Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the kind of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great merit of the UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali 's Agenda for Peace report to the Security Council summit last year is its tough-minded and realistic assessment of the kind of reforms so urgently required . |
| 2 | In general this appears to be a function of the kind of sectors in which they are working , or of the kinds of occupations which they have . |
| 3 | Even so , he was called upon to sign documents on occasions , as when a conveyance relating to the chapel and its land was prepared in 1805 and his name as witness ( 'John Titford , Cardmaker' ) appears alongside those of John Lacey , shoemaker , Richard Butler , weaver , and James Browning , clothier ; together they form a nice little thumb-nail sketch of the kind of men who were ‘ Chapel ’ rather than ‘ Church ’ at this period . |
| 4 | ‘ We must beware lest unscrupulous people exploit these areas of misunderstanding and divert our attention from the really important task , which is our common defence of the kind of freedoms we hold so dear : the freedoms for which this noble university so proudly stands and for which so many of its sons gave their lives in foreign fields . ’ |
| 5 | In this case , a wider variety of the kinds of influences dealt with in these two chapters will come into play . |
| 6 | We can turn now to a closer examination of the kinds of objectives possible . |
| 7 | Erm it 's for it 's it 's in order that , that in the nineties we have a historical record , I think I 'm I think I 'm saying this right , there is a historical record of the kind of words that are being introduced into the into our language into our vocabulary like for example i.e. |
| 8 | If that 's a sample of the kind of terms you 're offering , I 'm sure we can come to an agreement . ’ |
| 9 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |
| 10 | The oriental forests also contain small creatures that perhaps give us a glimpse of the kind of animals that , 70 million years ago , led to the evolution of the first placental mammals and so to humans . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The summative profile is accompanied by a Teacher 's Statement , which is a written report of the student 's particular strengths and an outline of the kinds of topics covered on the course . |
| 13 | Consumers ' initial ignorance of the kinds of commodities technologically possible with currently available resources and of the relative prices at which these commodities can in principle be produced gradually diminishes . |
| 14 | Resource owners ' initial ignorance of the kinds of commodities consumers will buy and of the relative prices which can in principle be obtained for these commodities gradually diminishes . |
| 15 | Recruitment policies are not touched on , with one brief prewar exception ( p. 10 ) , which means that we are kept in ignorance of the kinds of men and women ( reputedly mostly Oxbridge dons ) who augmented MI5 's strength and clearly had a great impact on its whole character and competence at the beginning of the war . |
| 16 | The last stanza of ‘ Exequy ’ is a summing-up of the kind of rituals described by Frazer in Adonis Attis Osiris where in the declining year the representative of the year-spirit was put to death , often by burning . |
| 17 | A basic attitude of empathy ( a ) to appreciate the power and attractiveness of religion and be able to get on the wavelength of religious people ; ( b ) to be aware in a meaningful way of the kind of experiences and arguments upon which religious people base their convictions ; ( c ) to learn fluency in the language of affirmation , both of others as people and of what is meaningful and important to them . |
| 18 | So this all suggests to me that the establishment of fierce criteria could make this a very rare exception is the key and erm I think we 've had it in the course of the discussion , it 'll now be on the record , erm an exploration of the kind of criteria those could be . |
| 19 | So what did they think of Hollywood 's treatment of the kind of scenes they know so well ? |
| 20 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 21 | Hughie Gallacher 's career was a microcosm of the kind of scandals that would decorate Scottish football over the next 50 years . |
| 22 | Maybe because of its bourgeois roots , maybe because of the class position of the kind of women working in it ? |
| 23 | Yeah it 's for some er it 's for somebody to get a general idea of the kind of things that happen in lectures . |
| 24 | Also a writer , dancer , and an aspiring actress , Zoe has a firm idea of the kind of films she would like to act in . |
| 25 | You can get a general idea of the kinds of things they do by studying Figure 3 . |
| 26 | The art of counterfactual analysis consists in formulating probable hypothetical claims which will help us to disentangle the roles played by disparate variables , and this requires a systematic view of the kinds of factors which might plausibly have been different . |
| 27 | Please note that , whilst the above are not actual statements made by a serious accident victim , they have been selected because we believe they give a fair representation of the kind of problems which may occur after an accident . |
| 28 | It would appear from paragraph ( a ) that a seller who has a monopoly over the supply of the kind of goods in question is unlikely to convince the court of the reasonableness of a wide exemption clause , especially if it was a large demand for the product which enabled him to insist on the clause being in the contract . |
| 29 | So I do n't think anyone here as an elected member , needs to defend their positions if they wish to move from a political or a bureaucratic policy to something which is more pluralist and much more representative of the kind of policies that this council should be discussing not only now but also in the future . |