Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] type of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a rather variable type of vegetation and is characterised by constant Molinia caerulea , Scirpus cespitosus , Erica tetralix , Potentilla erecta and Calluna vulgaris , but any one or even two of these species might be missing . |
| 2 | Because I 've got a rather stereo-typed type of hand , if you know what I mean ? |
| 3 | A rather disagreeable type of GHOST found in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 4 | Whatever the historical value of such a procedure , and it was slight , it inevitably produced a rather shadowy type of society owing more to nationalist imagination than to recorded facts . |
| 5 | A rather different type of argument suggests there may be strategic advantages in manufacturers remaining separate from retailers , whilst having distinct linkages . |
| 6 | In the case of a level tone , syllables following in the tail will , of course , continue at the same level ; since level tone is to be treated as a rather unusual type of tone , we will not examine it in more detail at this stage . |
| 7 | I quote him at length , not only because he has drawn attention to a hitherto neglected type of Earth Mysteries site , but because his experience so entirely accords with my own . |
| 8 | Bono and the group are warily preparing to leap from Irish success — a literally poor type of success ; sales of 20,000 merit a gold disc in Ireland , and entertainers like The Pope win those — into British obscurity , and wondering how to grab attention , scythe through the settling collection of old values , scatter the cosy tribal narrowness … |
| 9 | Already AMV is a somewhat different type of advertising creature from the founding partnership . |
| 10 | We have just seen that production involves a necessarily entrepreneurial type of market activity . |
| 11 | In this example Robert is being removed from a highly specific type of reward — the pleasure of being in bed with his mum and dad . |
| 12 | Shop owners have been warned that they could face jail sentences if they sell second-hand furniture filled with a highly dangerous type of foam . |
| 13 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 14 | But we must distinguish between a type of interaction which is precisely regulated by the syntactic structure of the sentence , and a more diffuse type of interaction , not dependent on syntax , but merely on discourse propinquity . |
| 15 | The notion of centrifugal launchers was based on the idea that rather than using a long , straight runway , the aircraft could take-off following a circular path around a tower , or possibly a more mobile type of launcher , rather in the manner of ‘ round-the-pole ’ model aircraft . |
| 16 | It was a more advanced type of prayer called ‘ the reformation of feeling ’ , which , in Hilton 's view , was only for monks and nuns . |
| 17 | This is for a more radical type of authority to pursue . |
| 18 | Fly fishing is a more specific type of fishing . |
| 19 | Perhaps there is a need for a more glaciological type of geomorphology and a more geomorphological type of glaciology . |
| 20 | Even as Beaton spoke one director was doing his best to harness the new realism to a more rewarding type of movie . |
| 21 | A more complicated type of leaf , such as in an ivy design ( fig.3 ) , can be prepared by assembling the parts in stages . |
| 22 | In all these societies there are contradictory movements , either to limit or to expand the social services ; movements which take place in what are still substantially free market economies , but raise the question whether there can be any further development of the welfare state without restricting still more the operation of the market and eventually creating a more socialist type of economy in which public ownership of some major productive resources and financial institutions , and more extensive planning , would have a larger role . |
| 23 | Ebenezer Howard 's ‘ garden city ’ movement was one man 's attempt to express the desire for a more suburban type of existence , although this was only ever fully developed in Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth . |
| 24 | Perhaps there is a need for a more glaciological type of geomorphology and a more geomorphological type of glaciology . |
| 25 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 26 | Although Braque had been responsible for taking the first steps towards a more abstract type of painting , his own use of the new procedure was much more cautious than Picasso 's . |
| 27 | Experience over the last ten years ( 1963–73 ) has convinced the staff of this Polytechnic of the need for a more flexible type of course than is commonly offered to students . |
| 28 | Orphism appealed particularly to the Germans , since like so much of their own painting it was brightly coloured and was simultaneously a more theoretical and a more popular type of art than Cubism . |
| 29 | Each planner is individually responsible for putting forward suggestions of suitable issues ; in some instances these can be the result of maverick ideas , and in others they are achieved through a more down-to-earth type of thought . |
| 30 | but a more intricate type of operation , where you 've got to be in for a day , they 're not |