Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was possible to see the same sort of divide as at the commercial end : every second house had been restored and repainted , with extensions sprouting in the gaps between them . |
| 2 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 3 | We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases . |
| 4 | ‘ If we bath in mineral water , ’ Samantha said , ‘ I 'd like to try the fizzy sort . ’ |
| 5 | The DAF workers are less likely to attract the same sort of gritty sympathy that the miners have done . |
| 6 | ‘ What people are concerned about is that , if they train certifieds or AATs , they do n't have to cope with the bureaucracy , they do n't have to be formal training offices and so they do n't have to be quite so concerned that they have to provide the right sort of additional courses for people to attend to back up their exams . |
| 7 | In order to provide the same sort of instant help and emotional support to staff as well as residents , it may be necessary to site a house supporting potentially disturbed people near to a hospital site with acute psychiatric admission wards , for although technology can link many homes to one central point , it can not provide the reassurance of instant personal help in times of emergency . |
| 8 | Erm again you know with the subject matter , provided you can find stuff that does tend to cover the same sort of s topics erm it does n't really |
| 9 | ‘ I wanted to get shadow to convey the haunting feeling of the place but despite getting there at 4.30am each morning and waiting all day for the sun to cast the right sort of light , I finally took the picture in moonlight three days later . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to get shadow to convey the haunting feeling of the place but despite getting there at 4.30am each morning and waiting all day for the sun to cast the right sort of light , I finally took the picture in moonlight three days later . ’ |
| 11 | Then we go to the taboo language and if you talk about when you go to the toilet , if you Everybody excuses themselves to leave and that 's both men and women and then somehow you have to say where you 're going , so the women are more likely to use the polite sort of euphemistic kinds of things like they 'd say toilet or loo , whereas the men are more likely to say bog . |
| 12 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 13 | ‘ Ron wants Ray to do the same sort of job , and there are definite similarities between the two , ’ he said . |
| 14 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 15 | erm and and ladies perhaps would tend to do the same sort of thing . |
| 16 | still in , in one way , in European and North American situations women do seem to have the same sort of job opportunities as men do what about somewhere like Africa what about the West Coast of Africa , we talked about Nigeria and West Africa quite a lot , what about women involved in there ? |
| 17 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 18 | Of course there is , there is the possibility , there is definitely going to be a reorganization , we sha n't have the same sort of input I do n't think , we sha n't be allowed to have the same sort of input in a totally undemocratic er , er , authority that 's going to be there where the , the governments will er , put er , most of the people on board , where the Home Secretary will decide on the Chairman , er , we do n't know what the government regulations are going to say about balances in terms for the new authority . |
| 19 | The founding , and the success , of the first five adult organisations for the deaf in Britain at Glasgow , Edinburgh , London ( St. Saviours ) , Manchester and Leeds prompted many deaf people in other parts of the country to seek the same sort of opportunities for themselves . |
| 20 | I did though on one occasion not long ago , pluck up the courage to attempt the required sort of reply . |
| 21 | I want to get the right sort of thing for you . |
| 22 | My Lords , I believe that it is extremely difficult to get the right sort of people erm to do these things . |
| 23 | We always seem to get the wrong sort of weather in |
| 24 | I did n't ever seem to get the same sort of satisfaction out of getting something to balance properly as I did out of seeing a patient recover , which was something you 'd helped them to do . |
| 25 | See I want to get the same sort of material though as what the other liners , I want to stick the two liners together to make all one great big pond you see right the way across the garden but the other pond might be about two foot deep , this one 's gon na go down |
| 26 | In spite of Paxford 's strong left-wing views , Minto idolized him and allowed him to occupy the same sort of position in her household as John Brown had occupied at the court of Queen Victoria . |
| 27 | If enzyme deficiencies are at the root of the problem in chemical-sensitive patients then one might expect them to show the same sort of reaction to small amounts of a chemical as normal people show to large amounts of that chemical . |
| 28 | Warm , loving and consistent discipline , in which reasons are given ( when the child can understand them ) , is thought to produce the rational sort of ‘ obedience ’ rather than the mindless and emotionally dependent following of orders . |
| 29 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |