Example sentences of "[v-ing] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 200 people reported seeing some kind of craft landing near the base in 1980 . |
| 2 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |
| 3 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had gone along once to pay a casual visit and found one of Nenna 's youngsters , the little one , cooking some kind of mess for him in Dreadnought 's galley . |
| 9 | There are various ways of mapping a plane on to a sphere ( or vice versa ) but there is no way of doing this without producing some kind of distortion or another ; Mercator 's projection of the globe on to a flat map , leads to a diminutive Africa and an exaggerated Greenland . |
| 10 | ‘ I just wish the Cabinet would clear its lines and start producing some kind of simple understandable message , ’ he said . |
| 11 | But he will still be organising 13,000 volunteers into bringing some kind of Christmas to 125,000 needy , lonely or down-and-out people . |
| 12 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 13 | He 's obsessed about his work — obsessed with building some kind of memorial to your father . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you serving me food , or am I interrupting some kind of talent contest ? ’ |
| 15 | These are : 1 detailed specification of assessment tasks ; 2 careful specification of learning objectives , derived from the subject matter and teaching strategies which involve choices about the subject matter to be taught and assessed ; 3 a sequence of tasks generally representing some kind of progression . |
| 16 | ‘ Getting away with it ’ , of course , means something only if the bats are adopting some kind of Tit for Tat strategy . |
| 17 | Although this difficulty could be resolved by adopting some kind of stratified sampling procedure ( Trudgill , for example , sampled four electoral wards of which the social characteristics were known ) , a more general question emerges of whether it is always reasonable to take the population of an urban area as a sampling universe , when in fact a high proportion of the higher-status people who work in that city actually reside in neighbouring towns . |
| 18 | With the body and neck made of maple , a wide strap is almost essential , as the Artist weighs a ton , and lasting out a long gig without collapsing or gaining some kind of spinal disorder is something of an achievement . |
| 19 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 20 | Still , he had a sense of movement ; as though in the quietness they were seeking some kind of glory . |
| 21 | The High Authority returned to the attack in 1966 , seeking some kind of common agreement on levels of production . |
| 22 | Instinct told him he was passing some kind of test . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , as well as searching for a director to replace its current chief , Bob Scheifler , the X Consortium is also examining ways of distancing itself from its home at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developing some kind of marketing focus without falling foul of its not-for-profit status . |
| 24 | French referee Daniel Salles complained in an interview after the tournament that the top refereeing assignments in Catania had been handed over to the Home Unions referees , implying some kind of conspiracy — all of which is an absolute nonsense . |
| 25 | At the end of last year , the FDA was persuaded that the Utah Medical Center had evolved a plastic and aluminium ‘ heart ’ ( known as the Jarvik 7 , after its designer , Dr Robert Jarvik ) which stood a chance of sustaining some kind of life , and permission was given for a series of seven experiments , employing the new toy , after which the instrument 's worth was to be reviewed . |
| 26 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 27 | Dommer , chanting some kind of battle hymn , fired . |
| 28 | It is against this background of a highly anomalous solvent possessing some kind of possible patterning effect that we must consider the homoeopathic potencies . |
| 29 | In a consultative approach , one knowledge source , typically encoding some kind of focusing information , is given a special role . |
| 30 | I must have moaned : she looked at me coldly as if suspecting some kind of trickery , and then her face altered and she came across the room to take my arm and help me back to bed . |