Example sentences of "[adv] of a [adj] kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us suppose that a person well acquainted with the woollen trade sets himself to inquire what would be the normal supply price of a certain number of millions of yards annually of a particular kind of cloth . |
| 2 | That is not so of a different kind of pride , which is currently thwarting the pursuit of those very goals . |
| 3 | The petty bourgeoisie of shopkeepers and self-employed tradesmen needed to keep accounts even if only of a primitive kind , but the growing fraction of permanent journeymen among the artisans grew into a more literate as well as more skilled elite section of the labouring classes . |
| 4 | Certain later texts , mostly of a non-literary kind , display the same phenomenon . |
| 5 | Various offices remained in the gift of the Lord Treasurer and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , but they were mostly of a subordinate kind . |
| 6 | The value of the USRC was thus of an indirect kind ; by involving more than seventy MPs and peers in social research the Unionist belief that the party was a party of reform was re-established ; it began the trend towards research for political action that was to accelerate after the war ; and it affected much later policy by influencing those who were to make it . |
| 7 | The chief property of poetry is coherence , not of a logical kind , but consisting in the harmonization of conflicting meanings or attitudes ; poetry is objectively characterized , Wimsatt suggested ( 1958 : 236 ) , by a ‘ wholeness of meaning established through internally differentiated form , the reconciliation of diverse parts ’ . |
| 8 | But , by the end of the 1980s , while a larger and larger proportion of the female population was in employment , it was seldom employment at a level of high command , and often not of a permanent kind . |
| 9 | A well-ordered civilisation demands standard basic skills of a physical kind : mobility and manipulation , and also of a mental kind : reading , writing and arithmetic . |
| 10 | Most of the traffic on the narrow canals is now of a different kind : growing numbers of pleasure craft owned or hired by those who have discovered the fascination of the inland waterways . |
| 11 | Within regions there are similar flows between districts , often of a substantial kind . |
| 12 | Davy and then Faraday turned out to be brilliant lecturers , holding large audiences for courses on scientific topics , each lecture being illustrated by experiments , often of a spectacular kind : Davy made a model volcano filled with potassium , and poured water into it ; and Faraday flung the fire irons and then the coal-scuttle to a large electromagnet overhead . |
| 13 | For policy-makers , the problems of research and measurement of a large number of important variables , often of a non-quantitative kind , have been severe both in population studies and in soil conservation . |
| 14 | This can result in a relatively rapid turnover of cultural fashions , as one project of this kind succeeds another , and this area of relatively rapid innovation — often of a minor kind — has been important in the later twentieth century , as a direct function of the expansion and increased rate of internal circulation of the market itself . |
| 15 | Such exchanges take place not because people need to obtain what they do not produce but in order to demonstrate and maintain social links , often of an egalitarian kind . |
| 16 | Without an explicit theory , it is not clear whether the important underlying variable is indeed of a psycho-social kind , or whether it is ( for example ) associated with the looser social ties between the individual and the local group which are likely to be congruent with a high level of social ambition . |
| 17 | All this and much else of a similar kind was orthodoxy to the Peripatetics . |