Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , it just yields in a soggy sort of way to the concentrations of stress at the edges of the joint and the load is shared by the glue in the middle . |
| 2 | This sort of awareness of the children 's requirements is a key role for the teacher in most activities as she tries to anticipate and provide for the next stage in each child 's development . |
| 3 | Then we were confined to our rooms as the Corporals organised some sort of excuse for the Sergeants and Sergeant-Major . |
| 4 | In language use ( as opposed to the drills of formal language practice ) we almost always have some sort of knowledge about the senders or receivers of the discourse . |
| 5 | In a number of cases , however , there may be a tendency to regard it , rather , as a sort of libation to the gods — a project or programme acquiring a certain added respectability by being evaluated , but with no deep-seated resolve on the part of its organisers to make any substantial organisational or financial investment in change ( after all to contemplate fundamental change to a primary programme once it is underway is an exceptionally costly business ) . |
| 6 | So , so , could I er , the sort of realism of the outputs yeah ? |
| 7 | The limited liability of the shareholders then appeared as a sort of concession to the creditors of the company rather than an arbitrary limitation on the normal liability imposed on partners in a business association . |
| 8 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 9 | There was no chance , Everett told them , of raising that sort of money with the Founders ' powers . |
| 10 | Yeah rural poor sort of shift into the towns . |
| 11 | I assume that you have already made some sort of shortlist from the names supplied ? |
| 12 | When you say crafts more easily accessible , I think a lot of people regard craft as a sort of extension to the Women 's Institute . |
| 13 | Rather , α needs to be determined by some sort of average of the values for a number of preceding trials as in the following equation : ( 3.2 ) |
| 14 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 15 | I think what 's very striking about the report which the students ' union have recently published and are circulating around the university , is the extent to which they have tended to define sexual harassment as being as much or at least as much a problem between students , a problem of behaviour between students and a problem of the sort of atmosphere in the colleges in terms of how that affects how peoples lives feel and and how they are how their behaviour what sort of behaviour is acceptable . |
| 16 | Any sort of improvement for the masses must involve a reordering of the social structure . |
| 17 | The second question makes the same sort of enquiry about the relations between categories . |
| 18 | It just seems to be a sort of club for the clergy . ’ |
| 19 | As a sort of consolation for the others , it was agreed that a second force of cavalry , somewhat larger , perhaps two thousand , should come along behind , as support , but to keep their distance for the sake of secrecy and only move if called for . |
| 20 | As for your acceptance of the Spanish government 's line that ETA is planning some sort of violence during the Olympics , the discovered documents do not prove anything . |
| 21 | He congratulated them , but at the same time insisted that , for the time being at least , they must move towards some sort of accommodation with the Poles . |
| 22 | There are enormous numbers of possibilities when you got over the thought that you must have some sort of fabric at the windows . |
| 23 | Through schemes , such as the Urban Programme and various training programmes , access to funds for local authorities has been shifted to areas in which they engage in some sort of partnership with the departments of central government . |
| 24 | But erm I remember er h having I was quite interested actually , er there was er a sort of loft in the stores . |
| 25 | She felt no fear but only a strange sort of companionship with the creatures who populated the forest night . |
| 26 | She felt no fear but only a strange sort of companionship with the creatures who populated the forest night . |
| 27 | They came to a sort of crossroads in the kitchens . |
| 28 | And on a major project like that it might be sensible to bill that sort of thing into the fees at the at the outset . |
| 29 | I am hopeful that it does not impinge upon the game 's great amateur status — I leave that sort of thing to the likes of Naas Botha and David Campese . |
| 30 | He says that they should leave that sort of thing to the police . |