Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fine to stay at this kind of level for a while . |
| 2 | And er we find that those of us who are working with homeless people are increasingly simply trying to find some kind of shelter for a few nights rather than actually trying to find a home for people . |
| 3 | But even from that the soaring fantasy needs to be pruned : Dryden believed Pericles to be Shakespeare 's earliest play , presumably his ugliest apprentice work , dug up from the pre-Titus Andronicus strata of foul papers ( in one of those great trunks that he probably left in the Mountjoys ' attic , in Silver Street , to be destroyed in the Great Fire ) , and now rewritten under pressure for a new kind of play for the Blackfriars stage . |
| 4 | Parsons became a kind of spokesman for a generation , within the music press at least . |
| 5 | If the housing market is some kind of barometer for the rest of the economy , it may be time for a mile sigh of relief . |
| 6 | ‘ Probably had a funny kind of weakness for a sort of orphanage face , ’ said Joe . |
| 7 | These shimmering fables , in which an ageing heroine , a ‘ sweet Shura ’ or a Zhenechka , guards her faded mementos and sharp , unfinished memories in defiance of history , help us to understand , perhaps , the drive behind the current , terrifyingly fearless race towards 19th-century-style capitalism : that it is not only a hunger for consumer goods , but a kind of nostalgia for a glamour all the more potent because few now remember it . |
| 8 | It was foolish to allow any kind of hope for the future to take root . |
| 9 | In ( b ) we are not asking the student to make up any bed but a particular kind of bed for a particular patient . |
| 10 | One could argue that such complaints constitute some kind of rationale for a general feeling that there are too many incomers in the area . |
| 11 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 12 | Clare began to feel a foolish kind of affection for the umbrella that was doing them both such sterling service . |
| 13 | Consider it as a kind of insurance for the odd times when you are not losing weight quite as you should . |
| 14 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 15 | Or if an adult hospital patient with young children is known to be terminally ill , it should be possible to provide some kind of support for the spouse and the children in preparation for their loss , in order that they may work through their grief and come to terms with their new situation . |
| 16 | From the point of view of prevention , this suggests that when a lack of care arises in the context of marital separation or parental death , some kind of support for the single parent may be particularly valuable . |
| 17 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 18 | The obvious lightness of the skeleton meant that this kind of existence for an air-breathing semi-aquatic animal would have been particularly inappropriate , because of the buoyancy of their air-filled bodies . |
| 19 | I 'll tell you what else you can do ; you can make half a dozen or so of those currant buns of yours and take them with you on Saturday as a kind of present for the lady . ’ |
| 20 | Thus the statement that That 's a dog entails That 's an animal can be viewed as a kind of shorthand for a pattern of normality like the following : |
| 21 | There is even a kind of envy for the depth of vision which this fate is thought to produce . |
| 22 | Herodotus was able to establish some kind of time-sequence for the two centuries before his time , but he was a more diffuse writer than Thucydides , who was concerned with many events occurring in a shorter time interval . |
| 23 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 24 | If you decide to use an active sentence to describe Figure 14 , you might create a frame such as ‘ The N V-ed the N with a N ’ : this is the right kind of frame for an active sentence with three nouns and a verb . |
| 25 | This kind of desire for a natural — and ‘ reasonable ’ — religion developed strongly in deism , and led to the same kind of conflict with orthodoxy as with the Bible and miracles . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , you must make him wear a wig or some kind of decoration for the performance itself . ’ |
| 27 | The nineteenth century brought a new kind of search for the basis and foundation of theology itself ; a fresh attempt to bring human awareness and experience into the centre of theological study ; the forging of more specialised techniques for the literary and historical study of the Bible , techniques whose application helped to raise what were often felt to be disturbing and challenging questions about its meaning and relevance as well as about the standing and authority of established Christian doctrines ; and the sharp new question whether Christian theology itself ought not to be subsumed under some more general study of religion and religions . |
| 28 | When you pay good money for a standard rose , you do n't expose it to this kind of danger for the sake of short-lived appearances . |
| 29 | Crippled as he was from many falls , only lately taking their toll , he found in the lawn mower a kind of substitute for the experiences of earlier , dangerous days . |
| 30 | He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage . |