Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was really being exchanged , within a specific kind of society marked by overt class inequalities , was a hopefully mutual reputation and honour |
| 2 | Now while there is no reason to doubt that the first kind of structure contributes in one way or another to the effect of the poem , it can be and has been argued ( Riffaterre 1966 : 206ff. ) that the second is in most cases irrelevant to the text 's poetic status , since it tends to fall well below the ordinary reader 's level of consciousness . |
| 3 | It has faded from the lips of those in the east , and the dying man on the right has his teeth bared and one eye half closed ; a kind of realism found in some late archaic and early classical vase-painting and sometimes in sculpture too . |
| 4 | Two weeks later Colonel Lane-Fox ( later Pitt-Rivers ) , a pioneer of scientific archaeology , spoke of ‘ the evolution of culture ’ : some kind of Darwinism entered into all kinds of explanations , as tends to happen with highly effective theories which get extended far beyond their sphere and come to function almost as metaphor . |
| 5 | The explanation of the kind of art shown in this exhibition may be sought in the deep-seated and persistent interest which human beings have in the fantastic , the irrational , the spontaneous , the marvellous , the enigmatic , and the dreamlike . |
| 6 | A different kind of survey conducted among 103 West Midlands practices showed that company and commercial advice and taxation advice often associated with the drafting of wills were regarded as important categories of work ( Podmore , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | News page is a job that Meany has endeavoured to thrust upon himself with the kind of enthusiasm reserved for African Pygmies on an Easter rhino hunt . |
| 8 | The kind of variation revealed by occasional spellings as primary evidence does not always fit comfortably into the standard historical linguistic mould , and so it has often seemed convenient to ignore it or explain it away , sometimes on the grounds that variability of the kind apparently attested is ‘ impossible ’ . |
| 9 | Individual psychological treatments entailing long sessions with any kind of therapist seem of limited value in general practice and make little economic sense . |
| 10 | What kind of redress does either kind of prisoner have against these conditions ? |
| 11 | It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location . |
| 12 | Each unit is still divided into five Focuses so that everyone in the classroom knows what kind of work to expect on each page . |
| 13 | It 's a kind of work encountered with more and more frequency in New York galleries these days . |
| 14 | And it contributes greatly to the reading of all text in ‘ character 's voice ’ — the kind of text exemplified in this chapter . |
| 15 | And a kind of consensus develops amongst right-minded people in your neighbourhood , that if you keep to certain rules and rituals then by God , by magic , you 'll get to heaven , you wo n't even have to die . |
| 16 | The other two held aloft a kind of canopy made of embroidered silk , not unlike a huge two-handled umbrella . |
| 17 | And , of course , the kind of comprehension needed in any instance is determined or at least influenced by the kind of action it leads to . |
| 18 | Many were there for more than three hours , but Hannah always gives full value for this kind of sacrifice talking to each one for between five and fifteen minutes and writing in the book whatever message is asked for . |
| 19 | There are hundreds of instances of this kind of pose created by many different choreographers . |
| 20 | The kind of joke related by any man is a good indicator of his character , mood and circumstance — a fact which is as valid when applied to the nation as a whole . |
| 21 | This was brought out in an incisive account of the impact of the Bauhaus on modern society by Baudrillard ( 1981 : 185–203 ) , in whose view this principle of creating order through style has become dominant over social interest , as a kind of structuralism imposed on everyday life . |
| 22 | There was at one time a kind of folk-tale relating to this game in Suffolk . |
| 23 | The secret of Shirley 's success lies in the fact that the tears she sends rolling down the cheek are prompted by laughter , but tinged with the searing kind of sadness associated with unfulfilled hopes . |
| 24 | High on this list is the kind of writing found in this book : the relation , through tortuous analogy , of almost everything discussed in the past to events not merely in the present , but in the author 's own life . |
| 25 | The kind of theory invoked by latent structure analysis was basically socio-psychological and cultural . |
| 26 | One great difficulty in the event was that the picture of the man of science as an open-minded searcher after truth does not fit all of them ; indeed it is hard to see how anybody could work in the kind of vacuum envisaged by some of those who invoke a Baconian inductive method . |
| 27 | There is also mountain tundra , a similar kind of vegetation growing on high mountain slopes in lower latitudes . |
| 28 | Despite recent generalizations about the violence and aggression which supposedly typify societies of tropical forest in South America ( see , for instance , Sanday 1981 : 193 ) , these peoples vary considerably in the degree and the kind of violence allowed in everyday life . |
| 29 | In contrast , the very rich , who themselves in their travelling have perversely become a kind of nomad moving from one luxurious place to another , are the poorest spiritually . |
| 30 | Tim has the kind of gut feeling for old furniture that comes from being the second generation in the trade . |