Example sentences of "kind [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has this image in his head of the kind of person he 'd like to be , it 's a cartoon character … something about 2000 AD . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's a super guy , the kind of person you 'd like your sister to go out with , ’ one of his handlers said . |
| 3 | ‘ Like , you 're the kind of person I 'd like to talk to if I just had a fight with my girlfriend or was in trouble with the law or something . ’ |
| 4 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 5 | At such moments participants find their ‘ public ’ voice and do not need the kind of protection they may have relied on earlier . |
| 6 | Where we are not dealing solely with our own affairs but forming general preferences as to the kind of society we would like to live in , the main pleasures and pains we are concerned with are precisely these pleasures and pains of sympathy . |
| 7 | ‘ This kind of love we 'll keep for ourselves . ’ |
| 8 | You know when Beecham was conducting it once a trumpeter came in early in one of the big silences : the kind of catastrophe you can do nothing about . |
| 9 | If not are not interested in Media Action , could you let me know what other kind of publicity you may require over the next four to six weeks . |
| 10 | One approach to investigating Hymen 's characterization is to identify the other roles for male sopranos in Lully 's ballets in order to establish what kind of affect they may have had . |
| 11 | ( They also do this when they bring their owners dead birds from the garden , an action normally done only as part of the food-training routine when mother cats show their kittens the kind of prey they must later attack . ) |
| 12 | I did n't know what kind of play she might have been pulling . |
| 13 | In the researchers ' view , if the character was to have any kind of success she should reflect a more contemporary lifestyle . |
| 14 | But at the same time , we are not er doing that , and letting D H S S out of s the the kind of provision they ought |
| 15 | But now her outfit , although loose and flowing , was slightly closer to the kind of garment you might expect in SW19 . |
| 16 | Indeed , one of the researchers ' most important tasks is to ascertain for my benefit what kind of conversation we 'll be likely to have — whether the guest talks nineteen to the dozen , in which case I 'll need to prepare lots of questions , or if they take ten minutes to say ‘ Good evening ’ — in which case I 'll start praying . |
| 17 | So erm I mean the justification for this kind of course I would claim is ultimately to try and make people more realistic about what is possible and er the , because th th the advantage of knowing what 's possible is you can avoid impossible experiments that ultimately result in disaster for everyone . |
| 18 | If that s the kind of performance we can expect from well paid professionals god help us . |
| 19 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 20 | If it is argued on the basis of this reply that even a maniac is not beyond redemption and that given the right kind of treatment he might be able to take his place again within society , the argument only serves to show the different moral considerations that can be brought to bear on situations of moral dilemma . |
| 21 | They ask you for every kind of documentation you can imagine and then treat you like some kind of being that is half-human , half-dog , who does n't have any private life of her own . |
| 22 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 23 | She encourages the class to ask questions about Oregon , and the kind of journey they will have to undertake to get there . |
| 24 | She could picture Pete reading the letter on the end of a hard bed covered with a scratchy red blanket , the kind of bed you might find in a hospital , or in the army . |
| 25 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 26 | It 's the kind of music you might have danced to in the 1600s . |
| 27 | The kind of knowledge it can hold consists of preferred settings of all its visible nodes . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | However , it is not the propriety of marriage itself they question — this remains the inevitable end of a young woman 's life ; the issue is what kind of marriage they should aspire to . |
| 30 | These were the feelings of loss at the death of her first husband , which she had not yet worked through , her sense of guilt at letting social services help out , and her feeling of remorse at the kind of marriage she could offer Stanley . |