Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also worked on twelve fences , trying very hard to find some sort of pattern . |
| 2 | Well , it 's good to have some sort of an explanation I can give everyone . |
| 3 | In our discussion so far , we have been concerned to impose some sort of analytic structure on the lumpen mass of context . |
| 4 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 5 | This may be able to identify some sort of ‘ fit ’ between the social and economic characteristics of a city and its public policy , but this in no sense explains that policy . |
| 6 | Mildred lapsed into silence and fixed her eyes on Maud in the hope that she might be able to send some sort of message through the air — like a radio wave — to her friend . |
| 7 | And after a number of false dawns , it seems the private insurance industry will shortly be able to offer some sort of long term care insurance product — if it succeeds conventional health and social services could be put out to tender , and perhaps turned into a commercial operation . |
| 8 | Although the system had been modified in many villages so that the strips fell together instead of being widely separated , everybody , including squatters , had access to the common land and was able to earn some sort of a living from it , and this could be supplemented seasonally by labouring or harvesting for a bigger landowner . |
| 9 | Mozart had every reason to suspect that he would be able to gain some sort of appointment there . |
| 10 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 11 | He tapped his empty glass , then shrugged his shoulders as if too indifferent to meet some sort of challenge and almost defiantly poured himself another large measure . |
| 12 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 13 | But although Tit for Tat is strictly speaking not a true ESS , it is probably fair to treat some sort of mixture of basically nice but retaliatory ‘ Tit for Tat-like ’ strategies as roughly equivalent to an ESS in practice . |
| 14 | But one of the problems with attacking Trust , I mean it may be possible to envisage some sort of modified Trust with some local input at some stage without the contracting apparatus . |
| 15 | Wiring up the fielder 's l.e.d.s is a bit fiddly because these have to be hard wired and it is necessary to provide some sort of anchorage at each of the indicator positions . |
| 16 | If you have to be hospitalized then , again , it will be necessary to organise some sort of support . |
| 17 | It is therefore necessary to use some sort of classification to sort out the various ways in which we might approach the problems of observation . |
| 18 | But it 'd be nice to have some sort of pictorial representation of It 'd just be easier to see which areas we 've got to cover . |
| 19 | Therefore , it is necessary to have some sort of measure to gauge the quality of the estimate . |
| 20 | Evidently , it is necessary to compile some sort of ’ collocation dictionary ’ by automatic means . |
| 21 | And since UVA rays are the culprits , and these can penetrate even on dull , cloudy days , it 's wise to wear some sort of sunscreening agent all year round . |
| 22 | She needed him to be ready to make some sort of commitment to her . |