Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was really high pressure sort of stuff followed by this terrible waiting period , because no sooner did the record come out , and the space shot take off , the BBC banned every record that had anything to do with the moon . |
| 2 | This is not easy to do since most historians persist in speaking of ‘ The National Government ’ as if the same sort of government ruled from 1931 to 1940 . |
| 3 | Newbridge Networks Corp is at the forefront of Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology according to analysts contacted by Reuters : ‘ No-one else is shipping true ATM switches and they 've already shipped 60 switches , ’ Terry Murphy , a senior analyst at Smith Barney Harris Upham & Co said , adding that because no-one will need the sort of capacity offered by Asynchronous Transfer Mode transmission systems until later in the decade , Newbridge has bought itself a virtual insurance policy by leading in deployment . |
| 4 | I was seated on a hard sort of sofa covered with worn black velvet , and tea ( as in More Women than Men ) went ‘ through all its stages ’ . |
| 5 | Avoid the sort of ending used in this essay on " Genres of the Old English Poetry " : And in this way we have come to the end of our characterisation of the main genres of the oldest vernacular poetry in Western Europe ; poetry which achieved so great variety over the 8th , 9th , and 10th centuries . |
| 6 | Taczek told me he could think of nothing from those times that would have made Mills any sort of target for a KGB assassin — or any other sort of assassin come to that . ’ |
| 7 | Since we do understand what the sceptic is saying , we must have the sort of knowledge required for that understanding . |
| 8 | This will be termed contextual selection ( of senses ) ; in the nature of things , this sort of variation proceeds in discrete jumps rather than continuously . |
| 9 | ‘ Two Priests up the Jungle ’ ( which is what Old Fish Sparks sings from time to time to the tune of Red Sails in the Sunset ) — sure , but it 's about the sort of conflict running through human life in every time and every civilization . |
| 10 | IT really was not the sort of behaviour expected at one of England 's oldest golf clubs . |
| 11 | In practice , few juries have ever supposed that ordinary people turn away so consistently from the sort of pornography brought before British courts in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 12 | It does occur to Fukuyama that religion might have some sort of unease to express with all this , but he appears to conceive of religion under only two modes . |
| 13 | One can not imagine , for example , a geophysicist ignoring the results of his seismic surveys because they got in the way of his theories , and yet Weiss says that this sort of possibility exists in bad or unscrupulous social science research . |
| 14 | ‘ It ought to be called ‘ The Barber of Fawlty Towers ’ since Peter Knapp 's hilarious version of Rossini 's classic deserves the same sort of popularity enjoyed by that series ’ The Guardian Sun in English by Travelling Opera Directed by Peter Knapp |
| 15 | Nadine Meisner visits a Royal Ballet project that is encouraging a different sort of child to put on pointed shoes |
| 16 | Yet this was the sort of argument used by various archaeologists , notably Glyn Daniel , who refused to accept the findings of Thom , Hawkins and a growing number of others . |
| 17 | It is almost impossible to forge any sort of career associated with public life or public men where you do not yourself become the object of hostility in some quarter . |
| 18 | A similar comment also applies to the other sort of humour found in some basically unhumorous crime fiction ; the wisecracks or one-liners in many private-eye stories and some other books . |
| 19 | The level of detail can be refined until this sort of analysis merges into one of the other main ways of grouping coins ( see below ) . |
| 20 | Not only is fundamentalism growing fast outside the Church of England — attendance at the independent churches that practise this sort of Christianity increased from 44,000 in 1979 to 108,000 in 1989 — but there is also a boom inside the Church of England itself , at places like Holy Trinity . |
| 21 | The look that I 'm trying to get is a sort of pinky-mauvey look on this lovely , sort of wine coloured cloth . |
| 22 | Now these were perfectly fine eating establishments that served wholesome food on crisp white table cloths , but were not the usual sort of house favoured by top stars . |
| 23 | That sort of trauma leads to long-term suffering . |
| 24 | No doubt the sort of collaboration recorded in this example could be found in any classroom , whether the teacher intended it or not . |
| 25 | It was the sort of dilemma faced by any ruler of a composite state : different regna posed simultaneous conflicting demands . |
| 26 | Such a reorientation requires , first , political will , and , second , institutional restructuring ( by , for example , universities and polytechnics in the higher education sector ) to facilitate the sort of programming discussed in this chapter ( and similar developments in analogous fields ) . |
| 27 | The sort of oddness exhibited by 28 may be termed expressive paradox , since the expressive meaning carried by but is inappropriately deployed . |
| 28 | The same sort of thing occurred in 1969 . |
| 29 | Yes , Chairman , can I say that erm , when the b the budget 's in the process of formulation and we 're discussing the question of balances and reserves and how they should be marked for the immediate future , particularly in regard to the way that er , reorganization may take place at police authorities in the very near future , and also those of us who are on this , on , on other committees who 've had experience in , and the same sort of thing happening in further education for instance , where immediately the assets , before even the regulations were put on the table , the assets of all these things were , all these er , erm , coll the further education colleges were frozen so we could n't do anything with them at all as an Authority , and er , actually many of them were taken from us without er , without any question at all . |
| 30 | Those who liked that sort of thing spoke of organic growth , those who did not murmured ‘ shambles ’ . |