Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All but the most persistent kinds of pollution ( now increasingly rare ) are ephemeral and mobile . |
| 2 | His pity , to him the most selfless kind of love , had produced hatred . |
| 3 | It must be admitted that in deliberately excluding considerations of principle we are crediting the traveller with a rather narrow kind of intelligence , acute though it may be . |
| 4 | The membership of this minority was never defined , nor was its need for a fundamentally different kind of teaching explained or justified . |
| 5 | The Mendeleev Table appeared at first sight to conclude the study of the atomic theory by setting a limit to the existence of fundamentally different kinds of matter . |
| 6 | Probably the most demanding kind of speech recording is that of voice-over commentary — it is so easy to make it sound embarrassingly amateurish . |
| 7 | So through that dismal day Hugh Templar sat at his kitchen table and pursued the adventures of a team of space-travellers who had discovered a world directly behind the sun , which was a mirror-image of our own Earth , with the same physical composition , but with a rather different kind of population , a race having strange and , I hoped , thought-provoking ideas about how to run their planet … |
| 8 | That is , we have two rather different kinds of plurality to deal with : Fig4.4 ( A ) PLURALITY OF ( B ) PLURALITY OF CODING LEVELS FUNCTIONS Textual Now , there is no one-to-one correspondence between levels and functions ( although we shall find , in Chapters 6 and 7 , some strong associations between them ) . |
| 9 | Some light is perhaps shed on the problem by the most recent psychological researches on memory , which have identified two rather different kinds of memory — ‘ explicit ’ memory , which amounts to relatively detailed recall of a set of stimuli ; and ‘ implicit ’ memory , which is distinctly short of detail , but enables people , in effect , to ‘ know I 've seen it before somewhere ’ . |
| 10 | For twelve years after J. and I were married we lived first in West and then East Africa , an entirely different kind of life from what had gone before . |
| 11 | An entirely different kind of problem in modern living is ‘ noise pollution ’ and that term is increasingly being used to describe the problem of excessive noise . |
| 12 | All you need is an ‘ I know what you mean ’ or ‘ I can see what you 're getting at ’ for an entirely different kind of discussion to begin . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it might be a reaction but I think we 'll find they do all different kinds of music as they go on . |
| 14 | Thus , before medieval drama went into the streets as part of a religious festival , less developed kinds of dramatization of several of the same events — key moments in the Christian history of the world — had been performed in churches , and some of the very earliest of these — the Quem quaeritis ? episodes of the encounters after the resurrection — had been performed within religious services . |
| 15 | A more widespread and less blatant kind of sound-symbolism is discussed by the many style studies that see , for instance , suggestions of gloom or obscurity in the ‘ dark ’ vowels o and u , feelings of speed or haste in certain rhythms , and so forth . |
| 16 | Noting the somewhat limited kinds of talk generated , the teacher commented that this no doubt reflected the limitations of the activities themselves : ‘ That 's about as much as you could expect to get out of them . ’ |
| 17 | But a less obvious kind of evidence may , according to Labov , be provided by some kind of irregularity in the expected pattern of differentiation according to speech style , or sex or social class of speaker . |
| 18 | These important studies , made at night with great patience ( Charles-Dominique and Martin 1972 ) , show that at the very root of the primate evolution we have an extremely loose kind of relationship between the sexes . |
| 19 | As the following examples indicate , there is considerable divergence among the relationships indicated by expressions which have been classified as apposition markers : Burton-Roberts ( forthcoming ) comments that the differences between these expressions shows that apposition is " an extremely loose kind of relation subsuming such functions as gloss , elucidation , reformulation , exemplification , and even correction " . |
| 20 | She began to look , with a somewhat dull kind of hopefulness , for somebody friendly , not too much in a hurry , walking the opposite way , although it would be more reasonable , really , to ask somebody walking the same way . |
| 21 | In the ritual legal opera only certain kinds of song can be performed ; only certain persons can sing . |
| 22 | Professor Elton believes that they are part of the revolution in government carried through by Thomas Cromwell , that they produced an entirely new kind of Council — a formal governing board instead of an informal inner ring — and that they achieved a clear demarcation of function between administrative and judicial business , with the Privy Council attending to administration and the Star Chamber in effect the same people afforced by two judges — carrying out conciliar jurisdiction . |
| 23 | The pearlescents have an historical precedence in Japanese prints , where ground up mother of pearl was used to catch the light but are otherwise an entirely novel kind of colour that invites experiment and stimulates the imagination . |
| 24 | The need for this clause was abrogated , however , with the passing of the SC Neronianum in AD 56 , for it provided that a legacy which was on technical grounds ( such as the one suggested ) invalid should be treated according to the interpretation applying to the most favourable kind of legacy , namely that per damnationem . |
| 25 | A ‘ Harvey Wallbanger ’ was the most dangerous kind of driver — a real nut that no trucker would go anywhere near if he could help it . |
| 26 | We have something together that can crash barriers , go beyond the boundaries you must have accepted in your tawdry affair with Jones , since I suspect that he 's capable of only the most limited kind of passion . ’ |
| 27 | By the end of the 1930s the idea of a national scheme of family allowances had gained support in many quarters , although opinion was divided about the most appropriate kind of scheme . |
| 28 | Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged . |
| 29 | Conversationalists do not operate with the idea that their remarks will find their way on to a permanent record and by definition it is usually conversation which a sociolinguist participant observer is studying , rather than some other more overtly structured kind of talk . |
| 30 | I think that when love , and emotion , and passion , and sexual passion are mixed with respect , then that 's the most ideal kind of relationship for me . |