that the target must be an infantry or cavalry Mob of the kind that has to take an Animosity test itself — not a chariot , war engine , etc and not a Mob that is already engaged with the enemy .
25 Note that the target must be an infantry or cavalry Mob of the kind that has to take an Animosity test itself , not a chariot , war engine etc , and not a Mob which is already engaged against the enemy .
26 The real danger today is not of being seen to condone precipitate separatism but , through the impotence of our response so far , of being seen to condone brutal and barbaric behaviour of a kind that has not been seen in Europe since the 1940s .
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