Example sentences of "kind [prep] [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning with education , there is general agreement that it is not just any kind of education which will encourage economic growth . |
| 2 | Words can not describe the kind of person who would do a thing like this . |
| 3 | ‘ I was the kind of person who would sit back and let my manager look after things , ’ he says , ‘ and that 's never a good idea . |
| 4 | When those invited cried off , Jean knew that Minton was the kind of person who would drop everything to help out . |
| 5 | Later , the presence , or even the existence , of the people we care about may not be necessary for their influence to apply , for we may retain the desire to be the kind of person who would have won their affection and approval . |
| 6 | Tim Renton is obviously the kind of person who would turn the volume down on a Johnny Mathis 78 . |
| 7 | cos you could , I mean if if she asked you about it , you know , you could just say well honestly I 'm quite , I did n't think you were the kind of person who 'd go for I know , I know that thing is I mean I can see , I can see that she 's going for him because |
| 8 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 9 | The designer needs to know about the tasks which his new device is intended to aid and also about the kind of person who will use it . |
| 10 | I have never been the kind of person who can dismiss physical appearance , who passes a make-up counter without a glance . |
| 11 | He has this image in his head of the kind of person he 'd like to be , it 's a cartoon character … something about 2000 AD . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's a super guy , the kind of person you 'd like your sister to go out with , ’ one of his handlers said . |
| 13 | ‘ Like , you 're the kind of person I 'd like to talk to if I just had a fight with my girlfriend or was in trouble with the law or something . ’ |
| 14 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 15 | At such moments participants find their ‘ public ’ voice and do not need the kind of protection they may have relied on earlier . |
| 16 | Where we are not dealing solely with our own affairs but forming general preferences as to the kind of society we would like to live in , the main pleasures and pains we are concerned with are precisely these pleasures and pains of sympathy . |
| 17 | These vast walls were slashed across with bizarre colours like some monstrous oil-painting … it was the kind of valley one would expect to find in the exotic landscape of a dead planet ’ . |
| 18 | Let us now return to consider the kind of assistance one might expect from computers in relation to the particular areas of personnel work referred to earlier . |
| 19 | ‘ This kind of love we 'll keep for ourselves . ’ |
| 20 | You know when Beecham was conducting it once a trumpeter came in early in one of the big silences : the kind of catastrophe you can do nothing about . |
| 21 | If not are not interested in Media Action , could you let me know what other kind of publicity you may require over the next four to six weeks . |
| 22 | One approach to investigating Hymen 's characterization is to identify the other roles for male sopranos in Lully 's ballets in order to establish what kind of affect they may have had . |
| 23 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 24 | I did n't know what kind of play she might have been pulling . |
| 25 | In the researchers ' view , if the character was to have any kind of success she should reflect a more contemporary lifestyle . |
| 26 | But now her outfit , although loose and flowing , was slightly closer to the kind of garment you might expect in SW19 . |
| 27 | So erm I mean the justification for this kind of course I would claim is ultimately to try and make people more realistic about what is possible and er the , because th th the advantage of knowing what 's possible is you can avoid impossible experiments that ultimately result in disaster for everyone . |
| 28 | If that s the kind of performance we can expect from well paid professionals god help us . |
| 29 | He looked , Toby thought , the kind of boy who might play the passive role in some bent porno film — and , indeed , were he asked , Hilary Frome would certainly have been willing . |
| 30 | They ask you for every kind of documentation you can imagine and then treat you like some kind of being that is half-human , half-dog , who does n't have any private life of her own . |