Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the kind of question the miners of the country will ask , and they will say they have been deceived , betrayed , duped . |
| 2 | Children are influenced most by example and by the kind of person the step-parent is . ’ |
| 3 | They only reached Azzano , where a partisan leader , fearful of the kind of publicity the Italians would receive if they handed over their ex-Duce to the Allies , had them put up against a wall and shot . |
| 4 | The kind of structure the authors mostly discuss is to do with how to move from one dramatic experience into another in a way that tightens the pupils ' grip on the central issue . |
| 5 | In this anecdotal kind of story the device is , on the whole , pleasing to the reader , even after being caught out by it , and so it is permissible . |
| 6 | It was at Ariel 's insistence that she was buried there in a cenote , the kind of grave the islanders reserved for their prophets , and Kit had yielded to her , even though it was well inside the stockade . |
| 7 | The customer called him Francis : a first name , a last name , a man 's , a woman 's ; it allowed the kind of vagueness the supplier liked . |
| 8 | Sources say Novell Inc has already sent scouts to call on David Tory at the Open Software Foundation with the message that it could not possibly sell Unix with Motif at the kind of price the Foundation charges for a licence : it says the Foundation is now redoing its sums . |
| 9 | ‘ It is the kind of approach the council needs to take if we are to avoid the kind of apartheid against disabled people which this town may develop . ’ |
| 10 | Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit . |
| 11 | It has already made up its mind what kind of literature the Bible is . |
| 12 | Sometimes samples are taken of the natural life found in stream beds to construct a biotic index of the watercourse which will indicate its cleanliness by the kind of life the water will support . |
| 13 | Advertising and its related arts are thus necessary to ‘ develop the kind of man the goals of the industrial system require — one that reliably spends his income and works reliably because he is always in need of more ’ . |
| 14 | The American tradition of the fine photographic print may have been an irresistible provocation — but there were plenty of precedents available for the kind of work the Starn Twins wanted to do ( notably the expansively scored and painted photographic base used by Anselm Kiefer ; Julian Schnabel 's broken plates ) . |
| 15 | It 's the kind of operation the Community Health Council believes could soon be transferred out of the county : |
| 16 | In this kind of novel the act of narration is modelled on a speech act in which one person tells a story to another . |
| 17 | Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon . |
| 18 | It should be possible to relate the reader 's personality traits to the kind of response the reader will make to a particular story or information book . |
| 19 | I wonder what kind of response the crowd will give him ? |
| 20 | In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning . |
| 21 | They could find out what kind of support the Irish comrades would accept . |
| 22 | The film is not primarily a combat movie : no attempt is made to fully identify the kind of unit the protagonists are attached to , nor is there any attempt to locate the central act in time or place . |
| 23 | She wondered what kind of existence the computer programmed after death . |
| 24 | erm it 's , it 's a kind of dancey kind of hate the word but raveish type music but a bit mellower . |
| 25 | Taste is then seen principally as the cause of ‘ classism ’ , which can be defined as the kind of distaste the middle and upper classes feel for the vulgar in fun fairs , cheap commodities , artificial copies , or lack of style , and the contempt working people feel for the pretentious , cold and degenerate middle and upper classes . |
| 26 | Studies of Health Authorities in the 1980s unearthed many examples of the kind of member the government has in mind but whose impact was minimal ( Haywood & Ranade , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | Efforts to interest people with experience of business and top management in authority membership ( DH , 1990 ) make clear the kind of experience the government considers to be particularly relevant . |
| 28 | Asked if any tribes he admires would allow the kind of eccentricity the English tribe had allowed him , he said ‘ I had never thought of that ’ . |
| 29 | In this kind of office the variety of requests for service is probably such that it would be necessary to provide a set of categories of the main kinds of activities or functions . |
| 30 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |