Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began in the early fifties when American health products company Johnson & Johnson , best known for its baby powder , wanted to develop a new type of surgical suture based on collagen the same sort of stuff that ageing film stars injected to prevent wrinkles . |
| 2 | This study included EEG/EOG recordings during sleep , and it is interesting to compare the sort of sleep that these subjects were getting after months of sleep reduction with subjects who have reduced sleep for briefer periods of time . |
| 3 | He had thought for a moment that Hoomey was going to ask him back , but he knew he was n't the sort of friend that nice mothers were all that pleased to see . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean , was she the sort of girl that other girls could be friends with ? |
| 5 | Rod-bending bites , although more common when barbel fishing than any other kind , are not the only sort of bite that these fish give . |
| 6 | Certainly , this is not the sort of behaviour that modern judges have in mind when they refer to young thugs as behaving ‘ like animals ’ . |
| 7 | It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour . |
| 8 | This is the same sort of tripe that Conservative Members came out with when they were defending the poll tax ; the poll tax was indefensible , and the council tax is going the same way . |
| 9 | It is also , however , just the sort of career that most physics students would n't dream of entering , being part of a predominantly female profession , low-paid and low-status . |
| 10 | She was the sort of woman that most men would look at at least twice and , unless totally senile , would find extremely desirable . |
| 11 | The success of the new Continental R , and before that the Bentley Turbo , shows that if it can make the sort of car that new customers approve of , it should still be able to find 3,000 buyers a year around the world . |
| 12 | It is , though , a satisfying sort of car that most motorists could happily live with . |
| 13 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |