Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | those contacts exist erm I ant anticipate publicity in communicating with local schools and other institutions and things like that and there after merely maintaining some kind of a a a regular advertisement slot in the local paper that says , Yes I 'm still here , because people forget . |
| 2 | It 's a normal thing to do , to teach your children everything from the time they 're born , so to put some kind of arbitrary division on where you stop helping is nonsense to the child and it 's , it 's absurd to parents , too , and of course it does n't happen . |
| 3 | It paused , obviously expecting some kind of shocked reaction . |
| 4 | The idea was basically to produce some kind of semi-independent Greece . |
| 5 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |
| 6 | This study showed that the opossum does not experience some kind of fit or paralytic unconsciousness . |
| 7 | These are : 1 detailed specification of assessment tasks ; 2 careful specification of learning objectives , derived from the subject matter and teaching strategies which involve choices about the subject matter to be taught and assessed ; 3 a sequence of tasks generally representing some kind of progression . |
| 8 | Why , asked the Prince , was Britain the only country in Europe that did not have some kind of community service . |
| 9 | They are not suffering some kind of seizure brought on by the fear of the nearby predator . |
| 10 | It is a commentary upon the action on that occasion , dealing with the problem of how it should be interpreted , speculating on the motives , intentions and characters of those involved , and generally offering some kind of criticism and justification of whatever are taken to be the goings-on . |
| 11 | The United States was still pressing for close cooperation , while the West German Chancellor , Konrad Adenauer , had on several occasions already suggested some kind of Franco-German cooperation . |
| 12 | A verb always makes a link and it always represents some kind of movement . |
| 13 | It is an important question how far political change , which almost always involves some kind of conflict , also tends to be accomplished by violent means . |
| 14 | Always use some kind of paper or label . |
| 15 | Was he still playing some kind of macabre joke ? |
| 16 | From a personal point of view , the best interviews are the ones which become conversations , discussions which proceed on an equal basis , that are informal but still retain some kind of shape . |
| 17 | She cried fairly easily and it usually had some kind of effect . |
| 18 | Tom Tremayne had seen to that and Liza , irresponsible and hedonistic as she was , could not quite see herself leaving Harriet holding the baby while she went off to undertake some kind of training . |
| 19 | Whichever way you decide to produce your holiday movie you still need some kind of broad action-plan in your mind ; without this , you will inevitably find that you have filled the tape with a lot of unrelated odds and ends . |
| 20 | could clearly make some kind of differentiation between a conglomerate paying V A T or some such tax whereas er the exception could be made to those people who are not clearly in a position to make er er to say that . |
| 21 | Would we need , we 'd also need some kind of refreshments and er we 'll have to make a decision about lunch . |
| 22 | Or do those taking science , technological and professional courses also deserve some kind of cultural experience ? |
| 23 | But after that the tide of fortune will turn in your favour , so that you should end up celebrating some kind of moral or financial victory . |
| 24 | Although the power board option was initially ruled out , the Central Authority ( which inherited nearly 300 power stations previously operated by 130 separate generating authorities ) clearly required some kind of regional devolution of management , though they were not , on this side of the industry , constrained by any statutory provisions for regional organisation . |
| 25 | Indeed , we can probably find some kind of research in progress in each of the 200 or more institutions which offer some kind of higher education in the UK . |
| 26 | All languages also have some kind of rhythmical or accentual structure , and again intonation interacts with this structure in different ways in different cases . |
| 27 | The tea was brought in usually by what seemed a Faber handyman , with whom Eliot would often exchange some kind of badinage . |
| 28 | In a consultative approach , one knowledge source , typically encoding some kind of focusing information , is given a special role . |
| 29 | The local authority often requires some kind of planning gain in the form of roads , schools , community centres , to benefit the community at large . |
| 30 | Linguists today would consider this question a silly and misguided one ; while according to John Lyons , author of a wide-ranging introductory reference text , gender often reflects some kind of semantic criterion , he insists that the crucial factor is ‘ not necessarily sex ’ . |