Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the diplomacy which really mattered had always been that of sovereign states ; this final withering away of the claims of other entities to conduct some sort of foreign relations of their own was merely a kind of necessary tidying-up , the clearing of an undergrowth of quasi-diplomacy . |
| 2 | But getting the institutions to support some sort of restructuring has become difficult if not impossible . |
| 3 | Most teachers and headteachers welcome some sort of value added comparison i.e. the value added to a pupil 's educational achievements after entering the school . |
| 4 | What we need to arrange is that control subjects perform some sort of task in the first phase — not one , of course , that requires them to attach different labels to the critical stimuli , but one that guarantees that attention to these stimuli is maintained . |
| 5 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , we can conclude that many of the megalithic monuments had some sort of astronomical import ( and this includes some aspects of the Egyptian Pyramids ) ; as to their religious meaning we can only guess . |
| 7 | ( In fact , even in slavery , it was quite common for slaves to have white fathers or grandfathers ; certainly nowadays , most blacks have some sort of white ancestry . ) |
| 8 | Hepworth and Stoll failed in their attempt to set up a permanent sales operation in America ; Samuelson secured a short-lived distribution arrangement with First National Exhibitors ' Circuit , and various other films secured some sort of release . |
| 9 | Until recently I should have rejected the premise that my earliest years represented some sort of attack upon my individuality and insisted that , on the contrary , I was surrounded with kindness and loving care — as indeed I was . |
| 10 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 11 | Great weakness and the desire to lie down is a strong feature as are haemorrhagic complaints ; problems involving some sort of bleeding . |
| 12 | I wondered if we could look at particularly customer relations producing some sort of voucher worth fifty pound or hundred pound or twenty five pound and er we have a stock of those printed up you know |
| 13 | To her amazement more than 100 children — five per cent — responded by citing incidents in which teachers made some sort of sexual advance to them . |
| 14 | The third type is that of major practical decisions requiring some sort of new institution or the adoption of specific behaviour of a sort hitherto either forbidden or , at least , not encouraged . |
| 15 | Enraged at seeing their cause thus mugged , Democratic leaders in Congress were willing to perform political somersaults to get some sort of civil-rights legislation through . |
| 16 | Then we were confined to our rooms as the Corporals organised some sort of excuse for the Sergeants and Sergeant-Major . |
| 17 | Whereas Maurice was always reluctant to involve himself in practical agitation and action , Ludlow was a concrete thinker who was never satisfied until ideals received some sort of institutional expression . |
| 18 | You see , these pipes pump some sort of stuff which make those bits up there move , and those pistons are forced out , which makes the arm thing over there — ’ said Grimma , impatiently . |
| 19 | Between the ages of 65 and 69 , 37 per cent of lone women and 62 per cent of lone men had some sort of occupational pension . |
| 20 | About eight in ten pensioners have some sort of second income to top up their state pension . |
| 21 | All authorities had some sort of proposal on paper by that year , derived in part from the regional advisory reports of earlier years . |
| 22 | In these circumstances , the oddest schemes found some sort of currency . |
| 23 | All of these had to be mixed with a suitable quota of pretty and elegant women to form some sort of homogeneous gathering , so that the guests would , after a fashion , entertain themselves as well as be entertained . |
| 24 | Though most women take some sort of weird maternal joy in this , being a single parent or the main money-earner in the family can lead to financial problems when she has to stop work . |
| 25 | Instead of assuming that their development progresses along a smooth and unproblematic path it is assumed that there have to be mechanisms and policies to overcome constantly recurring disequilibria and attempts to gain some sort of balance ( for example , between agriculture and industry ; between the amounts available for consumption and for investment in new capital ; between money and financial capital on one hand and production on the other ; and , especially , between capital and labour ) . |
| 26 | It is an honest account and attempts to make some sort of enquiry into why climbing in , for example , the Eden Valley , is n't nearly enough . |
| 27 | Most analysts reckon some sort of reflex reaction is inevitable , although fund managers are expected to remain on the sidelines , perhaps even until the new government 's Budget is unveiled in two or three weeks time . |
| 28 | But what is almost certain is that around 60% of sufferers have some sort of genetic susceptibility to it , and three times as many women as men suffer from this distressing condition . |