Example sentences of "[prep] [art] kind of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American tradition of the fine photographic print may have been an irresistible provocation — but there were plenty of precedents available for the kind of work the Starn Twins wanted to do ( notably the expansively scored and painted photographic base used by Anselm Kiefer ; Julian Schnabel 's broken plates ) . |
| 2 | Taste is then seen principally as the cause of ‘ classism ’ , which can be defined as the kind of distaste the middle and upper classes feel for the vulgar in fun fairs , cheap commodities , artificial copies , or lack of style , and the contempt working people feel for the pretentious , cold and degenerate middle and upper classes . |
| 3 | In keeping with this thesis , Lodge is prepared to see no difference between the kind of choice a writer makes in deciding to call a character dark or fair , and the choice between synonyms such as dark and swarthy . |
| 4 | The dispute brought out into the open the argument about the kind of Europe the Community ought to be building , an argument which had simmered beneath the surface for some time , but which until now , partly deliberately and partly unconsciously , had been successfully avoided . |
| 5 | Studies of Health Authorities in the 1980s unearthed many examples of the kind of member the government has in mind but whose impact was minimal ( Haywood & Ranade , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | They only reached Azzano , where a partisan leader , fearful of the kind of publicity the Italians would receive if they handed over their ex-Duce to the Allies , had them put up against a wall and shot . |
| 7 | But what an officer will know of his colleagues ' districts compared with his own will tend to be particularistic — of salient pollution problems — set in the context of an undetailed and generalized apprehension of the kind of patch a colleague looks after . |
| 8 | Drama school productions are staged with an awareness of the kind of demands the profession will make , and students are naturally anxious to be seen in the final production by people who 're likely to offer them work . |
| 9 | That the Code is a portrait of the kind of practitioner the Council wishes to see within the professions . |
| 10 | It looked to the children more like the kind of grin a tiger might give before it pounced on its prey . |
| 11 | For his part , Alexei treated Jehana with the kind of respect a man might give to an aged relative , polite and always attentive , but there was a careful absence of warmth every time he spoke to her . |
| 12 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 13 | Since this is contrary to his teaching concerning the convertibility of means and ends , it is hardly likely that he would be unconcerned with the kind of religion a person might profess to follow . |
| 14 | Despite the school 's stated intention to involve parents as far as possible , I seriously doubted whether Mr or Mrs Singh would be capable or prepared to enter into the kind of partnership the school envisaged . |
| 15 | The trip , which will take place during the school holidays , will bring the 36 boys up against European skills — and as Jim will tell you — give them a valuable insight into the kind of football the Europeans play . |
| 16 | But the shows triumph has been its appeal not just to the unaddressed , naff masses , but also to a fashionable audience of discerning clubbers who never set foot in the kind of clubs the programme broadcasts from , and to the extremist yuppie subgroup that reads both the Sunday Times and the Sunday Sport . |
| 17 | With Tracey apparently intent on limiting his own involvement , she longed to talk things over with someone who might offer more active help ; at the same time , she felt an almost superstitious reluctance to go through the story again in the kind of detail a confidante would need . |
| 18 | It should be possible to relate the reader 's personality traits to the kind of response the reader will make to a particular story or information book . |
| 19 | It is much more closely concerned with how closely the police adhere to the kind of standards the public expects from any large organisation , including promptness , a sympathetic attitude which indicates individual attention , some conspicuous activity and clear information about what will happen next . ’ |
| 20 | Of the forty women , twenty-six claimed that they worked harder than their husbands , seven said the men worked harder , and seven that it depended on personality or on the kind of job the husband had . |
| 21 | He was standing on a kind of pedestal a little above the others , thrusting both arms up into the air . |
| 22 | Sources say Novell Inc has already sent scouts to call on David Tory at the Open Software Foundation with the message that it could not possibly sell Unix with Motif at the kind of price the Foundation charges for a licence : it says the Foundation is now redoing its sums . |
| 23 | With this in mind we take a look at the kind of thing the cold weather walker should be wearing on page 26 and bring you the latest thermals on page 24 . |
| 24 | Children are influenced most by example and by the kind of person the step-parent is . ’ |
| 25 | Sometimes samples are taken of the natural life found in stream beds to construct a biotic index of the watercourse which will indicate its cleanliness by the kind of life the water will support . |