Example sentences of "kind of [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to prevent the kind of abuse of animals which has happened in other areas of livestock production the RSPCA commissioned Doctor Brian Bertram , an expert on ostriches to look into how to farm the birds humanely . |
| 2 | Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er |
| 3 | One of the most interesting recent developments had been the discovery that the very first muscle cells to differentiate also erect a kind of scaffold of pathways along which the later ‘ motor ’ nerves migrate in order to locate their muscle targets ( Nature , Vol 301 p 66 ) . |
| 4 | Next came four schoolboys , one of them carrying an open copy of the Koran placed upon a kind of platform of palm-sticks and covered with an embroidered kerchief . |
| 5 | Just the men , what 's the kind of proportion of women to men in the factory ? |
| 6 | first of all , to decide what kind of structure of jobs ( and departments ) the organisation needs ; and |
| 7 | Because I have had it with that kind of treatment of Americans . " |
| 8 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 9 | In all these cases a kind of reconciliation of opposites can be seen . |
| 10 | The , the kind of spirit of things is |
| 11 | There follows a simple example of this kind of organisation of ideas and information . |
| 12 | They 're just doing a kind of tour of loads and loads of houses cos they keep moving with his job . |
| 13 | The much valued community education services offered by the multi-cultural family orientated Highfields youth and community centre and the kind of development of services that could take place at the Moat , Moat centre . |
| 14 | Throughout the century proposals for the creation of some kind of reserve of seamen were put forward , all of them without success . |
| 15 | I was made uneasy by those parading men in smart suits and dark glasses , who appeared to be a kind of confraternity of Falangists , ardent nationalists and supporters of Franco , whose picture was everywhere . |
| 16 | There is some kind of epidemic of withdrawals going around Crystal Palace this year , and the Norwegians are not the only side to have suffered . |
| 17 | ‘ It is this kind of package of courses which is likely to appeal , ’ she says . |
| 18 | The roadway is closed to traffic by a turnpike , then , underneath a kind of Bridge of Sighs connecting the main block with the buildings attached to the Arch , it is closed again by a set of ornamental gates — and then closed for a third time by another turnpike . |
| 19 | Windows has thousands , whereas OS/2 seems to be bereft of the kind of volume of applications that would signal it acceptance as the standard operating system . |
| 20 | How many people what kind of number of servants stayed in the house ? |
| 21 | Babbage adds : ‘ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question . ’ |
| 22 | There is some kind of conspiracy of bureaucrats : they all have their fingers in the same profitable pie . |
| 23 | I see us moving more and more , towards what I call these kind of targets of activities , we 've got the Victoria Ward |
| 24 | ( v ) development of complex amplificatory , extending and reproductive technical systems , which make possible new kinds of presentation of all the preceding types , but also new kinds of presentation of practices still otherwise based on the use of inherent and constituted resources . |
| 25 | The kinds of theorisation of classes discussed in Chapter 2 , theorisations concerned with demarcating the working class and the new middle class/ new petty bourgeoisie on Marxist criteria , do not address the problem of assessing the importance of the ‘ classes ’ ( broad collectivities , in my terms ) which are taken to exist in particular social formations — the ‘ classes ’ which are ( more or less consistently ) recognised by the people as such , and to one or other of which many people regard themselves as belonging . |
| 26 | The difficulty of the term is then obvious , but can be most usefully seen as the result of earlier kinds of convergence of interests . |