Example sentences of "[adj] kind of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he 's saying , it 's a kind of complete kind of lateral thinking . |
| 2 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 3 | " Too ghastly , I quite agree , Aunt Tossie put the empty plate back in front of Nicandra and moved towards the sideboard in a predestined kind of way . |
| 4 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 5 | Oh they were just all that kind all those working kind of folks going up the glen . |
| 6 | Mrs. G. is a very respectable kind of woman . ’ |
| 7 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 8 | The next step is to prepare for the audition at a drama school and find the right kind of textual material which will allow you to show the best of yourself . |
| 9 | A lot will depend on your current theatre experience and whether you have done much acting , but finding the right kind of character to work in an audition is going to mean some careful thinking and planning . |
| 10 | Clothes are important — you should wear something which enhances your own self esteem and creates the right kind of impression . |
| 11 | It 's very difficult , though , to say what the right kind of photograph is , for obviously actors are very different , but remember that a good photograph is not necessarily an art photograph . |
| 12 | My search for the right kind of toy cannon . |
| 13 | The coach is also a great help in controlling anxiety , and the right kind of pep talk can work wonders . |
| 14 | It implies , of course , that as long as they have the right kind of causal relations , other machines , apart from brains , can possess mentality ; and it also implies that the study of artificial intelligence and computational modelling is the royal road to understanding mentality . |
| 15 | Neurons do not individually have the property of consciousness , consciousness emerges when a large number of neurons are interacting in the right kind of way ; just as speed is a property not of any single component of a car , but an emergent property of the whole system when it is operating in an appropriate way . |
| 16 | ‘ Yet with the right kind of controls , and the development of proper management for the species , the caiman could be conserved and still create income for local people and foreign exchange for the government . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Knowledge is power — the right kind of knowledge , ’ he liked to say . |
| 18 | ‘ Knowledge is power — the right kind of knowledge , ’ he liked to say . |
| 19 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 20 | It is necessary for you to take this kind of positive approach ; think in terms of maximizing the number of nutrients that you derive from food by eating the right kind of balance of different foods during meals . |
| 21 | The Tech-Greens are probably breeding the right kind of people right at this minute . ’ |
| 22 | You get the interest by inviting good speakers to talk on the right subjects and by your format variety and , wherever possible , the right kind of sparkle . |
| 23 | An obvious method is to advertise but be careful that you aim the right kind Of advertising in the right direction , otherwise it is money badly spent . |
| 24 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , unfilled vacancies were the highest for a year , a further indication that ‘ we are in the right kind of atmosphere to benefit from the recovery ’ . |
| 26 | High structural unemployment makes alternative thinking about labour intensivity , for example more acceptable ; with less money available , small scale and community based schemes , using local resources and motivated by indigenous imagination stand far more chance of getting off the ground , provided they can obtain the right kind of encouragement and support . |
| 27 | An action does not become good simply because it is motivated by a good will , or by the right kind of ‘ thinking ’ , at least not in international relations . |
| 28 | The Earth is just the right distance from a star , the Sun , which is of just the right kind of size . |
| 29 | But her supper table was renowned ; it was likely to attract the right kind of dissolute young man , coming out of the theatre or on his way to a private gambling party . |
| 30 | Then , of course , we had to plaster it using the right kind of plaster . ’ |