Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adj] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third example , revealing yet another kind of subordination , takes us to the University of Paris where two fourteenth-century scholars , Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme , considered the possibility that the earth may rotate on its axis . |
| 2 | The first is a highly fortuitous and austere way : namely that the compound might have the same effect — the transfer of some particular kind of information — sufficiently often and sufficiently advantageously for there to be some selective advantage in its coming standardly to possess that significance : that is , for it to acquire the biological function of transmitting just that kind of information . |
| 3 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 4 | With still not loosing site of the idea of having a cafe , bar , coffee for people , one of the things that were , that gon na look through and explore explore actually is er setting up some kind of coffee bar facilities at Kingsmoor , the play barn , there next to them . |
| 5 | Q. Can you give me any information on Britain 's common toad as I am interested in raising some tadpoles — presently spawn — from a friend 's pond with a view to setting up some kind of vivarium for housing a mature toad . |
| 6 | He asked me if I was sure I was n't working up some kind of plot against the Threarah and he got awfully angry and suspicious . |