Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the [adj] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagine many a western pioneer got the same sort of surprise as I did when the bride eventually arrived ; except that I did n't marry the dog — there 's nothing peculiar about me . |
| 2 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 3 | Such a figure gives the same sort of support to the prediction that the volatility of aggregate demand and its impact on real output are negatively related , as was found by Lucas ( 1973 ) . |
| 4 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 7 | LINKENHOLT MANOR exemplifies the best sort of modest solid Edwardian country house . |
| 8 | If Vanilla Ice spouted the same sort of shit they did he 'd be pilloried . |
| 9 | The tablet uses the same sort of membrane technology as that used by the ZX81 or ZX Spectrum keyboards and provides a 256 by 256 point resolution . |
| 10 | ‘ Ron wants Ray to do the same sort of job , and there are definite similarities between the two , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to get shadow to convey the haunting feeling of the place but despite getting there at 4.30am each morning and waiting all day for the sun to cast the right sort of light , I finally took the picture in moonlight three days later . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to get shadow to convey the haunting feeling of the place but despite getting there at 4.30am each morning and waiting all day for the sun to cast the right sort of light , I finally took the picture in moonlight three days later . ’ |
| 13 | I have seen many other companies working the same sort of processes , and I have yet to find one which seems to have the final solution . |
| 14 | The second question makes the same sort of enquiry about the relations between categories . |
| 15 | The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows . |
| 16 | The clientele seemed the same sort of rich mixture as ever , and the game of guessing who was what — could the distinguished looking old boy be a Thuringian baron , the owner of a launderette chain in South Dakota or a villain from South Croydon ? — kept all its old charm . |
| 17 | And in a relatively small way , but when you think of the other universities doing the same sort of thing , in a larger way , we are offering this kind of opportunity to people . |
| 18 | I did though on one occasion not long ago , pluck up the courage to attempt the required sort of reply . |
| 19 | Research on Yorkshire suggests the same sort of early arrangements , with the large estates there being called shires ( the equivalent of the maenor in medieval Wales and what Glanville Jones terms the discrete estate or federal manor in England ) . |
| 20 | A fountain pen in Paris fulfils the same sort of emblematic function as a car and may cost almost as much : all kinds of social and identity messages are tied up in it . |
| 21 | ‘ It ought to be called ‘ The Barber of Fawlty Towers ’ since Peter Knapp 's hilarious version of Rossini 's classic deserves the same sort of popularity enjoyed by that series ’ The Guardian Sun in English by Travelling Opera Directed by Peter Knapp |
| 22 | Fred Titmus bowled the right sort of ball and I smashed it in the direction of the pavilion . |
| 23 | I do n't know whether other oldies have the same sort of dreams , but they bring a very great compensation ; and you wake up feeling very excited having met your old friends again . ’ |
| 24 | People who played golf did , of course , and rich people , but the majority of people wore the same sort of clothes all the time . |
| 25 | Peter , the officer-in-charge , has worked hard to make sure that new staff have the right sort of attitude before they are appointed . |
| 26 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |
| 27 | If you read the correspondence columns of the papers , you will find a remarkable range of people with diplomatic and military experience taking the same sort of view as I do . |
| 28 | Well , Councillor very briefly , in response to Councillor referred the same sort of thing from yourself er , chairman , on on numerous occasions . |
| 29 | All four works present the same sort of world — the teeming , overgrown , majestic Amazonian rainforest that Villa-Lobos knew very well . |
| 30 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |