Example sentences of "in some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 2 | David Mills , the erstwhile head of the Hazardous Chemical wing of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) — and well known for his criticisms of the lack of effective policing of what he defends as largely sound rules — says that placing high-temperature incinerators in some sort of hierarchy of risks is ‘ a terribly subjective business . ’ |
| 3 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 4 | Many felt that , in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ in some sort of crude sense the physicists have known sin — a knowledge they can not lose . ’ |
| 5 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 6 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 7 | The first was that the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini could , in some sort , be reasonably dealt with ; the second was that a band of rag-tag guerrillas , the Nicaraguan contras , could save the West from Communism . |
| 8 | THE TITLE says it all : the ‘ stolen continents ’ were the lands in North , Central and South America where gentle loving souls lived in some sort of earthly paradise , happily harvesting luxuriant crops and enjoying a stable regime with only ‘ low-key ’ wars . |
| 9 | ‘ Let's get this business of birthrights and loving parents in some sort of perspective . |
| 10 | Bell , on the other hand , might start wanting to pretend to behave in some sort of pseudo British Council evenhanded way over published materials . |
| 11 | And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . |
| 12 | And I recall also some years ago , Mr Rayne , who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginald Mauvis , remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station . |
| 13 | You appear to be in some sort of surreal shopping mall , with the world 's TV laid out for purchase : you almost feel like you should have a shopping trolley , to wheel up and down the aisles . |
| 14 | The majority of owners keep their horses in some sort of livery system , either full , part or DIY . |
| 15 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 16 | Through schemes , such as the Urban Programme and various training programmes , access to funds for local authorities has been shifted to areas in which they engage in some sort of partnership with the departments of central government . |
| 17 | It originates as a MEWING sound in tiny kittens , letting their mother know that they need some kind of help or that they are in some sort of trouble . |
| 18 | The inside of the channel is coated in some sort of Teflon-like substance which ensures that no matter how hard one scrapes along the bottom or smashes into corners , remarkably little blood gets drawn . |
| 19 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 20 | There 's rumours that he 's involved in some sort of organized crime caper outside racing , but it 's difficult to find out more . |
| 21 | That the future 's here too , in some sort of space and time-lock , but we just ca n't catch it visually , experientially . |
| 22 | ( To place this figure in some sort of context , the BBC drama department 's output for the whole of 1991/92 is only 275 hours . ) |
| 23 | Mark my words , Moorer is a real force — a ‘ bad liver ’ who is forever involved in some sort of real-life drama . |
| 24 | ‘ At the time I could see myself eventually in some sort of consultancy capacity . ’ |
| 25 | Ramsay did what he could to try to keep his men in some sort of order , or at least in touch with each other and himself , but this proved to be scarcely feasible . |
| 26 | At one time it was quite obvious that his main sponsor , Essex Petroleum , run by the flamboyant American ex-decorator and former Brussels bus-boy , David Thieme , was in some sort of dire trouble and that this trouble was bound to affect Team Lotus as it did ; Chapman knew I was looking into the complex affairs of Thieme and Thieme 's longstanding relations with Lotus . |
| 27 | Penetrating , complex and totally different in structure , it pulls the single line of melody up and down and spins it out to leave you dangling in some sort of musical nirvana . |
| 28 | I did n't and could n't see it as a progressive condition which was bound to culminate in some sort of breakdown or breakthrough . |
| 29 | ‘ We appear to be in some sort of glass box , ’ said the Thing . |
| 30 | Even if we are assured that the creatures in question are not in any pain , some people will prolong the argument either by insisting that they must be in some sort of distress , or by claiming that even if they are not overtly suffering , what is happening to them is cruel and unwarranted exploitation . |