Example sentences of "[det] sort [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , erm , right , yeah , that 's all the other items , erm what 's been er been going through my head recently is , is er the , looking at the pattern of the meetings and the way the meetings are arranged and , and how , erm , at the last meeting we had a speaker er and that I think , we all found that quite interesting and the one , one from Central America that things and I feel we ought to have that much more frequently than we do have er , a , either a speaker or a focus of some sort of meetings erm , so I think that 's something I 'd like to raise and get the A G M at the next meeting I think similar thing we ought to consider there . |
| 2 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 3 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 4 | The British Cabinet system simply does not lend itself to that sort of Novices ' Handicap . |
| 5 | Where do you think that more money needs to be spent ? erm well , the government are in the process of launching a massive new initiative called Care in the Community erm I 'm afraid a lot of people working in my neck of the woods find this rather well not amusing , but erm it 's slightly hysterically amusing , because the amount of money that would be needed to fund the projects that are identified as being necessary is enormous , and the government is in no way going to be putting up that sort of funds erm so it comes down to money , and particularly in this community care area . |
| 6 | Testing for these sort of systems erm we had to decide which of these responses is best . |
| 7 | People will stand there and they will clutch something , you see their knuckles are white you know and these sort of things erm or they 'll have their notes you know here , and let's be honest about it yeah I can remember when I started training I think you know you used to cling to your notes a three feet flipchart , you know what ca n't you see ? |
| 8 | So you 've got two of these sort of sessions er er to go through , that 's really the only point . |
| 9 | Cos it 's not just cocoa is it , all sorts of things erm |
| 10 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 11 | Forms for all sorts of , forms for all sorts of things erm the , the normal Platonic range of forms plus possibly in addition forms for Socrates and forms for Plato . |
| 12 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 13 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 14 | We 've tried all sorts of things erm and we 've erm sort of erm included erm Lesley 's Elmore Support Team has come and talked to him and tried to support him as well , so over the years we have done all sorts of things to try and support him , as I have to try and support all sorts of people . |
| 15 | I mean there 's all sorts of things wi in these er books erm the erm |
| 16 | We 've got all sorts of mixes ' . |
| 17 | No my my own view and it 's I I do n't know if I 've come to a view on the relative weight of those sorts of considerations er I I 'd need to think about it some more before I could come to a view on that . |
| 18 | hit the top end get a cross-section o of , but you still get the same , ultimately the same sorts of results erm by , by erm by adopting that policy whereas if you go for trying to draw distinctions , you end up erm |
| 19 | Yeah I 've learnt a lot basically , I 've learnt erm erm basically what sort of organization that is and those other ones I could mention as well which run along the same sort of lines erm I 've learnt to look after myself |