Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 2 | At the end of last year , the FDA was persuaded that the Utah Medical Center had evolved a plastic and aluminium ‘ heart ’ ( known as the Jarvik 7 , after its designer , Dr Robert Jarvik ) which stood a chance of sustaining some kind of life , and permission was given for a series of seven experiments , employing the new toy , after which the instrument 's worth was to be reviewed . |
| 3 | It is , surely , a way of giving legitimacy to what we say or do , of providing some kind of backing or security . |
| 4 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc declined to put a timeframe on delivery of its own COSE-compliant products — it wants to see the specifications first — but its IXI Ltd division expects to be first to market with a compliant desktop manager ; moreover , Santa Cruz is said to be toying with the idea of doing some kind of COSE implementation to run over Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 5 | Moreover , SCO is said to be toying with the idea of doing some kind of COSE implementation for Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 6 | Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know . |
| 7 | of sort of having some kind |
| 8 | I do n't know if I know I understand obviously monies not around at the moment but if they made some way of creating some kind of jazz pub closing it down making it part of the theatre again it 's it 's just a like a pub and I I do n't ever feel comfortable going in there and buying drinks on rehearse . . |
| 9 | We can also legitimately ask to what extent people are rational in the sense of making some kind of calculation concerning the best way to satisfy their needs . |
| 10 | But he will still be organising 13,000 volunteers into bringing some kind of Christmas to 125,000 needy , lonely or down-and-out people . |
| 11 | He 's obsessed about his work — obsessed with building some kind of memorial to your father . |
| 12 | One has the impression that the politicians have half-heartedly picked it up so as not to be left behind in the citizenship fashion-parade , or maybe because they have been prodded into rendering some kind of lip-service by their convinced academics . |
| 13 | We are beginning to wonder what it what it takes to engage in good faith negotiations as a business with the state of California , if all it takes is one person to get up , make some kind of scurrilous allegations , and throw the entire bidding in into cast some kind of doubt upon it . |
| 14 | A law to require any manufacturer selling computers in Germany to take back its equipment for reuse or recycling is being drafted for next year , while governments in Denmark and Sweden are considering legislation this spring for mandating some kind of electronics scrap recycling program . |
| 15 | The attraction of this approach is that most up-to-date and enlightened LEA centres , WEA branches and extra-mural departments can be relied upon to include some kind of women 's studies in their provision which is different in kind from domestic education and men 's education . |
| 16 | This came at a time when several years of large oil-revenue increases had created an exceptionally propitious atmosphere for reaching some kind of understanding . |
| 17 | There are various ways of mapping a plane on to a sphere ( or vice versa ) but there is no way of doing this without producing some kind of distortion or another ; Mercator 's projection of the globe on to a flat map , leads to a diminutive Africa and an exaggerated Greenland . |
| 18 | Since you can not pronounce any utterance without using some kind of tune and rhythm , you will undoubtedly use your own familiar patterns unless you consciously focus on these features in the new language from the beginning of your language study . |
| 19 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 20 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 21 | A business can not plan without making forecasts , and it can not make forecasts without having some kind of plan to act as a framework for forecasters to use . |
| 22 | SECTION MAIN POINTS 1 & 1.1 Role and A business can not plan without making purpose of forecasting forecasts , and can not forecast without having some kind of plan to act as a framework . |
| 23 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 24 | Although this difficulty could be resolved by adopting some kind of stratified sampling procedure ( Trudgill , for example , sampled four electoral wards of which the social characteristics were known ) , a more general question emerges of whether it is always reasonable to take the population of an urban area as a sampling universe , when in fact a high proportion of the higher-status people who work in that city actually reside in neighbouring towns . |
| 25 | In non-metals we can achieve an effective toughness either by devising some kind of work of fracture mechanism without making use of dislocations or else by stopping cracks from running by one means or another . |
| 26 | Bad as they were , gelatine glues were better than the alternative , the gums or starch glues which were made by boiling some kind of flour in water . |