Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] kind [prep] [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 very next year ( 1590 ) he provided music for the pastoral interludes of Tasso 's Aminta and two other pastorals which was in an ‘ altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ’ , presumably some kind of recitative . |
| 5 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 6 | The membership of this minority was never defined , nor was its need for a fundamentally different kind of teaching explained or justified . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Probably the most demanding kind of speech recording is that of voice-over commentary — it is so easy to make it sound embarrassingly amateurish . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | First , as Mercer and Julien remind us , such an equivalence tends to obscure exactly those differences which need to be addressed if we are to understand not only each kind of discrimination separately but also their interconnections ( ‘ Race , Sexuality and Black Masculinity ’ , 99 — 100 ) . |
| 13 | The new show is very much that kind of format , except I wo n't be doing any vicars or skinheads . |
| 14 | The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is at first sight a much simpler kind of formation . |
| 15 | It 's not it 's not actually in here but I 've got erm perhaps that kind of colour |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps that kind of thing runs in families — in the blood . ’ |
| 17 | His father was a public relations man for Dr Barnardo 's Homes and would chat away and do all that kind of thing , whereas David was very much like his mother in terms of showing affection . |
| 18 | That er they were all more or less that kind of band . |
| 19 | Perhaps some kind of spell was broken . |
| 20 | It is , after all , only another kind of sentimentality , drowning the painful scene in the self-indulgent feelings of the onlooker . |
| 21 | Naturally this kind of thing would require a change of name . |
| 22 | It is surprising how long this kind of grudge can be remembered , perhaps because the occasion is inextricably mixed with feelings of loss and deprivation caused by the parent 's death . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's obviously some kind of misunderstanding here . |
| 24 | I 've got to assimilate a much broader kind of spectrum outside the interests of climbers in national parks . |
| 25 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 26 | Obviously this kind of argument is not limited to biochemistry . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Naturally enough this kind of discourse is not unrelated to the facts of the situation . |