Example sentences of "and [verb] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had n't she known , six years ago , pregnant and alone , that it would take a miracle for her to survive Tony 's death and build some kind of life for herself and her child ? |
| 2 | Meanwhile , as well as searching for a director to replace its current chief , Bob Scheifler , the X Consortium is also examining ways of distancing itself from its home at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developing some kind of marketing focus without falling foul of its not-for-profit status . |
| 3 | For this reason among others the organizational theories of the founders of the general unions of 1889 bore little fruit until after 1911 when urges towards revolutionary amalgamation , industrial unionism or the more general form of the later Transport and General Workers began to give the ideals of Thorne , Mann and Tillett some kind of practical reality . |
| 4 | Some want to invest in the island and get some kind of tourism going . ’ |
| 5 | With the object of literary studies circumscribed on the basis of differentiation and not on that of inherent qualities , it becomes possible both to establish the notion of literariness , and to give some kind of scientific status to the study of literature . |
| 6 | The aim is to make something people can instantly get excited about but which also stands up to close analysis in terms of being musically interesting and having some kind of content and meaning … ’ |
| 7 | The delicate balance of cooperation between them — occurring across the corpus callosum and involving some kind of filtering process — is therefore of crucial importance in allowing the left hemisphere to remain responsive to the right hemisphere 's influence , yet sufficiently in control to avoid overloading of conscious , directed thought . |
| 8 | Eventually ( and assuming some kind of drastic disruption does not take place ) a given space tends to settle down into a state of balance . |
| 9 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 10 | And take some kind of action . |
| 11 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 12 | Party strategists believe that Labour will have to embrace proportional representation and form some kind of alliance with the Liberal Democrats to provide a credible challenge to the Conservatives . |
| 13 | The latter will end by confirming or rejecting the original theory , but humans , being what they are , will usually manage to prove themselves right and join some kind of inquisition to make sure everyone else is proved right too . |
| 14 | Most people need to talk about their grief , to express it with others and have some kind of ceremony to show what an important life change it brings about . |