Example sentences of "[adv] the kind [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can forget for a while the rigours faced everyday and appreciate wholeheartedly the kind of escapism that lies at the root of ‘ The Passionate Shepherd to his love ’ and ‘ The Garden ’ and all other poems which make up the pastoral garden . |
| 2 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |
| 3 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 4 | Even along this road , however , many of the old ‘ guilds ’ had become , in effect , the organizations of employing ‘ masters ’ — the craft status shifted to the economic status — and these were themselves in complex relations with the development of capitalist trade , which was breaking down the kind of autonomy from which the guilds , new and old , had derived their monopoly . |
| 5 | Erm , you know , perhaps the kind of way people look on President today . |
| 6 | Tim Renton is obviously the kind of person who would turn the volume down on a Johnny Mathis 78 . |
| 7 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |
| 8 | He 's obviously the kind of guy who spends more time snogging at the bar than watching the band . |
| 9 | This was very much the kind of stuff that Quigley was used to dishing out . |
| 10 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 11 | In short , it is very much the kind of hut in very much the kind of village with which Darién is amply overstocked . |
| 12 | … what is ultimately at stake is not so much the kind of criticism television ( and film ) should get as the kind of television [ and film ] criticism should demand . |
| 13 | In short , it is very much the kind of hut in very much the kind of village with which Darién is amply overstocked . |
| 14 | This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened . |
| 15 | He noticed Schellenberg the moment he entered , not because he recognized him , only the kind of man he was . |
| 16 | Hal was not putting much care into the preparation of the food , only the kind of pill . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Just the kind of person we want at St Basil 's . ’ |
| 19 | Consider an example from the new Collins Cobuild dictionary ( 1987 ) , of which Sinclair is editor-in-chief and which is based on just the kind of computer analysis of text that he refers to . |
| 20 | This is just the kind of system that encourages crime . |
| 21 | For this reason , Tinbergen suggested the courtship signal was ancestrally a displacement activity , which is just the kind of activity one would expect from an animal during courtship . |
| 22 | And that is just the kind of order , it seems to me , which ought to have been granted if the plaintiffs ' contentions are correct . |
| 23 | Guy Sterne was just the kind of man to treat women as objects for sexual gratification , and as obliging servants to keep house and serve his meals … |
| 24 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 25 | Now his club 's tighthead , he has gone out of this way to improve his scrummaging technique with specialist advice from among others , his boss , Sandy Carmichael , the 50-times capped Scottish and Lions tighthead Iain Milne ( ‘ immensely helpful ’ ) and Jim Telfer ( ‘ he is just the kind of coach I need because I can be a bit lazy and the fact that he just keeps at you all the time was very good for me ’ ) . |
| 26 | Increased versatility of learning would confer great selective advantage and is just the kind of change that might lead to the very rapid evolution of neocortex , so we can add this to global connectivity and greater genetic control as possible causes of the neopallial explosion . |
| 27 | The photo might have been modelled on those sent by the Red Brigades during the Moro kidnapping , but where those middle-class intellectuals had used the centre-left Repubblica to mark the date , Ruggiero Miletti was holding the Nazione , just the kind of paper which a bunch of good Catholic boys like the kidnappers would choose . |
| 28 | They are to my mind just the kind of material to satisfy the curiosity and thirst for knowledge of a young inquiring mind , with the dozens of just-right illustrations complementing the words perfectly . |
| 29 | Well it was just so funny , it 's just the kind of place you 'd expect to see naughty boys , there was you sitting to the |
| 30 | If the object reflecting the echoes were not a static tree but a moving insect , the Doppler consequences would be more complicated , but the bat could still calculate the velocity of relative motion between itself and its target , obviously just the kind of information a sophisticated guided missile like a hunting bat needs . |