Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have looked at your planet Uulaa , and I know what sorts of fun you would seek there . |
| 2 | the state of the premium trust funds , these are the sorts of consideration one would need to take into account , er a no doubt they would , they 'd need to be argued fully at a , at a later stage , but the only question here is , if your Lordship refers and there 's going to be some delay , well , erm , I was trying to think of an analogous case er and the case which went to the European court at the beginning of last year had consequences which were potentially far more profound than this case is , it was the Case concerned the application of equal pay principles to pensions |
| 3 | There are several sorts of truth I could tell about this decade of work . |
| 4 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 5 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
| 6 | Peter Robinson , a Democratic Unionist MP , said people were sceptical of ‘ the idea of rogue cops going around to take out IRA terrorists — it 's the sort of stuff you might expect to see on television with Clint Eastwood ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ If I had teeth and tentacles all over the place that 's just the sort of message I 'd send . |
| 8 | So the only sort of foundationalist who could retain F 1 without F 2 would be one who accepted F 1 for other reasons than those provided by the regress argument . |
| 9 | If you want to fit lots of peripherals to your server then this is the sort of casing you 'll want — it has no less than four free 5.25-inch drive bays plus a pair of 3.5-inch bays . |
| 10 | All the groups in the survey had a fixed idea about the sort of worker they would meet at the CAB : female , over 50 , middle or upper class and authoritarian . |
| 11 | Not the sort of mistake you would expect from a mammal or a man . |
| 12 | In the meanwhile , careers officers suggest that graduates lower their expectations of the sort of work they will get when they leave university . |
| 13 | The sort of day everyone should have their wedding on . |
| 14 | North out half Derek Wilson had the sort of day he will want to forget . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , she might have been angry with him , ’ Adele chattered on , ‘ but he 's not the sort of man one can ignore , is he ? |
| 16 | He does n't look like the sort of man one can get the better of very often . ’ |
| 17 | He was the sort of man nobody would look at twice . |
| 18 | I thought you might have become the sort of man who would do something like that . ’ |
| 19 | Most of all , Mahoney did n't look like the sort of man who would work in an art gallery . |
| 20 | He was the sort of man who would come to the worst possible conclusion . |
| 21 | You know , there 's a certain sort of man who would come to a joint like this in order to fuck the women in it . |
| 22 | Francis : the judge considered why Findlay had signed the interview notes and concluded that the toothache was exaggerated and that though tired he was not the sort of man who would have signed incriminating notes out of consideration for his solicitor . |
| 23 | He was the sort of man who 'd turn up only when he said he would n't . |
| 24 | The sort of man who could have his pick of women , so why had n't he picked any ? |
| 25 | Ackland seems the sort of man who could hammer a nail in with his clenched teeth so he never begins to look like a tentative nonentity . |
| 26 | Looking down into his eyes , Harry Pascoe knew instinctively that there was in Tristram the makings of the sort of man he would have liked to have been himself : a man of honour , a man untroubled by jealousy or a guilty conscience . |
| 27 | Because he 's not the sort of man you can bully … ’ |
| 28 | Giles Hawick was not the sort of man you could flatten easily , and if you managed it , he would not pop up , bright , smiling and bearing no grudge , to face you the next ti me . |
| 29 | Well , he was n't exactly the sort of man you could overlook , was he ? |
| 30 | One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk . |