Example sentences of "[vb pp] the kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it may be ( as in my case ) because one deeply cares that there should be good and equal relations between men and women that one is adamant that no one human being can be given the kind of status which Christians give to Christ . |
| 2 | Given the kind of society that we have at the moment , I think so , because in the home — I mean aside from being defined as a housewife — you 're really defined only in relation to other people , so what you say about self definition , erm self fulfilment , is absolutely crucial . |
| 3 | ‘ Especially when he must have guessed the kind of reception he 'd get . ’ |
| 4 | They are paying tribute to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe 's policy of reconciliation , which had forestalled the kind of ‘ white flight ’ from the commercial sector that helped cripple the modernizing economies of African countries in the 1960s . |
| 5 | You know , you 've met the kind of person who 's so sure they 're right they wo n't listen to anything , you know , they 're , they 're self-righteous and arrogant and that 's because their superego is very very strong . |
| 6 | WP Have you always done the kind of work you do now ? |
| 7 | I know it 's early days yet , but White has n't made the kind of impact we 'd hoped for . |
| 8 | Though not an out-and-out cheapskate , he was thought the kind of man who would try to squeeze a shilling into a pound by whatever means . |
| 9 | She did n't like being thought the kind of woman who would steal another woman 's husband . |
| 10 | In this area , at least , the would-be functionalist is offered the kind of rich and intricate structure that may match the detailed organization of linguistic structure , and so can be claimed plausibly to stand in a causal relation to it . |
| 11 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 12 | Still , the idea that they could have had the kind of torrid relationship that leads to murder was another matter . |
| 13 | She would never have had the kind of success she 's had , with Broadway and so on , if she 'd stayed at home in England waiting to be asked . |
| 14 | Having got the kind of structure it had always insisted upon , it seems clear that Britain had no qualms about such a statement being used to promote some version of supranationalism . |
| 15 | He 's got the kind of seriousness which he admires , and a certain way of leaning forward as he shows Howard round , as if he is eager to understand the world but finds it rather difficult . |
| 16 | He 's always had his heart in , in diplomacy and he 's got the kind of authority you need for this . |
| 17 | Even if he had got the kind of constitution that he wanted , could he have stomached the long period of economic rebuilding — with all its attendant constraints — that lay ahead of France in 1946 ? |
| 18 | ‘ Licensed retailers have now got the kind of security they have long desired and the chance to take their own business into their own hands and reap the rewards , by being able to play to their strengths and provide what their customers want . |
| 19 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 20 | Yet the club has avoided the kind of foul-up that ruined this year 's Grand National steeplechase because of primitive starting procedures supervised by another archaic British body , the Jockey Club . |
| 21 | They had tried out various ‘ templates ’ — all of them embellishments on what already existed — but none of them had shown the kind of delicacy required . |
| 22 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 23 | ‘ Breathtaking ’ is an overworked brochure cliche , but you 'll find it very apt when you 've experienced the kind of scenery we 're talking about . |
| 24 | She 'd known the kind of man he was . |
| 25 | As a result , Ireland was spared the kind of violence with which Rome established her sovereignty elsewhere . |
| 26 | Until not long ago several of the national unions whose local officers or shop stewards had negotiated the kind of agreements just described were fiercely opposed to the introduction or use of temporary workers . |
| 27 | And I know many older women who have found the kind of partnership that adds to their life rather than subtracts from it . |
| 28 | He does not deny that some scientists and engineers in British industry are doing world-class research — the signal and image processing work at British Telecom 's labs is an example , says Sir Eric — but he would argue that there are no world-class labs as such in the UK , nowhere that has attained the kind of critical mass in R&D that Bell Labs has in the US or Hitachi and NEC in Japan . |
| 29 | As a result of the controversy over the rejection by the Royal Academy of his portrait of T. S. Eliot , Lewis had resumed the kind of fame he had attained before the First World War . |
| 30 | It is only occasionally , as in the case of Fowles or Durrell , for example , that postmodernism has generated the kind of respect and popularity enjoyed by authors such as Thomas Pynchon , Italo Calvino and Gabriel García Márquez . |