Example sentences of "[be] [prep] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | of a well not exactly a disaster , but if ev if ever you 're in some sort of uncomfortable plight er stuck in a train or anything like that the way t to cope is to go off to sleep if you can |
| 2 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Beckenham , since I am in some sort indebted to you , I will , if you please , refrain from making you any answer , for I can not take it upon myself to do so without speaking to you in a manner which must sound both insolent and ungrateful ! ’ |
| 4 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 5 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 6 | It originates as a MEWING sound in tiny kittens , letting their mother know that they need some kind of help or that they are in some sort of trouble . |
| 7 | We have to look at the range of ideals which are somehow clustered together to guide us , arrayed as they are in some sort of a rough priority system , and take out of its slot the unquestioned ideal ‘ be a man ’ . |
| 8 | That sort of decision should be under some sort of democratic decision making ability . |
| 9 | You appear to be in some sort of surreal shopping mall , with the world 's TV laid out for purchase : you almost feel like you should have a shopping trolley , to wheel up and down the aisles . |
| 10 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 11 | ‘ We appear to be in some sort of glass box , ’ said the Thing . |
| 12 | Even if we are assured that the creatures in question are not in any pain , some people will prolong the argument either by insisting that they must be in some sort of distress , or by claiming that even if they are not overtly suffering , what is happening to them is cruel and unwarranted exploitation . |
| 13 | Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’ |
| 14 | Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’ |
| 15 | They must be on some sort of a one of the meters or somebody 's meter or somewhere . |
| 16 | Besides , everyone who matters has already been to some sort of bash at the Natural History Museum ; this is new . |
| 17 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 18 | It was as though she were in some sort of a trance , a pallid undertone to the sun-dark skin , the nostrils of that straight nose slightly flared ; even the jaw seemed to have lost some of its determined thrust . |
| 19 | The only way around this is through some sort of arrangement with the TNCs . |
| 20 | Yeah it 's like some sort of erm okay . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's like some sort of c … code , ’ said Richard , 39 — , ’ |
| 22 | He thinks he 's on some sort of blacklist because he was in the International Brigade . ’ |
| 23 | This as far as we know which is reproduced from the original , was for some sort of a fender . |
| 24 | The navigator claims it was like some sort of gateway through time but his captain died and he 's obviously space-happy . |
| 25 | My impression is that just before his death Paul Gray was under some sort of pressure . |
| 26 | It was as if she was under some sort of hypnotic spell . |
| 27 | At one time it was quite obvious that his main sponsor , Essex Petroleum , run by the flamboyant American ex-decorator and former Brussels bus-boy , David Thieme , was in some sort of dire trouble and that this trouble was bound to affect Team Lotus as it did ; Chapman knew I was looking into the complex affairs of Thieme and Thieme 's longstanding relations with Lotus . |
| 28 | She liked to think later that the dream was in some sort prophetic . |
| 29 | Perhaps he was in some sort of store-room rather than the garage . |
| 30 | Well I ca n't just remember , I can remember , and the other , the other one was in some sort of trade too was n't number three too ? |