Example sentences of "be [adj] sort [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one . |
| 2 | Now er I have to warn him there are that sort of conduct has been indulged in to the detriment of the people of Highfields over a significant period by the Labour party . |
| 3 | Expensive they are that sort of thing . |
| 4 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 5 | The theme of the fourth sentence , Some creators , relates to Rimbaud only indirectly on the basis that poets are some sort of creators , but it does not link in with the theme or rheme of the previous sentence . |
| 6 | Seems to have been some sort of mix-up . |
| 7 | It must have been Good it must have been some sort of carbonate , and the salt that was formed was from the hydrochloric acid was calcium chloride , so it must have been ? |
| 8 | Must have been some sort of misunderstanding , ’ said Rose . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's been some sort of misunderstanding , that 's all it is . |
| 10 | ‘ Had there been some sort of quarrel ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You sure you do n't mind me talking about your sister ? ’ he said slowly , with what might have been some sort of smile on his face . |
| 12 | It might have been some sort of optician 's test thing , for all I could say , or a kids ’ puzzle . |
| 13 | You then have to ask yourself the question , If there is n't any Government , if there is n't any er local development pressure of any substance which has brought about the need for this policy , has there been some sort of quantum change in Government policy which has necessitated that we give emphasis to this particular issue . |
| 14 | They have also cast doubt on his client 's character by implying there 's been some sort of fraud . |
| 15 | Oh there must have been some sort of arrangement , I do n't know . |
| 16 | ‘ Old Darlington was quite some place to live in and I reckon daily life must have been some sort of gamble , ’ said Joan . |
| 17 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid there 's been some sort of coup mounted . |
| 19 | I mean obviously this is nothing new , obviously there 's been this sort of thing for some time in the past , but I think what we 've got to ask ourselves is ‘ what sort of a society are we now reaping ? ’ |
| 20 | Which are another sort of fraction . |
| 21 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 22 | The remastering will only really matter if you 're one of those bores with expensive stereos , but if you 're that sort of person then that 's reason enough to buy this . |
| 23 | The remastering will only really matter if you 're one of those bores with expensive stereos , but if you 're that sort of person then that 's reason enough to buy this . |
| 24 | Well , if you 're that sort of person , I would worry about them you see . |
| 25 | We 're that sort of company . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps , my dear fellow , since you 're some sort of detective , you 'd try to get through on the telephone to the Carabinieri . |
| 27 | They 're they 're standard sort of Microsoft menus with sort of |
| 28 | And they 're all sort of brummie type people you know ? |
| 29 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 30 | So , there are these sort of centres all over the country , er but this is the first time that there has been one that has arts and science under the same room . |