Example sentences of "make some kind " in BNC.

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1 Hopefully the Unix industry will make some kind of manly showing .
2 wishing you could make some kind of gesture
3 could clearly make some kind of differentiation between a conglomerate paying V A T or some such tax whereas er the exception could be made to those people who are not clearly in a position to make er er to say that .
4 The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope .
5 Nearly everyone made some kind of a contribution .
6 A few hours ago this all made some kind of sense .
7 He made some kind of deal with Erica Brausen a sort of transfer fee : it was like being a football player .
8 He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions .
9 She made some kind of gesture .
10 At the same time , the very seriousness of the crisis and the desperate resort to terrorism that its collapse prompted among the pieds noirs made some kind of speedy settlement seem all the more imperative .
11 In some countries they spend days after a death , have a wake or make some kind of celebration out of it .
12 We are beginning to wonder what it what it takes to engage in good faith negotiations as a business with the state of California , if all it takes is one person to get up , make some kind of scurrilous allegations , and throw the entire bidding in into cast some kind of doubt upon it .
13 Nonni should have answered , of course , that they stayed cleaner longer , which would have made some kind of sense to my aunts .
14 Despite the shock she had received , she could see that what Oswin said made some kind of sense .
15 Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme .
16 Perhaps , though , he might stroll out in the direction of the church hall , to see if people were coming out , then he would feel that he had made some kind of an effort .
17 as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position .
18 ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’
19 He thought that the L could stand for Larksoken and that the Whistler might be making some kind of statement about nuclear power , a protest perhaps . ’
20 It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution .
21 We can also legitimately ask to what extent people are rational in the sense of making some kind of calculation concerning the best way to satisfy their needs .
22 ‘ You know she 's working with Blake , making some kind of deal with him .
23 ‘ We set fire to it , ’ said the visitor , anxious to make some kind of philosophical statement .
24 ‘ I also liked the idea of producing images of people in the public eye which do n't adhere to the unwritten rule of portraiture — that you 've got to make some kind of personal comment about the sitter , capture their essence , if you like — which , at twenty four , I did n't feel particularly qualified to do .
25 He felt he had to make some kind of protest , no matter how feeble .
26 He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first .
27 Sooner or later there is little doubt that the reticent Prince of Wales will have to make some kind of statement .
28 One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock .
29 I feel we 're about to make some kind of breakthrough , but it 's not there yet .
30 We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’
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