Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] the sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weather permitting , this is surely the sort of event of which Philippa would approve . |
| 2 | But , as Peter immediately tells his father , this is just the sort of bon mot to expect from an idler who is being kept in the lap of luxury . |
| 3 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |
| 4 | This is just the sort of thing that we were all afraid of . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , this is just the sort of shit the Editor would write . |
| 6 | This is just the sort of problem the family historian has to be aware of . |
| 7 | Mr Chairman , it 's just , just the sort of reason why we did n't su did n't support spending eight thousand pounds on , on some low pay unit , this is just the sort of thing that we feel that , that Committee 's money should be spent on . |
| 8 | Chairman , I believe that this is just the sort of motion that can only bring local government into disrepute It 's an abuse of power the council holds lands in the county farms estate for purposes set out in the nineteen sixty agriculture act . |
| 9 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 10 | In the end support staff act as information switches and this is exactly the sort of function that can be taken over by electronic data processing . |
| 11 | I shall certainly look at that , but this is exactly the sort of issue in which I do not want us to get involved . |
| 12 | We are inclined to think that this is a way of using the structure in principle , but that this is simply the sort of thing that no speaker is ever likely to want to say . |
| 13 | This is hardly the sort of catchy title guaranteed to get most of us rushing to our desks in search of pen and paper , nor is it easy to imagine squeezing into packed village halls to listen to speeches demanding a rewrite of the rules on deferred taxation . |
| 14 | This is precisely the sort of position one would expect given the combination of their respectable backgrounds , in almost all cases their membership of the Free Presbyterian Church , and their belief that the appeasement policies of the government and the Chief Constable have to be opposed publicly . |
| 15 | This is precisely the sort of work to play to your friends if you want to keep them guessing as to the true identity of the composer . |
| 16 | The recent history of community care projects has not been encouraging ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 22 ) But this is precisely the sort of area to which research needs to be directed in the immediate future of relative demographic stability , because it is so crucial and because our ignorance of future patterns of demand is so great . |
| 17 | I think that 's a bit more mod really , thing is this is more the sort you had is n't it ? |
| 18 | But for all Dwyer 's optimism , this was just the sort of loose game in which the Wallabies excel and , although they have undoubted talent , the youngsters are going to find things considerably tighter in France . |
| 19 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 20 | This was just the sort of thing Henry wanted to read . |
| 21 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 22 | This was just the sort of thing — a secret service playing God — that usually had George registering y on the Richter Scale . |
| 23 | Not physically ; this was more the sort of fear you had as a child — of ghosties and ghoulies and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night . |
| 24 | These are just the sort of qualities that Orcs really admire ! |
| 25 | These are exactly the sort of voters Labour needs in the South , where the Conservatives retain a 14-point mid-term lead . |
| 26 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 27 | In order to preserve modularity , this power could not , of course , extend to repairing the modules themselves , for that is just the sort of tinkering that a principle of modularity would rule out . |
| 28 | That is precisely the sort of vulnerable intellectual position which the ‘ meaning ’ theist defends . |
| 29 | That is precisely the sort of dangerous and unhealthy state which the mystic is cautioned to avoid . |
| 30 | You would n't let a thief tow away your home — but that 's exactly the sort of invitation you give a criminal if your caravan is n't secured ! |