Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British case represents the kind of compromise commentators on our national characteristics have come to expect . |
| 2 | Extending the curriculum to include a range of applications which more adequately than at present represents the kinds of human endeavour where mathematics is used would be another such change , with fewer examples involving ballistics and war , for instance , and more involving such activities as working with fabrics , designing appliances for the disabled or looking at the school canteen 's queuing problems . |
| 3 | The following text illustrates the kind of problem that the pronominal function of gender can pose in translation . |
| 4 | Its successor , The Hand of Ethelberta ( 1876 ) , a comic satire on fashionable London society , was a deliberate attempt to write the kind of fiction which he felt the clients of circulating libraries expected . |
| 5 | Other research illustrates the kinds of cross-cultural communication problem which can arise in interviews and other institutional settings . |
| 6 | According to this view , de Gaulle was calculating that his resignation would produce a groundswell of popular annoyance with the parties or would give the politicians an opportunity to display their full incompetence — either of which outcomes would lead to de Gaulle 's rapid reinstatement , this time with a popular mandate to create the kind of constitution that he favoured . |
| 7 | attempts to solve this conundrum by drawing the following distinction : a misconstruction of the enabling statute describing the kind of case into which the tribunal is meant to inquire will go to jurisdiction , but misconstruing a statutory description of the situation that the tribunal has to determine will , at most , be an error within jurisdiction . |
| 8 | Louis B. Mayer announced that she was America 's new sweetheart , exactly the kind of actress to make the kind of pictures decent , wholesome citizens needed . |
| 9 | His latest speech seemed to go further than he had ever gone before in advocating force to achieve the kind of England he wanted . |
| 10 | Furhtermore , Mr. gave me a drawing to show the kind of working drawing BW engineers expected . |
| 11 | With Sambo McNaughton , James McNaughton , Leonard McKeegan , Alistair McGuile and John Carson in fine fettle just now , the 'Dall possess the kind of fire-power necessary for success . |
| 12 | One method would be to program the computer to remember the kinds of qualities that humans have favoured in the past , and to exert continued selection of the same general kind in the future . |
| 13 | What is beyond disputes is that Battle produces the kind of seamless , creamy sound , and faultless intonation that recalls the girlish purity of Gundula Janowitz at the very height of her powers , and Perlman turns on all his customary warmth and charm from which even his relatively close positioning can not detract . |
| 14 | The grain and the tonal range help create the kind of black and white images I like best . |
| 15 | The fact that this at least made it into D & AD 's showcase book of work indicates the kind of thing direct marketeers should aim for if they want to improve their awards performance . |
| 16 | But , avidly staring , he persuaded himself into both the disappointment and the relief of recognizing that the girl possessed the kind of grace or innate innocence which made it very unlikely — no , impossible ! filthily impossible ! — that her young breasts and thighs were commodities available for temporary hire . |
| 17 | Public pressure was against them , and they often fought a bitter battle to maintain the kind of home life in which they believed . |
| 18 | We do n't of course see the kind of thing that went on in Germany under Hitler , but you feel a disaster is waiting , another disaster of some kind is waiting . |
| 19 | The UN Declaration of Human Rights states : ‘ Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children . ’ |
| 20 | The consultative task was to keep the focus of discussion on the pupil , but simultaneously to deal with the teacher 's perception of the problem ( the reinforcing effect it was having on both pupil and teacher ) by giving him through group support the kind of liberating learning experience which he could transfer into the teaching context with Dave |
| 21 | Current records managers and archivists must not allow the limits of their imagination to constrain the kinds of information they preserve because historians may wish to tap a wide range of possible sources to build up different views of the past . |
| 22 | Next year I 'll report to the general assembly erm , if all things are equal , that the Board will by then have set up a scheme to allow care workers to go out from our erm residential establishments into the community to extend the kind of professional service that we 're able to give in our establishments to people who live in the community . |
| 23 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 24 | Such a mechanism is particularly useful if there is a need to alter the kinds of proteins present to meet changing circumstances . |
| 25 | So why could n't he just have a photograph of his sales team portraying the kind of team spirit that runs throughout the branch ? |
| 26 | There was no need to specify the kind of work that she meant , because both of them knew . |
| 27 | His appearance compelled the kind of attention a mouse gives a snake : in his late thirties , he looked shrivelled and ageless , anxious and ill . |
| 28 | ‘ We told the family how bad he was and won their permission for the vet to do the kind thing . ’ |
| 29 | There had to be freedom of association — that is , freedom to form political parties , and freedom to form the kind of associations we now know as pressure groups , whose purpose is to bring to bear on parties and on governments the combined pressure of the interests they represent . |
| 30 | With the bridge humbucker on full and the boost up all the way , the Legend emits the kind of sounds that would frighten children and small animals . |