Example sentences of "be [to-vb] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he feels that the most difficult thing in a man 's life is to find some sort of balance between longing for company and longing for isolation . |
| 2 | The big problem with this latter group is to find some sort of unifying factor that will make sense or give a theme to a miscellany of oddments that are less than distinguished . |
| 3 | And er , one way to , to get people to stay on the land is to introduce some sort of , what we might call market disciplines , if that was n't such a dirty word , er , into the government , the government sector where there are clear inefficiencies . |
| 4 | All that the King could do was to provide some sort of legal foundation of government for Englishmen going to unsettled and thinly populated areas , which he did by linking the legitimacy of their governments to the legitimacy of his government . |
| 5 | The final task was to construct some sort of cover to prevent the fish from jumping out . |