Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] the sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence in such deserts as the Sahara of vast lakes such as mega-Chad which overflowed into the Bodele depression south of the Tibesti seems more the sort of feature which would have resulted from increased Pleistocene rainfall . |
| 2 | This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result . |
| 3 | Locke 's late seventeenth-century confidence in reason represented precisely the sort of view that Wesley 's eighteenth-century religious revival was designed to subvert . |
| 4 | In a fast moving industry they fear that , unless they are continuously involved in development work , their skills will deteriorate , and this will affect not only their future earning power , but also their ability to take on the sort of work they enjoy . |
| 5 | The new formula rules out the sort of easy-listening rock channel , aimed at 25-35-year-olds , that advertisers would prefer . |