Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely it is a kind of blasphemy to hold the church responsible for the cruelty and degradation going on around its blackened doors ? |
| 2 | On the other hand , the new kind of assignment resembles the equitable assignment in being subject to equities , i.e. to claims or defences which the debtor or other person might have set up against the assignor . |
| 3 | The kind of bird called the jacana is one . |
| 4 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 5 | The Wedding Dress defines attitudes to marriage , A Different Kind of Love follows the biological clock and Complicity considers the mother-daughter relationship ; while The Chorley Belles claims that life does n't end with the menopause . |
| 6 | The hills were quite flat on the top , forming a kind of plateau overlooking the airport . |
| 7 | This kind of decision fits the model of a ‘ weighing ’ of considerations ; we may think of the man as piling items pro and con on opposite sides of a balance and making his judgement after one side goes down . |
| 8 | And going it alone in this kind of way increases the risks as well as limiting choice . |
| 9 | Derrick Greaves thought Minton was very much opposed to flaccid impressionism or complacent anti-modernism , of the Munnings variety , and saw that he wanted his students to examine brutally and fully what kind of vocabulary suited the needs of the day . |
| 10 | But you 've got to do the right kind of exercise to get the effect er and again when you come to stamina it 's got to be , you 've got to have a bit of the all round to go with the stamina . |
| 11 | Soon after Hamilton 's battle-scarred book came out , moreover , in the spring of 1988 , there appeared in Britain a kind of memoir entitled The Facts-A Novelist 's Autobiography in which the issue was addressed in some passages of exceptional interest — the gaze and forehead of Olympian Zeus after the outcries and the special and professional pleading which had surrounded all but one of these other events . |
| 12 | Top of the Pops stuff does n't , in the sense that people who like to go and see live music do n't people who like that kind of music prefer the dis prefer it in a |
| 13 | It catches people 's imagination , and becomes , as Harry wanted , a kind of pictogram to represent the whole range . |
| 14 | This kind of development characterized the transition from absolution to liberalism , just as the re-emergence of bureaucratic power has marked the transition from the liberal to the interventionist state of monopoly capitalism : ‘ in the last analysis this democracy was erected precisely in order to place institutional limits upon the privileges bequeathed to the administration by the Absolutist State ’ ( Poulantzas 1978 , p. 226 ) . |
| 15 | Instead of the kind of government support the fashion industry receives in other European countries , here there are glossy awards and that 's about it . |
| 16 | But not from the outside : this kind of camp undermines the depth model of identity from inside , being a kind of parody and mimicry which hollows out from within , making depth recede into its surfaces . |
| 17 | A third kind of evidence points the same way : the great collection of canon law known by the mythic name of " Pseudo-Isidore " , the substantial and , despite the inclusion of some forged papal letters , for the most part perfectly genuine residue of the western churches ' institutional life over eight centuries , was produced in the heart of Charles 's kingdom , in the province of Rheims , about 850 . |
| 18 | Each kind of water contained the sewage of London and was supplied with very little attempt at purification . |
| 19 | Confused , she lifted her face to his , a new kind of awareness bringing the colour to her cheeks . |
| 20 | We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ . |
| 21 | But I have to admit that with the exception of the quick GTi and certainly the new 2.8-litre VR6 , the latest Golf is not the kind of car to set the pulses racing . |
| 22 | Typical of the kind of community projects The Body Shop undertakes is one run in collaboration with the Brighton Health Authority . |
| 23 | So what kind of advertising do the companies get for their money ? |
| 24 | You can , you can design any kind of picture to illustrate the land in whatever |
| 25 | They are to my mind just the kind of material to satisfy the curiosity and thirst for knowledge of a young inquiring mind , with the dozens of just-right illustrations complementing the words perfectly . |
| 26 | Louis B. Mayer announced that she was America 's new sweetheart , exactly the kind of actress to make the kind of pictures decent , wholesome citizens needed . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but this kind of thing gives the Government a bad name . |
| 28 | Often , you may find larvae of other kinds of insect sharing the same gall . |
| 29 | — What kinds of error does the teacher correct ? |
| 30 | Long lead times and the need for convergence among different kinds of knowledge explain the peculiar rhythm of knowledge-based innovation , its attractions , and its dangers . |