Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] kind of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 2 | It can only come in as some kind of ‘ emergent property ’ of all these causal interactions . |
| 3 | Groups went in for all kinds of sponsored walks , knit-ins , beard-shavings , and even silence . |
| 4 | But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . |
| 5 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 6 | In this theory , money is seen as just one of a number of ways in which wealth can be held , along with all kinds of financial assets , consumer durables , property and ‘ human wealth ’ . |
| 7 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 8 | I mean it was down to that kind of detail . |
| 9 | But you 're too good at your job to give in to that kind of temptation . |
| 10 | This chapter is an attempt to sort these various pro- and anti-classical elements in to some kind of order . |
| 11 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 12 | It was certainly not bogged down by any kind of personal dogma , and I resent that accusation . |
| 13 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 14 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
| 15 | Well , I 'm not one to soldier on with this kind of treatment . |
| 16 | But I wanted to do employment , I want to get on with this kind of job , it 's going to be a major political issue , and by God I 'm gon na put it right up front . |
| 17 | It seems that the quality of information built up through this kind of rating is different from that collected during more detached observations . |
| 18 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 19 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 20 | ‘ The world is made up of two kinds of people — those who puncture their blisters and those that do n't . |
| 21 | But the greater proportion of goods traffic was not carried in specials but in ordinary merchandise trains , made up of all kinds of vehicles containing an assortment of commodities , raw and manufactured . |
| 22 | Each paradigm will regard the world as being made up of different kinds of things . |
| 23 | And I had never come up against this kind of approach before . |
| 24 | if we can keep up with that kind of play — and — get those goals we will do OK. im still worried both with the back-five and the attackers — against better oppositon or away things — might — not look as good as on monday . |
| 25 | I 'm sure you 'll come up with all kinds of ideas of your own , but for starters why do n't you do something you know really well — the world of fashion . ’ |
| 26 | The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses . |
| 27 | ‘ I think we 'll end up with some kind of big confrontation , ’ he said , leaning back in his desk chair , surrounded by other desks and with an open window looking over the rest of downtown . |
| 28 | ‘ What I thought , ’ says Freddie , ‘ was that we could fix you up with some kind of nominal job in the organization … ’ |
| 29 | They had endured an embarrassing fund-raising dinner , for which rich Americans had paid 5,000 dollars a ticket , only to discover on their return that the Confederation of British Industry had done nothing to follow it up with any kind of sales drive . |
| 30 | Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ? |