Example sentences of "in [adj] kind of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 2 | Even in areas outside this great span — in Australia for example , the South Pacific or Amerindia — the main detailed knowledge that we have of these cultures is — almost by definition — in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write . |
| 3 | identify the key issues that arise in each kind of interaction ; |
| 4 | The failure to engage in that kind of self-reflection was part of a self-assurance over the wider common culture . |
| 5 | cautious and and er suspicious and also angry about being labelled in that kind of way . |
| 6 | ‘ But men and women never do match each other in that kind of way — that 's life . ’ |
| 7 | In that kind of way he was never any trouble . |
| 8 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 9 | Nor do I for a moment suppose that anyone there recognized him , nor was he the sort of author who basked in that kind of admiration . |
| 10 | For example , and I 'm not saying this is , this is so , but it 's not unusual in that kind of dream if it 's recurring in the present , to find that really it 's about the present and not about the past . |
| 11 | Moving on to Zimbabwe 's admission to Test ranks , one can only congratulate them and wish them well , while inevitably questioning their prospects in that kind of company . |
| 12 | How difficult do you think it wo it would be in actually involving e people in that kind of decision making . |
| 13 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 14 | There 's no point , I do n't think , in that kind of pretension to an absolute objectivity , and some of my colleagues in the department do , and I think that 's regrettable , and I do n't think it serves any useful function . |
| 15 | He looked dazed — he who is always so unruffled , so controlled — he muttered something like fancy her being interested in that kind of stuff . |
| 16 | A big bream is a very deep-bodied fish and would have to stand almost tail to surface to pick a bait direct from the bottom with its lips , which I know they do when they are in that kind of mood . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's better , ’ said Joe , ‘ in that kind of mood I could put you on a horse and let you join in the charge of the Light Brigade . ’ |
| 18 | I knew then that is she was in that kind of mood there was no point in staying around . |
| 19 | Oh it 's gon na take me half an hour to decide what I want now , I 'm in that kind of mood ! |
| 20 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 21 | We as a as a policy unit get involved in that kind of work as well , so working with departments , looking at new initiative 's and trying to work with them . |
| 22 | I 'd like to be the leader of some gang , if there 's a good profit to be made in that kind of work . ’ |
| 23 | Is there a few of you who are actually involved in that kind of work ? |
| 24 | And you stayed in that kind of work until you got married , ? |
| 25 | So it started in that kind of fashion really . |
| 26 | But do you think it 's appropriate to teach sex in that kind of detail to school children ? |
| 27 | Money was , particularly , no object , you follow what I mean , people in that kind of business . |
| 28 | Er Mr Ashdown says er no reason to disagree with him , that he was always in favour of the things in the social contract , but he did n't want them handled in that kind of manner . |
| 29 | ‘ In that kind of form they will give any team in the country a game . |
| 30 | My aim is to start further ‘ up-stream ’ than that , by helping teachers who wish it , to get in a frame of mind where they can be interested in that kind of advice . |