Example sentences of "the sort [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , so , could I er , the sort of realism of the outputs yeah ? |
| 2 | He was the sort of fielder who never runs but is always there when the ball lands . |
| 3 | If Boz believes he knows who did it he wo n't wait to find the sort of proof that a judge would need . |
| 4 | It was the sort of pride which comes before a fall — and it was a fall which Gorbachev became increasingly willing to envisage . |
| 5 | ‘ Fem Sap has never recognized the sort of hierarchy which says that only published authors , or professors of literature , have something worth saying . |
| 6 | And what about er your life , you started really on the sort of bicycle and repair side of life |
| 7 | And what 's the sort of plus or the dangers on that ? |
| 8 | It was the sort of grin that is normally accompanied by small riverside birds wandering in and out , picking scraps out of the teeth . |
| 9 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said McInnes with the sort of grin Colonel Sanders gave when he saw a ‘ Free Range Eggs ’ sign . |
| 10 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 11 | The search would have to be illegal and secret — the sort of operation she knew Urquhart 's organisation carried out regularly under the generous blanket of ‘ national security ’ . |
| 12 | At the same time , speak to your GP and ask about the sort of operation you had and the possibilities of reversal . |
| 13 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |
| 14 | Not for the sort , not for the sort of operation you 're looking at no . |
| 15 | The firm had suspended its head of research Terry Smith , issued injunctions against him and his publishers , and gained , for what is essentially an analysis of the ways in which companies improve their reported profits , the sort of press coverage more usually associated with revelations about Princess Di . |
| 16 | It was like something out of a film set — and not the sort of film that was recommended for family viewing . |
| 17 | It 's the sort of film you can sit and watch a few times . |
| 18 | Erm and a little bay there for er goods traffic to go into the sort of station . |
| 19 | And a barrow , a very common sight , and this this type of er of awning , erm very very common , er the barge-boarding er and the er and and the again the roof and the er chimneys and very interesting sort of a In the garden erm of the sort of station master 's house , is that . |
| 20 | After all there are n't that many places that can do the sort of development work needed . |
| 21 | It ties in with exactly the sort of development which you 're doing in rural settings for learning disability and it attracts grant because of its er , its ability to show an element that is training people towards future employment . |
| 22 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 23 | Just one other other point , there is the issue of sustainable development Professor Lock referred to erm alright we 'll bring in the railway line er as as part of your criteria , but I am concerned at the the general dispersal that is er envisaged in the sort of development er that he suggested . |
| 24 | I just wanted to come back on er David Potter 's assertion that we were looking for a a higher allocation under I five and I I thought I 'd specifically covered that point by saying that that was n't what we were looking for because that would n't address the sort of development we 're talking about here . |
| 25 | Erm those sites are subject to other lo locational restrictions and other environmental restrictions and would n't in our view be appropriate for the sort of development that he 's looking for erm a location in in our context anyway generally speaking along the A one corridor . |
| 26 | The sort of motivation which encourages people into advertising ‘ because it 's creative ’ or personnel ‘ because it 's to do with people ’ . |
| 27 | The system shown in Figure 7 is an illustration of the sort of system that needs to be designed to regulate ecologically urban-industrial systems . |
| 28 | So this may be the sort of case we are looking for , a case in which the effect of the duty can be separated from the effect of other aspects of authoritative action . |
| 29 | ’ I would respectfully accept that the order was justified under paragraph ( a ) but would regard the case as a classic example of the sort of case for which paragraph ( b ) was designed . |
| 30 | Now he thought he knew the sort of case he had to deal with , and what he had read had pointed which way to look for the killer . |