Example sentences of "is some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Question : does this suggest that ( a ) his nine lives are up ; or ( b ) this is some sort of vision for the future of the health service ? |
| 2 | Most people have absorbed the idea that there is some sort of accountability at the end of life and that they may well need to be preparing to ‘ meet their maker ’ . |
| 3 | It appears that income tax is payable annually at 35 p.c. with no allowances and there is some sort of capital tax every five or 10 years . |
| 4 | In all cases the explanation is that there is some sort of physical attraction between the centromeres of similar ancestry . |
| 5 | There is some sort of lesson there for the autograph collector , who need not despair if the great names are beyond his aspirations and his purse . |
| 6 | When students come across it they assume it is some sort of technical language . |
| 7 | The second is some sort of percentage rate of interest . |
| 8 | We are inclined to think that the grammar of the linguistic expression is some sort of consequence of the process being of a certain kind ; for example , that ‘ I remember X-ing ’ is true if and only if I X-ed because remembering is a process in which one somehow sees into the past . |
| 9 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 10 | It is tempting to think that what is being attempted is some sort of solar containment , trapping the power of the sun and storing for energy . |
| 11 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 12 | Even if this wo n't always happen , it will certainly happen often enough for the range of my knowledge to be considerably reduced , and this itself is some sort of an objection . |
| 13 | It is difficult to see how any of the dramatic problems of the modern world thrown up by the exhaustion of Fordism — can be solved unless there is some sort of co-operation among major and lesser powers and some sort of political involvement of those groups and movements that articulate concern about these global problems . |
| 14 | The depression on the ‘ blade ’ and the overall shape suggest to me that it is some sort of agricultural implement , such as a weeding paddle or potato lifter . |
| 15 | ‘ You have only to look at him to see he is some sort of a relation , ’ she said sharply . |
| 16 | Half of them think Riven is some sort of magical warrior from across the southern sea . |
| 17 | It would seem , therefore , that there is some sort of life to be eked out in the dark world on the periphery of the EEC even before the foundation , hopefully in 1993 , of the European Economic Area by which 380 million people of Efta and the EEC are to join forces to provide one ‘ home market ’ . |
| 18 | Rollins understands that Mark is some sort of shrink . |
| 19 | Do you think ignorance is some sort of fucking protection ? |
| 20 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 21 | No , merely that there is some sort of connection . |
| 22 | Presumably his anonymity at Maine Rd is some sort evidence as to why Wilko offloaded him . |
| 23 | The first solution that might occur to an engineer is some sort of frequency coding : each bat might have its own private frequency , just like separate radio stations . |
| 24 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 25 | ‘ I seem to recall hearing you say that the last thing you needed was a husband-hunting female who thinks this is some sort of pleasure cruise . |
| 26 | What we do need is the equivalent of what we 've got in the documents which I 've given to you which is some sort of allowance for every bit of control of the thing . |
| 27 | Assimilation of place with specific reference to alveolar consonants is described in Gimson ( 1960 ) .1 think it is important to realise that the traditional view of assimilation as a change from one phoneme to another is naive ; modern instrumental studies in the broader field of coarticulation show that when assimilation happens one can often show how there is some sort of combination of articulatory gestures . |
| 28 | Which I suppose is some sort of ability |
| 29 | near the leaves , it looks like , give , this is some sort of quarry or something , you know when they |
| 30 | Some are further ahead than others , but what will probably be expected of most authorities is some sort of erm perhaps a handbook or certainly some advice to parents about the implications of the new Act . |