Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | What is likely to complicate matters even more is the fact that the publication and dissemination of the Dunrossness report ( see Byron and McFarlane , 1980 ) is likely to add further fuel to the processes discussed above ; not simply in the sense that the report constitutes a kind of distillation of the processes concerned but , more importantly , in the sense that the report provides a source of rhetoric for future discussion about , and agreement over , what is happening in the area . |
2 | Mr. Beazley submitted that the court 's decision in paragraphs 17 and 18 of the judgment , which is also reflected in the answer given to the question in the court 's ruling , is conclusive in his favour and determinative of the construction of article 5(3) ; and that in consequence articles 5(1) and 5(3) are to be construed as mutually exclusive , but as all-embracing so far as actions to establish any kind of liability of the defendants are concerned . |
3 | Its revolutionariness is , however , only incidentally political : in that it evolved outside the universities in marginal academic institutions , and in that its development during the 1960s reached a kind of peak in the years 1967 — 8 , thus coinciding with the événements of 1968 . |
4 | Dominance is a common , but not universal , kind of relationship between the members of a group , in which some animals , the dominant ones , have priority over others , the subordinate ones . |
5 | These important studies , made at night with great patience ( Charles-Dominique and Martin 1972 ) , show that at the very root of the primate evolution we have an extremely loose kind of relationship between the sexes . |
6 | Only about one teacher in three had any kind of supervision in the matters of planning or record keeping . |
7 | If there is any kind of swing against the Tories , the prospects for Mr Devlin look bleak . |
8 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
9 | Honoré Bouvet , whose Tree of Battles , composed in the late fourteenth century , was soon to become a kind of handbook on the conventions of war , was deeply influenced by the many human tragedies caused by war . |
10 | One still finds traces of this kind of landscape on the fringes of the Black Country , as for example in the hamlet of Lower Gornal , in the hills to the north-west of Dudley . |
11 | I 've got to assimilate a much broader kind of spectrum outside the interests of climbers in national parks . |
12 | The Chairmaster , grave , imposing , and bald as a biscuit , apart from the red wig , adhering by a miracle to his left ear , was attempting to give some kind of order to the proceedings . |
13 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
14 | The new style regime gives prisoners a kind of freedom behind the bars . |
15 | ‘ Every evening , the living room gets converted into some kind of camp by the children and smeared in food and footprints , ’ she laughs , ‘ but what 's the point of a home if you have to be precious with it ? ’ |
16 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
17 | When we talk about paradoxical conflict , we can expect the conflict at the margins we , in other , if we made er , if we made er kind of diagram of the parents ' self interest in providing parental investment and the offspring 's self interest in demanding parental investment , we find that there are large areas of overlap . |
18 | We could make the same kind of comment about the lyrics : the predictable rhymes ; the clichéd phrases ( ‘ South of the Border ’ , ‘ stars above ’ , ‘ my thoughts stray ’ , ‘ she was a picture ’ , and so on ) . |
19 | ‘ Mr Nicholson , ’ Paul Merrick said , brushing loose strands of wispy hair from his face , ‘ you said you were going to show us some kind of answer to the problems of overcrowding . |
20 | Q Looking at your diary again , can you see any kind of pattern in the consequences or outcomes to these trying confrontations ? |
21 | What kind of right to the goods must the plaintiff have in order that interference with it may amount to conversion ? |
22 | Other non-violent groups , like al Mujama'a ( The Community ) which commanded a large following in the refugee camps of Gaza and the Islamic Association inside Israel ( see p. 152 ) , posed a different kind of challenge to the authorities . |
23 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
24 | Would you prefer to have another election so that one party could obtain an overall majority or would you prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be an election for a number of years ? |
25 | A somewhat smaller proportion , 43 per cent , would prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be another election for a number of years . |
26 | Typically , you use an analysis or description of a text to claim some kind of connection between the features analysed and something else about the text , such as its meaning , its effect on a reader , how good it is , or its historical origins . |
27 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
28 | Crippled as he was from many falls , only lately taking their toll , he found in the lawn mower a kind of substitute for the experiences of earlier , dangerous days . |
29 | Moreover , these potential thoughts do not just lie there like strands of spaghetti on a plate : each must have a certain kind of relation to the others . |
30 | She was going to have every physical attribute you could possibly imagine : a kind of step-up from the Avengers Honor Blackman lady — doing all sorts of physical stunts , judo and karate . |