Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pity , to him the most selfless kind of love , had produced hatred . |
| 2 | It must be admitted that in deliberately excluding considerations of principle we are crediting the traveller with a rather narrow kind of intelligence , acute though it may be . |
| 3 | The very next year ( 1590 ) he provided music for the pastoral interludes of Tasso 's Aminta and two other pastorals which was in an ‘ altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ’ , presumably some kind of recitative . |
| 4 | The membership of this minority was never defined , nor was its need for a fundamentally different kind of teaching explained or justified . |
| 5 | Probably the most demanding kind of speech recording is that of voice-over commentary — it is so easy to make it sound embarrassingly amateurish . |
| 6 | So through that dismal day Hugh Templar sat at his kitchen table and pursued the adventures of a team of space-travellers who had discovered a world directly behind the sun , which was a mirror-image of our own Earth , with the same physical composition , but with a rather different kind of population , a race having strange and , I hoped , thought-provoking ideas about how to run their planet … |
| 7 | First , as Mercer and Julien remind us , such an equivalence tends to obscure exactly those differences which need to be addressed if we are to understand not only each kind of discrimination separately but also their interconnections ( ‘ Race , Sexuality and Black Masculinity ’ , 99 — 100 ) . |
| 8 | The new show is very much that kind of format , except I wo n't be doing any vicars or skinheads . |
| 9 | The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is at first sight a much simpler kind of formation . |
| 10 | It 's not it 's not actually in here but I 've got erm perhaps that kind of colour |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps that kind of thing runs in families — in the blood . ’ |
| 12 | His father was a public relations man for Dr Barnardo 's Homes and would chat away and do all that kind of thing , whereas David was very much like his mother in terms of showing affection . |
| 13 | That er they were all more or less that kind of band . |
| 14 | Perhaps some kind of spell was broken . |
| 15 | It is , after all , only another kind of sentimentality , drowning the painful scene in the self-indulgent feelings of the onlooker . |
| 16 | Naturally this kind of thing would require a change of name . |
| 17 | It is surprising how long this kind of grudge can be remembered , perhaps because the occasion is inextricably mixed with feelings of loss and deprivation caused by the parent 's death . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's obviously some kind of misunderstanding here . |
| 19 | I 've got to assimilate a much broader kind of spectrum outside the interests of climbers in national parks . |
| 20 | Honestly , it sounded to me as if he was giving them all some kind of ultimatum . ’ |
| 21 | Obviously this kind of argument is not limited to biochemistry . |
| 22 | For twelve years after J. and I were married we lived first in West and then East Africa , an entirely different kind of life from what had gone before . |
| 23 | An entirely different kind of problem in modern living is ‘ noise pollution ’ and that term is increasingly being used to describe the problem of excessive noise . |
| 24 | All you need is an ‘ I know what you mean ’ or ‘ I can see what you 're getting at ’ for an entirely different kind of discussion to begin . |
| 25 | Naturally enough this kind of discourse is not unrelated to the facts of the situation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But a less obvious kind of evidence may , according to Labov , be provided by some kind of irregularity in the expected pattern of differentiation according to speech style , or sex or social class of speaker . |
| 28 | These important studies , made at night with great patience ( Charles-Dominique and Martin 1972 ) , show that at the very root of the primate evolution we have an extremely loose kind of relationship between the sexes . |
| 29 | As the following examples indicate , there is considerable divergence among the relationships indicated by expressions which have been classified as apposition markers : Burton-Roberts ( forthcoming ) comments that the differences between these expressions shows that apposition is " an extremely loose kind of relation subsuming such functions as gloss , elucidation , reformulation , exemplification , and even correction " . |
| 30 | 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 . |