Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of thing [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of things the carers said were : |
| 2 | To him the divine character of Christianity was vindicated not by its reasonableness but by the very fact that it was the kind of thing no ordinary mind could have invented . |
| 3 | It is exactly the kind of thing a truly determined and environmentally conscious government could get on with and do . |
| 4 | It was the kind of thing a man might pass on to his son some day — if he had a son . |
| 5 | It was the kind of thing a child might say . |
| 6 | The kind of thing a man would remember for the rest of his days . |
| 7 | They are , in fact , just the kind of thing the natural philosopher might be interested in . |
| 8 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A FEW MONTHS AGO I GAVE MY IMPRESSIONS of the sort of thing a typical record critic tends to look for in putting together a review . |
| 11 | It is polite , true , and it is the sort of thing a lot of clients like . |
| 12 | It 's the sort of thing a lover would observe . |
| 13 | Her clothes could not be described as unsuitable for the country , but they were not the sort of thing a country woman would wear . |
| 14 | It 's the sort of thing a Copt would think of , the sort of way they think . ’ |
| 15 | Wing specialists do n't even understand wings with full mathematical precision : they can predict how a wing will behave in turbulent conditions , only by examining a model in a wind tunnel or a computer simulation — the sort of thing a biologist might do to understand an animal . |
| 16 | Tell him it 's the sort of thing no woman would want let out of the bag . |
| 17 | It 's not the sort of thing the son of an important man should say . ’ |
| 18 | Just the sort of thing the Old Man would pick on . |
| 19 | This was the sort of thing the men must cope with , thought Harold , true to his Victorian principles . |
| 20 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
| 21 | ‘ That note 's just the sort of thing the little sod would do . ’ |
| 22 | And just to give you a flavour of the sort of thing the Fourth and Fifth Floors of No 19 , here are two of the many very hot issues currently under development . |
| 23 | It was just the sort of thing the boys liked , and when Hilary had fetched their suppers — a cold Scotch egg each — from the kitchen , they all sat watching it . |
| 24 | It 's the sort of thing the KGB are very good at . |
| 25 | ‘ Just the sort of thing the Richardsons would do . ’ |
| 26 | No it makes you look like some , you look like , those are the sort of thing the cleaning ladies would wear . |
| 27 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 28 | In the nature of things a leavening of the poorer husbandmen ( and yeomen , for that matter ) may be presumed to have been elderly and retired from active farming . |
| 29 | Nor were the financial departments in France and Germany in any way independent of the royal household , even though in the nature of things the royal treasury could not be carried round with the king on his travels in quite the way in which the relics were . |
| 30 | ‘ On the surface of things the Buddhists seemed the best of all the religious groups . |