Example sentences of "this is [art] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hosted by Michael Parkinson , this is a sort of This is Your Life . |
| 2 | ‘ This is a sort of halfway house where people can dip their toe in the water . |
| 3 | This is a sort of ‘ semi-film ’ , made by shooting the pictures of a specially drawn storyboard with a rostrum camera , which makes it possible to produce an almost moving picture with varying lengths of focus , to which can be added a recorded soundtrack . |
| 4 | By the way interestingly enough this is a sort of acid plus base type reaction , where you 've got calcium oxide which is a basic oxide , silicon dioxide which is an acidic oxide , and the salt that it makes is calcium silicate . |
| 5 | This is a sort of default mechanism which tells the reader that the participant last mentioned or , alternatively , the one in focus or the one that can be inferred on grounds of logic or context , is the subject of the following clause(s) unless otherwise indicated ( see discussion of theme and Chinese-style topic in Chapter 5 , section 5.1.1.4 ) . |
| 6 | This is a sort of notional rent payment , though it is not called that because social security does not want to be seen as having returned to paying rents . |
| 7 | this is a sort of the sample that that we were left with . |
| 8 | This is a sort of real time kaleidoscope . |
| 9 | But er this is a sort of a you know , jigsaw puzzle , chocolate box that type of thing . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , this is a sort of parting party . |
| 11 | Erm , and that , this is a sort of a difference between |
| 12 | Good so that 's the first thing you 've got to do , get these into the same sort of units this is a sort of variation where we had grams and kilograms and things . |
| 13 | And this is a sort of erm a car station . |
| 14 | Um , now may be , according to Burstow , this is a sort of self-serving thing as well because it 's a way of saying , if you just say that that say your father sexually abused you for no good reason , that 's a very frightening thing to say . |
| 15 | This is his final total after he 'd been all the way round St Aldate 's , he went round 73 houses , and he says here , I think this is a sort of hieroglyphic that would probably mean something like 'item' . |
| 16 | This is the sort of cheap bitter jibe we love to say to each other when we feel wronged by life and attribute it to the lukewarm stew of Englishness . |
| 17 | Accusations of cynical pension-planning inevitably follow , as do questions about whether this is the sort of thing that grown men should be up to . |
| 18 | If you — the audience — came round to my place , this is the sort of evening we 'd have . ’ |
| 19 | This is the sort of stuff you should be asking us ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 21 | When thinking about the bereaved , this is the sort of network of family and friends it becomes even more crucial to identify and contact . |
| 22 | ‘ There are still tons of things I want to do and this is the sort of place I 'd love to have , ’ says Kylie , walking to one of her favourite shops in her home country . |
| 23 | This is the sort of image that , some commentators argue , Aquinas is trying to convey . |
| 24 | Be careful I thought , this is the sort of thing you were warned against . |
| 25 | This is the sort of poverty we should cultivate ; on the physical side as ordinary men possessing what we have , but on the mental side — as nomads possessing nothing . |
| 26 | This is the sort of task that falls under the general heading of ‘ conflict analysis ’ or ‘ conflict research ’ . |
| 27 | This is the sort of CD that the ‘ ordinary ’ music-lover is likely to pass over in favour of something better known , on the assumption that ‘ German Harpsichord Music before Bach ’ would be of interest to the specialist only . |
| 28 | This is the sort of thing , so an undertaker told me , that only the Irish do in Britain these days ! |
| 29 | If the feminist folklinguistic belief that women are less or differently logical than men is a matter of content , it could be that this is the sort of thing feminists have in mind . |
| 30 | This is the sort of situation which leads to our distinguishing ‘ ourselves as we feel ourselves to be ’ and ‘ ourselves as we are to others ’ . |