Example sentences of "[verb] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attraction of this approach is that most up-to-date and enlightened LEA centres , WEA branches and extra-mural departments can be relied upon to include some kind of women 's studies in their provision which is different in kind from domestic education and men 's education . |
| 2 | Christine believes the problem is much bigger than anyone believes and cited a recent study which claimed as many as one in three children suffer some kind of sexual abuse . |
| 3 | ‘ But is one of the main problems , ’ I asked , ‘ not that there is intense pressure on land in Peru and that , to the campesinos from the Andes , the rainforest offers some kind of an alternative ? ’ |
| 4 | I would like to see some kind of control scheme entailing the reliable and permanent marking of dogs for future identification . |
| 5 | You can usually then begin to see some kind of crazy logic in them . |
| 6 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 7 | Either they operated some kind of taboo against such things , or else the technological relics of past civilisations were commonplace enough for them not to attach importance to a vessel which they must at least suspect to be in operable condition . |
| 8 | About 200 people reported seeing some kind of craft landing near the base in 1980 . |
| 9 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |
| 10 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 11 | And all these little spots denote some kind of bomb or landmine . |
| 12 | However , as the chart indicates , Tory supporters are considerably more likely than Labour supporters to favour a second election , and Liberal Democrats — by a margin of three to one — favour some kind of arrangement . |
| 13 | What with John 's new fitness programme , and the salutary Atlantic air and everything , I myself expected some kind of halfhearted renewal . |
| 14 | This study showed that the opossum does not experience some kind of fit or paralytic unconsciousness . |
| 15 | Hopefully the Unix industry will make some kind of manly showing . |
| 16 | wishing you could make some kind of gesture |
| 17 | could clearly make some kind of differentiation between a conglomerate paying V A T or some such tax whereas er the exception could be made to those people who are not clearly in a position to make er er to say that . |
| 18 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |
| 19 | NUMEROSO : Perhaps he will , but if I were one of the people coming to live here I 'd want some kind of security I think … or would I ? |
| 20 | Would you prefer to have another election so that one party could obtain an overall majority or would you prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be an election for a number of years ? |
| 21 | A somewhat smaller proportion , 43 per cent , would prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be another election for a number of years . |
| 22 | Close inspection reveals that mean smoothing creates relatively large residuals in months adjacent to the strikingly atypical months , where perhaps common sense would suggest otherwise ; if the percentage in February 1985 represents some kind of error , for example , then the less resistant mean has spread this error over into the adjacent months . |
| 23 | Misconception number two is that a Taiwanese factory represents some kind of ecologically disastrous sweatshop , with underpaid conscripts breathing dust and fumes and churning out rubbish guitars for eighteen hours at a stretch . |
| 24 | A verb always makes a link and it always represents some kind of movement . |
| 25 | Since you can not pronounce any utterance without using some kind of tune and rhythm , you will undoubtedly use your own familiar patterns unless you consciously focus on these features in the new language from the beginning of your language study . |
| 26 | Remarkably , both factors appeared as a double band in the acrylamide gels , suggesting some kind of post-translational modification , although the existence of two different factors binding to the same sequence can not be excluded . |
| 27 | I understand , however , that in 1982 , in the Lothian and Borders region , there was an entry on the computer for one in six of the population suggesting some kind of suspicion . |
| 28 | those contacts exist erm I ant anticipate publicity in communicating with local schools and other institutions and things like that and there after merely maintaining some kind of a a a regular advertisement slot in the local paper that says , Yes I 'm still here , because people forget . |
| 29 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 30 | During the middle ages the most important records were at least in some degree legal instruments : whether they transferred land , appointed men to office , warranted expenditure , acquitted revenue officers of their charge , or summoned litigants to court , they conveyed some kind of legally valid authority . |