Example sentences of "sort [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll be getting all sorts for that young girl ! |
| 2 | The ERDF along with other elements of the Structural Funds provide a compensatory mechanism of sorts for potential " losers " . |
| 3 | ‘ Mind you , it 's no wonder she 's been out of sorts after that dreadful business at the tech … and Major Ford tittle-tattling all over the village . ’ |
| 4 | It would pick up all sorts of violent , sexist ideas from TV — ’ |
| 5 | He explains this important possibility , of there being connections which we can not perceive , in terms of features of various sorts of complex idea . |
| 6 | Having divided ideas into simple and complex , he introduces three sorts of complex idea : ‘ modes ’ , ‘ substances ’ , and ‘ relations ’ . |
| 7 | They can be used as short-cuts for all sorts of complex operations and deserve an article of their own . |
| 8 | Now you might be give all sorts of polar coordinates and you 'll be given working with sines and coses which is where we came in . |
| 9 | ‘ They take all sorts of fancy things to trade — brass basins , beads , looking glasses … last time I saw great bales of cotton stuffs , all red and blue and gold . |
| 10 | From somewhere they would suddenly turn up in all sorts of fancy gear , funny sorts of knickerbockers and sweatshirts with strange devices thereon , and also funny hats . |
| 11 | Small nuclear explosions underground ( they are already banned everywhere else ) are just about impossible to distinguish reliably from other sorts of man-made bangs or earthquakes . |
| 12 | Moreover , just as Moore thought that freedom from the naturalistic fallacy made one more ready to recognize that there is a plurality of basically different sorts of good thing , so Ross thought that freedom from this wrong definition of right and duty in terms of good made one ready to recognize that there is a plurality of grounds of obligation , of which the obligation to produce good and reduce bad is just one , or rather two , for he thinks the duty to prevent bad a distinct , and usually more stringent , duty than to produce good . |
| 13 | Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 ) |
| 14 | I hope 1994 will bring you all sorts of good things . |
| 15 | All sorts of small items are needed for the day-to-day running of any shop or office , eg postage stamps , pens , envelopes . |
| 16 | All sorts of small items of royal expenditure were charged to the Barbados and Leeward revenues but no other colony saw any reason to make a similar grant . |
| 17 | Unless they of course there were different sorts of that you know even . |
| 18 | But as they began to see the possibilities of the data highway , they also realised that they did not have the technical expertise to build the sorts of switched networks necessary to bring it off . |
| 19 | But the hotel may well bump up the bill with all sorts of spurious charges . |
| 20 | Luckily I learnt early on that whereas I might see there are all sorts of emotional issues that the person grieving could work on , they may well choose not to . |
| 21 | And parents are really not alone in in bringing up their children , their children are exposed to all sorts of outside influences , through the media , in their peer groups , and those in many ways , I think , are getting worse rather than better . |
| 22 | We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made . |
| 23 | all sorts of managing business and they had to work together and to hold group organisations . |
| 24 | Ah know we 're build in' multi-bloody-storey flats an' whatnot an' there 's all sorts of clever bloody plans for the clever bloody future … . |
| 25 | It is too ghostly proper , all sorts of liveried listenings |
| 26 | Given that you can draw all sorts of amazing objects you might not think that you need to edit them much but IntelliDraw has some powerful editing tools . |
| 27 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 28 | As far as any of them knew , the last elephant fights had taken place around the turn of the century in the princely states of Rajputana ; and as for partridge fights , said my friends , those sorts of Mughal traditions had all died out at Partition . |
| 29 | That body 's president has welcomed the formation of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa ( NOCSA ) , representing all sorts of rival sporting associations , whose chairman , Sam Ramsamy — a veteran campaigner for the sports boycott — now wants to get South Africans back into international competition . |
| 30 | Indeed , the realization should come that there are all sorts of rival positions , and that there is no absolute way of choosing between them . |