Example sentences of "[to-vb] 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 | I would like to see some kind of control scheme entailing the reliable and permanent marking of dogs for future identification . |
| 3 | You can usually then begin to see some kind of crazy logic in them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The local authority has arranged for the twins to attend some kind of daycare centre . |
| 6 | If the pool sides are vertical or very steep , it may be necessary to erect some kind of formwork . |
| 7 | It is quite clear that in the not too distant future arrangements will need to be made to enable those with non-graduate qualifications from the University , or with qualifications directly recognised by it , to continue some kind of formal association with the institution after the satisfactory completion of their courses . |
| 8 | Typically , you use an analysis or description of a text to claim some kind of connection between the features analysed and something else about the text , such as its meaning , its effect on a reader , how good it is , or its historical origins . |
| 9 | I think it 's more constructive ; we 're always going to make weapons of some kind , ships of some kind , boats , we 're always going to drive some kind of vehicle , and we 're always going to need hospital equipment . |
| 10 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 11 | They have to serve a cooked breakfast here to meet some kind of official standard . |
| 12 | Following the section assessment 84 per cent of males and 95 per cent of females were considered to suffer some kind of mental disorder . |
| 13 | ‘ If you have privilege you have no option but to accept some kind of obligation . ’ |
| 14 | I wanted it to be over , to return to the innocence and freedom of life before the kidnap , for John to be safe , for us all to know some kind of certainty instead of this constant doubt and anxiety , to be able to think of the future again . |
| 15 | Herodotus was able to establish some kind of time-sequence for the two centuries before his time , but he was a more diffuse writer than Thucydides , who was concerned with many events occurring in a shorter time interval . |
| 16 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 17 | Thanks to the help of Edna and Bert , Harriet soon began to establish some kind of order and routine at Four Winds . |
| 18 | It was an excellent vehicle for an emerging West European voice on defence issues as distinct from a NATO position in order ( with France still outside NATO ) to establish some kind of common ground at a time when it seemed possible that the two superpowers might actually manage to reach an agreement on levels of nuclear armaments that might not take Western European interests into account . |
| 19 | At this stage nearly a month had elapsed since the watercolour , so it was important to return to the first study to establish some kind of modus operandi for the oil . |
| 20 | The draft union treaty was clearly superseded by these developments , and as the Kazakh president , Nursultan Nazarbaev , told the USSR Supreme Soviet when it reconvened in early September , only a much looser confederation would satisfy the aspirations of the republics that still wished to establish some kind of association . |
| 21 | Mark had been visiting , trying to establish some kind of contact with his exotic parishioners and hoping to discover likely boys and men to sing in the choir and serve at the altar . |
| 22 | It crossed her mind that he might well be keeping out of her way after his failure to secure some kind of punishment for Matthew 's cruel and unacceptable behaviour earlier in the day . |
| 23 | There was the Nationalist Party , a weak organization for which local priests had to provide some kind of legitimation . |
| 24 | On the stock market , BAe shares responded to the news — and reports that a consortium of international banks were about to provide some kind of support package to help to finance the massive Saudi Arabian defence order — with a 27p jump to 553p on brisk turnover . |
| 25 | The Times was highly critical of what it called ‘ these usurious companies ’ , but their creation was a genuine attempt by the government of the day to provide the less privileged members of society with a state money-lender which hopefully they would find more trustworthy than the neighbourhood pawnbroker ; and presumably each society 's secretary was able to provide some kind of money management advice to those who needed it . |
| 26 | It would obviously be possible to provide some kind of assistance here . |
| 27 | None the less , the sense of a need to provide some kind of discourse on literary quality is evident from the earliest issues of the journal . |
| 28 | You will almost certainly be asked to provide some kind of identification when you go to the hire shop — and do n't be surprised if you have your photograph taken ! |
| 29 | Or if an adult hospital patient with young children is known to be terminally ill , it should be possible to provide some kind of support for the spouse and the children in preparation for their loss , in order that they may work through their grief and come to terms with their new situation . |
| 30 | We are trying to find some kind of intellectual humanisation which will respect market economic principles , but we have a great distaste for the social Darwinism of Milton Friedman . |