Example sentences of "any sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music can be of any sort , of any age , and no matter how tattered or torn . |
| 2 | There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise . |
| 3 | And yet , he wrote , if the glass is to be any sort of advance , it will be because of the middle . |
| 4 | Give them the confidence that comes from knowing that you care , and will help if they have problems of any sort . |
| 5 | There is certainly an element which highly values the proprieties of artistic freedom : a work of art must be a work of free spirit , untrammelled by rules and regulations , wherein absolute consistency — or conformity of any sort — is out of place . |
| 6 | IN A culture and a century that have doubts about matching up to Prince Hamlet , feeling fitted at best to the role of attendant lord , it 's astonishing that Shakespeare 's Henry V should become , except at a time of national emergency , a resonant figure of any sort . |
| 7 | You suspect , though , that featuring male witches is a reaction to economic demands rather than any sort of radical reinterpretation in this , the Redgrave 's first Shakespeare in many years . |
| 8 | The rates should not be compared with those for , say , 16-year-old school-leavers ; what we are really measuring is difficulty in finding a graduate-level job , not difficulty in finding a job of any sort . |
| 9 | Have their parents got any sort of criminal record ? |
| 10 | The central authorities had great difficulty from the start of NEP in collecting taxes of any sort . |
| 11 | Eliot has been careful to avoid any sort of sentimental religiosity , and this strengthens greatly the play 's climax . |
| 12 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 13 | Under the Summerskill regime it seems that officials can indulge in any sort of brutality they like . |
| 14 | ‘ I hate confrontations of any sort , ’ he adds . |
| 15 | ‘ Now I also want to know if you keep any sort of diary or engagement book yourself . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And we learnt all the paint effects to produce any sort of wooden finish or marbling . ’ |
| 17 | Until comparatively recently English vineyards had never had any sort of reputation for producing fine wines . |
| 18 | Places dedicated to film presentation , the penny gaffes , did start to spring up at the beginning of the new century , but it was only with the emergence of long films around 1910 that cinema acquired any sort of institutional presence in British towns . |
| 19 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
| 20 | ‘ I would like to think that any sort of physical abuse does n't go on any more , but this does not mean that people might not get a bucket of water over them sometimes . ’ |
| 21 | There was not a herb or flowering plant of any sort to be met on our walks that he did not know , and hardly one that was not invaluable as a remedy for some complaint . |
| 22 | Dried specimens of any sort were always kept by him and roots of many more . |
| 23 | It is doubtful that universal propositions of any sort can be got . |
| 24 | This would certainly explain how they came to feel the need to have some wider understanding of how , and to what extent , we can acquire knowledge of any sort . |
| 25 | Only 34 from Emburey gave the bowlers any sort of target to defend , although 147 was obviously nothing like enough . |
| 26 | Nigel could n't stand poetry of any sort — well , perhaps limericks or his own early efforts . |
| 27 | If you 're going to make any sort of impression on this superior person , you 'll have to make an impact soon instead of demonstrating little else but shyness . |
| 28 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 29 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 30 | No , I do not wish to give any sort of name to it because I do not yet grasp the true meaning of this ‘ presence' : all that I sense , however vaguely , is that it or he or He is not hostile . |