Example sentences of "[adj] sort [prep] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you end up with like all these books and they 've got a different , different sort of er perspective on it and they 've got |
| 2 | Should have thought about it and got a different sort of erm temperature thing in instead of two kormas . |
| 3 | The ability to win over an informant who is undecided whether or not to grant the interview is important , as is the ability to put people at their ease and reassure them that the interview is not going to be some sort of viva voce examination . |
| 4 | He liked to hint that his relationship with Gina was some sort of grande passion and that she was the love of his life . |
| 5 | It was towards the end of the main course , some sort of en croûte affair which Karen must have bought oven-ready at Marks and Spencer 's , that the muscles in the arch of my right foot suddenly seized up . |
| 6 | Marriage , I assume , carries with it some sort of carte blanche for endless promiscuity — and a dispensation from the Pope . |
| 7 | There was time when they had to bribe er , give some sort of er incentive to the foreman to give them a good time , then it was the shop stewards who would give the workers to the management who will do the o overtime . |
| 8 | Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it . |
| 9 | There were some sort , some sort of er some like an insurance , now maybe only pay tuppence a tuppence |
| 10 | Erm if you were interested in probation then maybe you could get work in a probation hostel er you know as , as some sort of er assistant . |
| 11 | The reason why this occurred er erm , the reason why this occurred was not due to some sort of er , due to emotional problems that he suffered within these repressed relations with his son . |
| 12 | There 's some sort of er unity and multiplicity at the level intellect , erm |
| 13 | Er the three options were joint authorities er this would mean er unitary authorities within an area joining together and forming some sort of er joint committee arrangements and joint staffing arrangements to prepare a plan over a wider area . |
| 14 | It ca n't be just figures it has to be some sort of er summation does n't it as well or not ? |
| 15 | Oh yeah , need some sort of er |
| 16 | I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er |
| 17 | Erm , I think it 's probably inevitable but most of the Republics will become independent , but I think the idea of them becoming independent in their present borders is very worrying indeed cos that , most of the borders are grossly irrational and becoming independent with those borders ethnic conflicts built into it , erm , and I think unless there 's some sort of er negotiations about what border these countries will have before they become inde independent , we could see quite a lot of bloodshed . |
| 18 | We used to do erm we used to have erm a girl at school , when I was at school in east east London Stepney erm who used to bring mock banana sandwiches and that was made with mashed , parsnip and erm some sort of erm banana essence . |
| 19 | Yeah it 's like some sort of erm okay . |
| 20 | Which er gives some sort of erm er comfort that in fact the international standards are being maintained . |
| 21 | Er there has been cases where er there has been er some sort of erm affairs between men and women but the majority and psychological er think way of thinking that er the Asian woman always think of their husbands only , nothing else . |
| 22 | all go together then they 'll be some sort of erm |
| 23 | But erm what we would like is for any of you who are actually here at that time to attend that mass and to be involved in some way , to do some sort of erm service . |
| 24 | Erm he decided to stage a fire in which it would make it appear as though er this was a result of some sort of erm armed confrontation between law enforcement and his group . |
| 25 | yes tiny little place , and it was , it was n't totally satisfactory initially in that they erm , they left it with some sort of erm cock up , I could n't wind it up , there was something wrong with the crown click , or something of the sort , when I got it back , so I had to take it back again , but otherwise they seemed to be people who are well aware of watches in the best sense and eh , he said this is a an excellent movement and eh far better than the ones I normally see . |
| 26 | Would you like Lithuania to be part of some sort of erm , Soviet Federation , voluntarily I mean just some loose trading or defence partnership ? |
| 27 | Was there some sort of erm financial institution created like a national bank or anything like that ? |
| 28 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 29 | Some are further ahead than others , but what will probably be expected of most authorities is some sort of erm perhaps a handbook or certainly some advice to parents about the implications of the new Act . |
| 30 | Well that is a very difficult one for anybody who erm has to try and sort out the ideological , tribal , personal rivalries in Uganda and to answer the question of whether these are going to get in the way of some sort of erm coherent government policy and political stability . |