Example sentences of "any kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no character notes of any kind in the text , which is written as a complex rhyming scheme that looks like prose at first glance . |
| 2 | It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else . |
| 3 | Spring-flowering bulbs are difficult for any kind of gardener to resist since , unless they are asked to grow in appalling soil conditions , success if usually guaranteed . |
| 4 | Bulbs of any kind look best when planted informally in groups . |
| 5 | After a launch failure of any kind above two or three hundred feet , once the speed has been checked , it is best to turn off 90° or so in order to avoid going further from the field . |
| 6 | I would therefore advise against taking any kind of drugs , not just because it is unsporting , or because of the threat of severe penalties on discovery , but also because of the adverse effects any drug regime has on the mind and body . |
| 7 | Midges drawn by the smell of their sweat swarmed round their heads and young Angus began to regret his curiosity , but his father 's face was set and dark in a way that froze out complaints , or chatter of any kind . |
| 8 | Are you trying to stop your people carrying blades of any kind ? ’ |
| 9 | There are , though , a host of reasons for resisting any kind of equation between mental representations and mental pictures ; and all of these derive from one fundamental reason . |
| 10 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 11 | She feels imperialized , that everything familiar to her is being disturbed , the peace is being disturbed , and that our ways of telling ( form ) and what we have to tell ( content ) are simply not something that should be on an agenda of any kind . |
| 12 | There was no rebuke or caution of any kind . |
| 13 | A fine of £4,000 is certainly not going to act as any kind of deterrent to her future behaviour . |
| 14 | Some towns and cities are now devoid of any kind of public freight terminal , or even a suitable siding which could be used for a one-off consignment . |
| 15 | He also laid down certain rules fur balance , on the need to bend the knees always as a preparation for any kind of step followed by a stretch , on the vital use of the head and on the need fur the co-ordination of all parts if the desired movements were to be precise and elegant . |
| 16 | ‘ Measurable extent of any kind ; number of unknown qualities contained as factors in a whole ’ |
| 17 | Versions of the traditional hornpipe danced by sailors of many nationalities are featured in many ballets because it is so descriptive of the very particular way in which seamen walk and do the many different jobs that have to be done on any kind of boat . |
| 18 | A study of how people react in real life when affected by any kind of emotion and mood soon reveals how the movements of the whole body can change . |
| 19 | To produce any kind of character and/or national ballet the choreographer should call on the three kinds of mime mentioned earlier , viz. conventional and occupational gesture and natural emotional expression . |
| 20 | The bolting is clearly against the BMC 's policy and I think it is extremely unlikely that the BMC 's committee of management will accept any kind of amendment to that policy . |
| 21 | If you have a good facing brick , it is generally best not to paint it or seal it with any kind of coating . |
| 22 | In its essentials it was n't a diversion of any kind . |
| 23 | And the irony is compounded by the fact that Derrida goes out of his way to resist any kind of adequate treatment in a book like this . |
| 24 | Leavis held firm to the idea that any kind of responsible discussion of literature was a critical act , so that the academic was inescapably engaged in criticism when lecturing or conducting a seminar . |
| 25 | He is now a poststructuralist and has abandoned the great Jane Austen project , as he disbelieves in the possibility of any kind of definite textual meaning or interpretation : ‘ every decoding is another encoding . ’ |
| 26 | The same thing happens when , later in the essay , Eliot defines the limitation of Pound 's kind of criticism ( for ‘ any kind of criticism has its limitations ’ ) : ‘ The limitation of Pound 's kind is in its concentration upon the craft of letters , and of poetry especially ’ . |
| 27 | Lonesome Dove , a five-part story of a Texas-to-Montana cattle drive , also shown on CBS last year , was the best-watched TV mini-series of any kind in America for five years . |
| 28 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 29 | Shelford 's services are being sold to rugby clubs in England and Wales by marketing agents and , according to the Cardiff link in the sponsorship chain , he is available for almost any kind of promotional activity . |
| 30 | For all its tension between unison and bedlam , its freedom to use any kind of gesture or step , you are rarely exhilarated by a sense of newly-discovered movement . |