Example sentences of "be [adv] the sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham said : ‘ I am not the sort of person who can just sit around reading . |
| 2 | It seems to me that I am exactly the sort of person that you need , that you should cultivate me , prime me , pay me , even . |
| 3 | It has had , since its inception , an adversarial relationship with governments and its activists are not the sort of people with whom Conservative governments easily make friends , particularly when they block the outflow pipe of nuclear processing plants such as the one at Sellafield in Cumbria . |
| 4 | The rational man may contemplate them and give more weight to the former , and more still perhaps to ‘ Art should be a part of ordinary life ’ , but these are not the sort of principles which he will profess to have interrelated in a deductive system . |
| 5 | They are not the sort you 'd expect to quarrel , at least not violently . |
| 6 | I felt quite dirty having to tell all these intimate details to total strangers and most of all my mother , who I had to live with and would always know everything , as they are not the sort of things you discuss with your parents . |
| 7 | A flat-calm water , clear sky and a bright quarter moon are not the sort of conditions we associate with good catches . |
| 8 | er , we have in the East end of the village , including the pub , the farm , and various other properties , a certain type of properties that elevation , a certain sympathetic er amenity , and these buildings , I I heard the word mentioned earlier , I live in the country , I could live in the town , it does n't matter where I live , but these are not the sort of properties , in my opinion , that should be put on this particular site , er and they 're they 're totally , all our own elevations and plans of height , and they are totally and utterly out of proportion and out of scale with the present day entrance to the village , and whilst we 're not talking totally and utterly about looks , if you come down into the village they are going to be totally over powering , particularly in the , in the actual , in this situation of no hedges and that kind of thing , |
| 9 | However I do not propose that we too quickly problematize the concept out of existence , since some of the questions it begs , even in its inadequate form , are just the sort which need to be asked . |
| 10 | These are just the sort of qualities that Orcs really admire ! |
| 11 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 12 | The Feeleys are just the sort of family William Beveridge was trying to proivide for when , exactly fifty years ago , he presented the Governemnt with a report that laid the foundations of the welfare state . |
| 13 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 14 | These are exactly the sort of voters Labour needs in the South , where the Conservatives retain a 14-point mid-term lead . |
| 15 | Like the Jews , they are exactly the sort of quick-decision , risk-accepting businessmen who are needed when a region is changing from communism to capitalism . |
| 16 | Oh , yes , you 're just the sort of bloke we 're looking for for the guards . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're just the sort of things your friends over there would like . |
| 18 | They 're almost always surrounded by existing long term industry , they 're not the sorts of places we want Leeds residents to have to live in the future . |
| 19 | They 're very supportive , but they 're not the sorts of theatre where you want to open . ’ |
| 20 | But when people like Norman Jay and Omar said they were into the track , it sort of backed up in my own mind that it was a safe tune — they 're not the sort of people who give you compliments just to make you smile . ’ |
| 21 | The software world is gradually being taken over by little animals , and they 're not the sort of cuddly , fluffy ones we 're used to seeing . |
| 22 | You 're not the sort of girl to … dammit ! you 're not a slut like Bella , who 'll sleep with anyone for a cheap thrill . |
| 23 | You 're not the sort of man who likes to get into trouble , are you ? ’ |
| 24 | Well you see in an ideal situation of the six people I 've got on the second list there 's better quality people there but they 've got absolutely zero experience but we 're not the sort of company who can take these people on and train them really |
| 25 | disgusting but then they 're not the sort of people you can talk to are they ? |
| 26 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 27 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 28 | ‘ These are more the sorts of descriptions that people tend to use about the experience of working for me . ’ |
| 29 | On the principles relating to constructive knowledge in the ticket cases , the documents upon which standard terms and conditions are usually printed ( quotations , order forms and acknowledgments ) are clearly the sort of document where one would expect to find terms and conditions , and which a reasonable man would read carefully . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course I was terrified when it happened , ’ she recalls , ‘ but I 'm not the sort to be beaten . |