Example sentences of "it [verb] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 2 | It needs some sort of collective arrangement on exchange rates . |
| 3 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 4 | It must be likely that in due course a parent company in the UK will be legally responsible for the debts of at least its wholly owned subsidiaries unless , perhaps , it files some sort of public disclaimer . |
| 5 | If it possesses some sort of strength — physical , chemical or armoured — it can face up boldly to its enemies and defy them . |
| 6 | It takes some sort of public document for people to get you out of a rut . ‘ |
| 7 | But it fastens some sort of cohabitation rule upon them . |
| 8 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |