Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That er they were all more or less that kind of band . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When this happens it means that the animal has suffered some kind of temperature-increasing illness , such as a prolonged fever , or possibly some kind of shock or trauma . |
| 4 | Novels , for instance , have less in common with lyric poetry than with other forms of extended narrative , such as historiography , biography , autobiography — a genre of which there have been some interesting studies lately — or even some kinds of essay . |
| 5 | Throughout the philosophy of mind and certainly amongst both lay and professional psychologists there is the view that basically two kinds of fact exist : physical facts about the brain and the external world , on the one hand , and facts ‘ about how it is with us ’ , on the other . |
| 6 | After these preliminary remarks , we will now set out the main methods of accompaniment structure , bearing in mind that frequently one kind of structure may be fused with another , that colour factors may be combined with movement elements , etc . |
| 7 | Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Got to have at least two degrees , if not three kind of thing . |
| 10 | And once this kind of polarization is set in motion , it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in which everyone who is not with us is against us . |
| 11 | The expression ‘ conjugal rights ’ gains a new and more reciprocal kind of meaning . |
| 12 | There should be schools of different sizes with different disciplinary procedures ; not all children respond to the same approach … and even different kinds of curriculum . |
| 13 | I agree that the SPL ( sound pressure level ) of speakers should be given by the manufacturer , and maybe some kind of SPL/dB/wattage equation could be thought up and listed , rather like the BHP reading for motor cars . |
| 14 | Only one so far — or this was the first he had heard of , but the affair could snowball and sometimes this kind of thing took an unforeseen twist . |
| 15 | The printer has several advantages over conventional printers ; it is almost silent , the printhead is very light and so powerful motors are not needed and almost any kind of paper can be used . |
| 16 | Alongside whatever direct impact petitions had on MPs , some printed material and very particular kinds of evidence were channelled straight to parliamentarians — especially the results of quantifying aspects of the slave trade and slavery and the direct testimony of witnesses whose authenticity was expected to impress . |
| 17 | ( v ) development of complex amplificatory , extending and reproductive technical systems , which make possible new kinds of presentation of all the preceding types , but also new kinds of presentation of practices still otherwise based on the use of inherent and constituted resources . |
| 18 | This provided not only an overview of the stated intentions of Major Project schools but also some kind of check that the six schools chosen as the focus for our study were in these terms not atypical . |
| 19 | But how many kinds of sentence are there ? |
| 20 | We were a pioneer of a necessary but very undesirable kind of activity . |
| 21 | The first is that we do not see how states could possibly be regarded as merely one kind of actor among several on the international scene . |
| 22 | Visitor pressure and the often mindless or downright destructive behaviour of some of the people who come to this area have annoyed some farmers so much that they look on walkers as just another kind of vermin — and there are many times when I can sympathise with this attitude completely . |
| 23 | Initially , philosophers interested in reference ( with some notable exceptions ) did not pay a great deal of attention to indexicals ( Bar-Hillel , 1970 : 76 ) ; then they began to treat them as very special kinds of expression requiring contextual co-ordinates or indices , as sketched above . |