Example sentences of "sort [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , imposing performance-based emoluments of this sort flies in the face of one major reason for regulation or public ownership in the first place . |
| 2 | And politics of a sort come into the fray with David 's contributions : ‘ Seen And Not Heard ’ comparing family values to government ; ‘ City Poison ’ assessing urban decline ; ‘ Wanderlust ’ presenting Johnny Vagrant , made hollow by the system . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend appreciate that many people are genuinely mystified by what appears to be the astonishing delays — in some cases of years — in dealing with issues of any sort relating to the activities of Mr. Fayed ? |
| 4 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 5 | Drugs of this sort interfere with the moment-to-moment control of blood pressure . |
| 6 | Although a library committee of some sort existed before the project invitation , the head reports that : It was no more than three of four people who were simply monitoring the use of the library and keeping an eye on the books that we needed and the way children used the library . |
| 7 | But in this context the term ‘ interference ’ is commonly used more narrowly to designate those theories that try to explain latent inhibition in terms of the interaction of standard ( usually associative ) processes of learning or performance and without recourse to attentional constructs of the sort employed by the theories discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 8 | Obviously , in both of the instant cases the parties had chosen , for reasons best known to themselves , not to adduce any extra evidence of the sort provided by the tapes . |
| 9 | The nub of the issue is that colour analysis of the sort proposed in the Retinex theory requires analysis of the wavelength output of different parts of the visual field . |
| 10 | Fascist politics , of the sort discussed in the previous chapter , might represent the extremes of prejudice . |
| 11 | Science , as the seventeenth century traditionally understood it , was not something that could result from activities of the sort advocated by the Royal Society . |
| 12 | The worst thing to do would be to impose swingeing increases in personal taxation of the sort advocated by the Labour party , because that would undermine the incentive and enterprise on which jobs depend . |
| 13 | that the property in question was of a sort covered by the innkeeper 's duty . |
| 14 | And if Pig Street were to fall under the axe , there would be a real rag-bag of properties of every sort razed to the ground , including — from the sublime to the ridiculous — a tennis court and a dung pit : |
| 15 | This additional property , Minsky believes , could have a functional or evolutionary explanation , of the sort suggested for the property of modularity itself by Simon , in that the ‘ conscious ’ supreme organizing module would ipso facto be in a position to ‘ debug ’ or repair the connections of the lower modules amongst themselves or to itself . |