Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the sort [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that it 's impossible — indeed , it 's rather the sort of thing Oliver might do — but I 've somehow stopped believing most of what he says . |
| 2 | that 's basically the sort of revelation is n't it ? |
| 3 | ‘ It 's exactly the sort of stuff I as a historian would love to read about a period , ’ Mr Clark says modestly of his own offering . |
| 4 | You would n't let a thief tow away your home — but that 's exactly the sort of invitation you give a criminal if your caravan is n't secured ! |
| 5 | In the end support staff act as information switches and this is exactly the sort of function that can be taken over by electronic data processing . |
| 6 | Dr Mawhinney told MPs in a Commons written reply : ‘ This impressive contribution from GPs and their practice teams is exactly the sort of response we are looking for to take forward our plans to improve the nation 's health . ’ |
| 7 | But the assumption that speech is primary and superior is exactly the sort of leap made when literary discourse is scoured for authorial intention ; the personal voice is expected to validate the description of experience . |
| 8 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 9 | I shall certainly look at that , but this is exactly the sort of issue in which I do not want us to get involved . |
| 10 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 11 | 3 ( a ) Possession is exactly the sort of book that deserves to win the Booker Prize . |
| 12 | ( b ) Possession is exactly the sort of book you 'd expect to win the Booker Prize . |
| 13 | It is a place of calm and classical beauty : I am afraid it is exactly the sort of place for which one must long most desperately when out of Greece . |
| 14 | And Hong Kong is not the sort of story likely to have the traditional happy ending . |
| 15 | Warlow pointed out , quite correctly , that this is not the sort of inversion we should be looking at : if the Earth flipped over in this way the Sun would still rise in the east , whereas there are legends that , before the ( undescribed ) catastrophe , the Sun rose in the west , and that it is only since that catastrophe that the Sun has risen in the east . |
| 16 | Cool-headed and light-hearted about life , Zeelenberg is not the sort of man to have been worried by the doubters . |
| 17 | But then Paul is not the sort of man to talk about his private life at work . |
| 18 | He is not the sort of man you wait to see what he will do to you . |
| 19 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 20 | He is not the sort of person who sits on the sidelines giving instructions . |
| 21 | He is not the sort of child usually considered open to the notion of writing , reading , or listening to poetry . ) |
| 22 | That is not the sort of society that I would wish to belong to . |
| 23 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 24 | This is not the sort of publicity they enjoy . |
| 25 | I suppose there is not the sort of money around that we would want . ’ |
| 26 | Certainly , this is not the sort of behaviour that modern judges have in mind when they refer to young thugs as behaving ‘ like animals ’ . |
| 27 | By way of preparation for this Friday the 13th escapade somebody handed over A Dictionary of Superstitions , which is not the sort of inspiration one needs . |
| 28 | It took about a year to organize , partly because the idea blossomed in the summer , too late for that year ; it is not the sort of place to go cycling in the winter . |
| 29 | ‘ T is not the sort of place you are used to , and we still have to get there . |
| 30 | This is not the sort of statement you 'd expect from a man who won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the NCR ( National Cash Registers ) non-fiction prize with his first book . |