Example sentences of "some sort [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well we do n't have a definite answer erm Gill but we think it may have experienced a shock of some sort during that season and of course when this happens to fruit trees they can go into bi-annual cropping and then they come back again , it may be that this horse chestnut 's experienced something very similar . |
| 2 | We are forced to assume ( and this is the second of Le Page 's riders to his hypothesis ) that individual speakers perform an analysis of some sort on the linguistic behaviour of the " group " they wish to identify with . |
| 3 | This nun had read passages of some sort to them but Millie had been unable to make out half of what she had said . |
| 4 | Any matters referred to in the replies , which will need to be taken into account on completion — eg details of the title deeds that will be handed over , the standard requisition as to production of last receipts , a requirement that an outstanding mortgage should be discharged on or before completion , an undertaking of some sort to be given on completion — should be marked " Completion " so that when you come to prepare your completion agenda , these matters can at once be picked out , and no further lengthy perusal of the replies will be needed . |
| 5 | It is tempting to equate shares with rights under a contract , for as we have seen the memorandum and articles of association constitute a contract of some sort between the company and its members and it is these documents which directly or indirectly define the rights conferred by the shares . |
| 6 | An alternative strategy might be for the archivist to get in early in the life of information systems , probably even at the design stage , to imbed selection criteria of some sort into them . |
| 7 | ‘ You say he has a liaison of some sort with the Müller woman , so presumably he 'll be attending the premiere tonight . |
| 8 | There was a fruit pie of some sort with delicious crust pastry — each helping covered with freshly made piping hot custard . |
| 9 | And this co er and used to get w hot water from this tank you see , lift it out with a ooh with some sort with a ladle actually . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it fits very well with the fact that , while obviously having a relation of some sort with the noun , these adjectives are questioned not by the interrogative word usual for attributive adjectives , but by a word which typically is used to question adverbs . |
| 11 | A 4-wheel drive vehicle of some sort with a cow-catcher fitted to the front . |
| 12 | The bottom line here is a Boss for every unit , and a Big Boss of some sort for every Goblin unit ( preferably an Orc ) . |
| 13 | Although there has been a settlement of some sort at North Shields since the Middle Ages , the modern town is a product of the addition of industrial capitalism to mercantile capitalism . |
| 14 | Peeping over the low parapet , I saw men in overalls building a platform or stage of some sort at the foot of the choir-screen steps . |
| 15 | Each of the two principal actors glimpses his double in passing , as a reflection in a glass , and each stands to the other in the same relation — a relation which presupposes , as in many other Gothic texts , some sort of metempsychosis or rebirth . |
| 16 | Ursula figures as ‘ some sort of Hungarian countess ’ whose parents were estranged and who was to be estranged from her ominous father . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 19 | Some sort of tension I suppose . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps , my dear fellow , since you 're some sort of detective , you 'd try to get through on the telephone to the Carabinieri . |
| 21 | She says she 's some sort of detective . |
| 22 | Theirs is a much more popular course , admittedly , but we must have some sort of chance , somewhere along the line . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Look , ’ she then began by saying , ‘ there must be some sort of council accommodation for people like you . |
| 24 | Some sort of a flat in Harwich , I think she said . |
| 25 | I now needed to make some sort of a decision . |
| 26 | ‘ Some sort of Housing Association thing maybe . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm still some sort of bird , ’ said Marina . |
| 28 | On the radio , Peter from Crawley whittering some sort of shit , what ? |
| 29 | Once this is achieved — and this , it is held , can be done by some sort of physicalist theory of mind with strong behaviourist elements — then most of the insoluble problems of early modern philosophy disappear . |
| 30 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |