Example sentences of "of a type [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In dealing with this damage , police found an estimated five metric tonnes of fertiliser of a type suitable for use as explosives , ’ he added . |
| 2 | The two men were reputedly friends and these sturdy cat-built vessels were of a type familiar to Cook from his earliest days at sea , apprenticed to a Whitby shipmaster . |
| 3 | Other observers have also detected significant departures from ‘ pure ’ bureaucracy in Soviet systems of government , though these are often of a type familiar to Western students of bureaucracy and have positive results , such as entrepreneurial initiative , departures from hierarchical principles , the development of informal relationships , creativity , pragmatism and instrumentalism ( Granick 1954 ; Armstrong 1965 ; Stewart 1969 ; Hough 1969 ; Churchward 1968 ; Hough 1973 ) . |
| 4 | This Site of Special Scientific Interest covers 74 acres of beautiful ancient woodland of a type uncommon in the East Midlands . |
| 5 | Our survey programmes have been extensive and we have found nothing of a type similar to that which has been found in Derbyshire . |
| 6 | Dating from between 1875 and 1885 , the gilt frame is considered an outstanding example of a type popular during the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Modern Spanish nationalism of a type comparable to nascent nationalism in other European countries was created by the fact of resistance to Napoleon . |
| 8 | For , plainly , such a procedure and the acknowledgement of either authoritative text or persons involve the existence of rules of a type different from the rules of obligation or duty which ex hypothesi are all that the group has . |
| 9 | The government has responded by increasing the military presence in the area , while the " Mindanao Defenders " , an irregular civilian paramilitary force of a type common in the Philippines , is beginning to intimidate the protestors . |
| 10 | But Sony is expected to argue that this contract has moral and legal force , was freely negotiated and is of a type common in the industry . |