Example sentences of "[adj] [is] just [art] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is just a sort of first list , the one thing erm you were going to ask Jimmy ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing you would do — to make yourself look big — to make me look a fool . |
| 11 | That 's just the sort of thing you 'd like ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing your mum says . ’ ) |
| 13 | Well , as Messrs Waugh and Ingrams could confirm , that 's just the sort of treacherous , duplicitous behaviour one has come to expect from young people today ( just as this shameless betrayal of an employee is typical of us incipient oldsters ) . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's just the sort of thing they 'd do . ’ |
| 15 | But that 's just the sort of costly stunt that the unconventional Richard Branson attempts when he 's not at the helm of his two highly successful businesses , music group Virgin and airline Virgin Atlantic . |
| 16 | ‘ Other arrangements ' — that 's just the sort of stinking thing he 'd say . ’ |
| 17 | Course we do … that 's just the sort of thing that the scum would think is n't it . |
| 18 | And what 's more , that 's just the sort of communicative fear which turns a piece of fiction into a potential slice of reality . |
| 19 | that 's just the sort of kid he is |