Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would obviously be possible to provide some kind of assistance here . |
| 2 | Or if an adult hospital patient with young children is known to be terminally ill , it should be possible to provide some kind of support for the spouse and the children in preparation for their loss , in order that they may work through their grief and come to terms with their new situation . |
| 3 | We have become so used to spiteful obituaries that it was pleasant to find some kind thoughts about a dead writer . |
| 4 | And it has to be said that most of us are likely to have some kind of experience when our ego is deflated ; and that can often have a beneficial not a negative effect . |
| 5 | Would I abort if my child was likely to have some kind of deformity ? |
| 6 | So they went to the Kildingy Well which was s supposed to have some kind of magical properties you see and er I do n't ken if it was a a holy well or exactly but it certainly was reputed to have some kind of properties that could cure supposed to cure any disease save the black death . |
| 7 | It may be possible to devise some kind of training programme for certain difficulties to achieve this effect . |
| 8 | Once he was in power , this alternative view would argue , his policies were more consistent with a belief that it was still feasible to salvage some kind of organic link between France and Algeria than with a belief in the inevitability of complete rupture . |
| 9 | Beyond about 1 km the costs of movement become sufficiently great to warrant some kind of response … |
| 10 | The longer-lasting remissions experienced by patients with relatively mild symptoms suggests that an enhanced oxygen supply may even be able to stimulate some kinds of repair , perhaps re-myelination of damaged nerves . |
| 11 | The Times was highly critical of what it called ‘ these usurious companies ’ , but their creation was a genuine attempt by the government of the day to provide the less privileged members of society with a state money-lender which hopefully they would find more trustworthy than the neighbourhood pawnbroker ; and presumably each society 's secretary was able to provide some kind of money management advice to those who needed it . |
| 12 | Herodotus was able to establish some kind of time-sequence for the two centuries before his time , but he was a more diffuse writer than Thucydides , who was concerned with many events occurring in a shorter time interval . |
| 13 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 14 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 15 | A shop will prove a little more expensive but may be able to offer some kind of guarantee . |
| 16 | You would still ha be able to have some kind of interaction but it would n't actually be verbal because there would be no words in common , okay ? |
| 17 | The younger reader is thus able to get some kind of tentative vision of what his or her own life in science might be . |
| 18 | They may even be able to revolutionise some kinds of businesses by providing new kinds of selling tools . |
| 19 | Jensen 's PEG system ‘ is able to make some kind of syntactic sense out of any decent English sentence ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's essential to have some kind of interaction , ’ he told me . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it 's essential to have some kind of interaction , ’ he told me . |
| 22 | Still clinging to the maxim that work , particularly physical labour , could eclipse mental turmoil , she had gone out , determined to wrest some kind of order from the chaos of neglect . |
| 23 | If the pool sides are vertical or very steep , it may be necessary to erect some kind of formwork . |
| 24 | If you are under sixteen you are obliged to receive some kind of education until you reach this age . |
| 25 | ‘ We felt it was necessary to get some kind of lasting tribute in this area , ’ said Mr Taylor . |
| 26 | ‘ We set fire to it , ’ said the visitor , anxious to make some kind of philosophical statement . |
| 27 | The idea was that through deconditioning , unblocking , a ventilation of the soul ( ‘ airing your problems ’ ) , it was possible to achieve some kind of frank and freeflowing exchange . |
| 28 | By reviewing the statements like these it is possible to construct some kind of picture of what the Conservative Party has understood active citizenship to mean . |