Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adj] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His strenuous efforts to drum up any kind of interest in this product , already nicknamed the Foldie , has increasingly resembled a man trying to hammer-throw in a wardrobe . |
| 2 | I mean , it er portrait really is the right sort of subject to , to try out this kind of technique because er , it does n't have impact , and here because the green and the erm er , this , th for want of a better colour , it 's really red , it 's a sort of purply colour , they 're very dark and th the , the actual head does n't really stand out very much from the from the background , I think the background |
| 3 | At the same time I practised assiduously my calculus of personal ritual to ward off any kind of eidesis . |
| 4 | Not every day I get a chance to pick up that kind of money for doing practically nothing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It was supposed to wipe out that kind of thinking , and replace it with liberty , equality and brotherhood . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps she had often had to put up this kind of defence Ianthe thought . |
| 7 | Quarrels between brothers and sisters provide the ideal training-ground to carry out this kind of teaching . |
| 8 | Professional associations would seem to be well placed in terms of expertise and disinterest to carry out this kind of selection . |
| 9 | erm I E you 've got an enormous area where sometimes you 're moving in very quickly , and particularly in Manchuria y you 're trying to get there extremely quickly , and you , you have n't got the time to build up that kind of infrastructure , but that is gon na come later . |
| 10 | I shall name just the latest , launched yesterday evening — the British Emergency Action for Russia and the Republics Trust , founded by Lady Braithwaite , the wife of the ambassador — which is trying to bring together in an imaginative way charities and non-governmentalorganisations in this country to make contacts and help to build up that kind of self-help in Russia . |
| 11 | I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that . |
| 12 | The retina contains only nine light detectors , but by scanning the image up to ten times each second it is able to build up some kind of picture . |
| 13 | I must say , the diplomatic bag works extremely fast in both directions , so we are managing to keep up some kind of dialogue : she was insistent that I get out of ffeatherstonehaugh 's as much as possible . |
| 14 | There simply is n't enough money in the world to build enough roads to soak up that kind of demand . |
| 15 | In our case , the excluders want to keep out both kinds of fool : people with learning difficulties themselves and their fool advocates , those people who represent the rival philosophy and advocate their inclusion . |
| 16 | In the context of a thorough-going twentieth-century challenge to religious belief , it is easy to see how this kind of retreat to a self-contained theism becomes attractive . |
| 17 | Precisely that 's why this is an excellent moment to offer precisely that kind of aid because those obstacles have been largely removed . |
| 18 | Some are specialist killers , like the Peregrine Falcon where individuals tend to take only one kind of bird . |
| 19 | But even he would n't have dared to dream up this kind of swansong to his long football life . |
| 20 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OF 1909 In all seriousness , my Lords , we have a right to ask where this kind of thing is going to stop . |
| 21 | Companies , generally speaking , tend to produce relatively few kinds of waste — mainly paper , say , or mainly metal scrap — which makes recycling easier . |
| 22 | The brewery , which serves export markets as well as the domestic Irish market and Northern Ireland , is now one of the most efficient and flexible in the world , with the facilities to produce virtually any kind of beer from the same plant . |