Example sentences of "the kind [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thus impossible to make the kind of pact that had been made with Clovis in France . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the kind of fur Sister Dew thought Miss Broome 's coat might be — but apparently it would be too expensive even for a canon 's daughter . ’ |
| 3 | Cocaine is the kind of drug that does not have to do you harm — unless you 're stupid with it . |
| 4 | None of these animals have the sort of intelligence that would enable them to function as successful human beings ( ignoring the physical differences ) , but then we would not seem to have the kind of intelligence that would enable us to operate successfully in their environments . |
| 5 | If you held the kind of philosophy that I do , you would realize that , in friendship , presence and absence , propinquity and distance , do not make quite the difference that they do in mere acquaintanceship . |
| 6 | However , we should know of certain techniques that are appropriate to the kind of furniture we make . |
| 7 | any status attached to the kind of wood you had |
| 8 | They will tend to be richer and from richer countries , rather than erm than , than the kind of cross-section that we would have liked to have before . |
| 9 | She did n't want to get into that kind of conversation , the kind of conversation adults had with schoolkids . |
| 10 | But in the kind of conversation recorded here , I am not talking about overuse . |
| 11 | the kind of conversation you go up and down . |
| 12 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 13 | He has great potential to be a world champion , and he will be the kind of driver we would like to retain his services through the next possible two , three years , so it 's a longer term situation with him . |
| 14 | It was a dull , snowy night , with heavy grey clouds hanging low in the sky , the kind of night when hopes are destroyed and love is lost . |
| 15 | It might perhaps be wondered why , when the locks were being renovated in 1909 , the opportunity was not taken to adapt the side-ponds , to combine the need to re-fill the lock quickly with the kind of water economy which would have resulted from the more conventional side-pond system . |
| 16 | I gave Rex the kind of nod you could tell your grandchildren about . |
| 17 | All these indicate the kind of critique that is possible when we employ a perspective other than that provided by the immediate discipline . |
| 18 | The answer lies largely in the kind of critique that we developed earlier in relation to Harré . |
| 19 | But liberty to take action contrary to authority was not the kind of liberty that Anselm had come to Canterbury to promote . |
| 20 | Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson whose own title defence is in tatters , admitted : ‘ There are eight or so teams up there , but there is no indication that any of them are putting together the kind of run that looks ominous ‘ Blackburn showed the sort of confidence against us that comes from the feeling that you have got a chance . |
| 21 | McCoist , whose next goal will be his fiftieth of the season for Rangers and Scotland , is in the midst of the kind of run in which he can do no wrong . |
| 22 | Indeed , the proliferation of adventures in the South Atlantic , Abyssinia , China , Japan and New Guinea , with the addition of the Maori Wars , shipwreck and the challenge of life on a desert island , earthquake and eruptions , suggests that Kingston was at last finding it difficult to adapt his exalted heroes to the kind of narrative his readers expected . |
| 23 | This was the kind of neutralisation which Soviet leaders could find attractive in Third World regions like Southeast Asia where the Western military presence considerably outweighed that of the USSR . |
| 24 | Altogether , she had the kind of gloss normally associated with models and film stars , and it seemed oddly out of place here in her aunt 's elegant sitting-room . |
| 25 | I think black music and dance have given a lot of kids a break , but I 'd like to see the kind of dance I 'm into opened up just as much . ’ |
| 26 | A region such as East Anglia illustrates the kind of terrain in which an oral historian may profitably range . |
| 27 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 28 | Which also help us understand the kind of comedy altogether , erm that . |
| 29 | Now , the kind of dream that and we are very thirsty , and you want to go to the bathroom or something , is a dream whi which is the result of a kind of compromise . |
| 30 | Now erm my , my , there 's a poss a possibility that the kind of dream you 're reporting is one which is triggered by that kind of reaction , because I do n't know whether Theresa read about this , but in Interpretation of Dreams there 's a famous example that was provided to Freud by one of his friends of a similar thing . |