Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [adj] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 2 | However , if it produced the right sort of pro-saving policies in the meantime , the hand-wringing would have served a useful purpose . |
| 3 | It made a strange sort of sense . |
| 4 | Yes we we envisaged that that bottle it it it has a certain sort of cache about it so we we we expected that that er a lot of sales for that eventually would go through the on trade and er obviously if it 's on trade then er the thing is automatically re-collectable and recyclable . |
| 5 | It seemed a warm sort of rain , not a harsh wind you know . |
| 6 | It seemed a funny sort of freedom to me when all you saw was poor people working like crazy and getting poorer and rich people not appearing to be doing much of anything except remaining quietly rich |
| 7 | It seemed an unlikely sort of place , and even more unlikely that Laura 's conservative parents should entrust their daughter to it . |
| 8 | I 'll always keep it because it shows the original sort of colours that Fair Isles were made in . |
| 9 | Sitting at a desk working on a book could hardly be more different from battling through a polar blizzard , but it presents a different sort of challenge . |
| 10 | Does it require a special sort of teacher , one with particular gifts , to do this satisfactorily ? |
| 11 | Does it require a special sort of teacher , a special type of teacher , to do this satisfactorily . |
| 12 | The only positive aspect is that since it attracts the seediest sort of tourist , it keeps them all in one place like a gigantic concrete fly-paper , and stops them wandering all over the unspoiled parts of the Highlands looking for go-cart tracks and timeshare chalets . |
| 13 | The report will also reject the argument that Japan needs special trade sanctions because it operates a different sort of capitalism . |
| 14 | It had the same sort of sense , largely meaningless , amorphous , diffuse , woolly , as applied to ‘ love ’ . |
| 15 | Although it harboured the worst sort of poverty , inequality and exploitation during the 1930s and 1940s , not least because its bright lights attracted millions from the surrounding countryside , it seethed with exuberant life and economic activity . |