Example sentences of "it [was/were] a sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | He produced this piece of information with a certain dim self-satisfaction , as if it were a sort of moral American Express card . |
| 2 | Again one could draw as it were a sort of a picture of erm one 's true self as a sort of largish lump , er much of which was the body and then within this smaller portion which is the soul , and within that a still smaller portion which is the mind , and then in all of us there is present to us the one , and we 're told that we ought to think about our body , that it is not our true self . |
| 3 | It was a sort of Catholic stab against death , I suppose . |
| 4 | It was a sort of burnt orange colour with a large hole cut at the back so that the lean old arse Nigel hated so much could be shown to its full advantage . |
| 5 | ‘ It was not an uninteresting character , ’ said Nicholson , ‘ but it was a sort of aside from the film itself because the part was n't in the original script . |
| 6 | Well , it was a sort of a boat journey , the van belonging to the shipping company that monopolizes the western seaboard . |
| 7 | In fact , it was a sort of petty tyranny . |
| 8 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 9 | Otherwise , it was a sort of limbo , and it was n't until we moved to a council house in Southall in the outer suburbs of London that the shades of the prison-house began to close . |
| 10 | It was a sort of joke . |
| 11 | I suppose it was a sort of novelty lesson for them . |
| 12 | It was a sort of revolutionary version of the Lions Club . |
| 13 | And er the it was a sort of for , I remember erm only a few years ago in Harlow we had a discussion group there was somebody there and I I think I 've still got the piece about that . |
| 14 | It was a sort of confessional . ’ |
| 15 | It was a sort of Christmas present . |
| 16 | But it was a sort of madness . |
| 17 | It was a sort of a , as you grew older mind you , it was i i i it could have been a little bit of a miserable sort of day . |
| 18 | We did that to all the staff , it was a sort of Cinderella story . |
| 19 | It was a sort of truce . |
| 20 | And then that perhaps it was a sort of reminder . |
| 21 | Last night I thought of one , it was a sort of butter-yellow ( farm-butter-yellow ) held rising to a white luminous sky and the sun just rising . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a sort of joke when I was at Oxford . |
| 23 | It was a sort of victory but not for long . |
| 24 | It was a sort of left hook . |
| 25 | Erm it was a mix yeah it was a sort of erm a half and half . |
| 26 | It was a sort of round-up of people 's reactions to the petrol crisis . |
| 27 | But he was angry and I think it was a sort of gesture . ’ |
| 28 | It was a sort of cabaret to the main business of the halt , which was the consumption of quite a lot of a bear which had incautiously come within bowshot of Hrun . |
| 29 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 30 | It was a sort of woollen soft material but very er thin . |