Example sentences of "be [verb] that [adj] sort [prep] " in BNC.

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1 is going to happen , it 's a question of whether we g go for three hours ' training we I think we 're agreeing that some sort of preliminary training is going to come forward but not necessary three hours .
2 They are told that this sort of question or embellishment is inappropriate .
3 It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through .
4 Again it needs to be remembered that this sort of coding is designed to be read by a machine , not a human .
5 Thus every time a nominated board is established to perform some administrative function , it is felt that some sort of democratic check is necessary and as elections can not be run for each ad hoc board , another nominated body is created called an ‘ advisory council ’ , the idea being that this acts in lieu of democratic control .
6 It was expected that some sort of legal action would follow .
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