Example sentences of "[det] kind of " 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 Each kind of bulb has its own particular planting depth , which should be explained on the packaging or in the catalogue .
4 Obviously , each kind of experience necessarily contains elements of the other .
5 First , as Mercer and Julien remind us , such an equivalence tends to obscure exactly those differences which need to be addressed if we are to understand not only each kind of discrimination separately but also their interconnections ( ‘ Race , Sexuality and Black Masculinity ’ , 99 — 100 ) .
6 The best and easiest way to ensure that you get a large range of bricks and enough of each kind of brick that you need to build and repair your body cells , is to mix the protein foods you take in at each meal .
7 The nature of the cellular changes responsible for tissue differentiation are not well understood , but at the cellular level they do qualify as hereditary changes : each kind of cell gives rise to its own kind at cell division .
8 Because islands are smaller than continents ( by definition ) the populations of each kind of animal are also bound to be small .
9 Many years of research in many places have been devoted to working out the best ways of using surgery , radiation , and drugs to treat each kind of solid tumour and of using radiation and drugs for those disseminated cancers , such as the leukaemias , in which no central growth can be removed .
10 I tabulated these faunas , estimated the numbers of each kind of animal in each fauna , and then calculated the percentage representation of each kind of animal .
11 I tabulated these faunas , estimated the numbers of each kind of animal in each fauna , and then calculated the percentage representation of each kind of animal .
12 Then I plotted the changes in the percentage of each kind of animal against time .
13 Even so , the design and making of satisfactory test-pieces calls for a modest degree of skill and experience as the best shape will be different for each kind of material .
14 The latter are increasingly available but specific for each kind of snake , so that immediate and accurate identification of the species is essential .
15 The other is to add together all the personnel costs for each kind of worker from the original job advertisement through to the retirement or redundancy payments .
16 The scheme is backed up with tough quotas , both for the amount of each kind of packaging to be collected , and for the amount to be recycled .
17 As Table 4.1 shows , two-thirds of the cases of each kind of offence appeared in only one newspaper .
18 If a sponge is forced through a fine gauze sieve so that it is broken down into separate cells , these will eventually reorganise themselves into a sponge , each kind of cell finding its appropriate place within the body .
19 Each kind of water contained the sewage of London and was supplied with very little attempt at purification .
20 With several separate aquaria , each kind of animal can be given the type of food it needs , and animals that feed on other animals can be kept apart .
21 Each kind of eagle has its sacred site in whose sanctuary dark forces weaken and lose their grip .
22 The candidate should , therefore , add , as a minimum , a discussion of such cases as Cundy v. Lindsay and Lewis v. Averay in order to illustrate the effect of each kind of contract ( or apparent contract ) upon third-party rights .
23 The systematic questioning of the efficiency and importance of each kind of public-sector job had a searching effect on a previously fairly stable geographical pattern of employment .
24 Each kind of animal lives best in a particular environment .
25 It is now straightforward to calculate how many points each strategy will recover from each kind of possible encounter .
26 Each kind of protein machine churns out its own particular chemical product .
27 In the past , each kind of unit has been expressed in a rather different way , by means of a different type of unit specification , or module descriptor .
28 And aspects of the quality assurance for each kind of unit also differed .
29 Dealers take account of the areas sown with each kind of grain , of the forwardness and weight of the crops , of the supply of things which can be used as substitutes for grain , and of the things for which grain can be used as a substitute .
30 identify the key issues that arise in each kind of interaction ;
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