Example sentences of "very [adj] sort of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , is it any oh is it very strenuous sort of thing ? |
| 2 | All such a belief amounts to is a gesture towards something ; and a very strange sort of gesture too , for gestures are normally only comprehensible as public acts with publicly observable objects , while here the gesture is a private act with a private object . |
| 3 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 4 | He looks a very strong sort of person but he walks |
| 5 | I am not a very social sort of person and I find it difficult to have strangers in my home . ’ |
| 6 | That 's a very different sort of activity . |
| 7 | But the first edition of the one-inch map , dated 1833 , shows a very different sort of road , a narrow Saxon road winding and zig-zagging every few yards . |
| 8 | Most antibiotics are bacteria-killers , and because a fungus is a very different sort of beast , these anti-bacterial drugs do not kill off yeasts . |
| 9 | As I told you , I have my eyes on a very different sort of market . |
| 10 | The universe which men will create for themselves , after they have thrown off the tyranny of Phil Schaffer , Roy Chase , himself , and the rest of them , will be a very different sort of place . |
| 11 | This is a very different sort of analysis from structural linguistics that involves not simply exploring the mechanisms of the system but also ‘ decoding ’ its meaning . |
| 12 | But they 're a very peculiar sort of client . ’ |
| 13 | You 'd be a very funny sort of person . ’ |
| 14 | Described as ‘ a very English sort of whimsy ’ , his music is rich with 12-string washes of colour set against gentle keyboards and shuns the more industrial stadium rock extravaganza that is Genesis now . |
| 15 | Erm the next session is rather hard work for you cos it 's very much sort of listening and absorbing a hell of a lot of facts , but I trust you will bear with me . |
| 16 | A very similar sort of enterprise has been engaged in by philosophers interested in the notion of speech act ( addressed in Chapter 5 ) : either by examining a special set of verbs called performative verbs , or by more abstract conceptual analysis , they arrive at classifications of the basic purposes for which language can be used ( see e.g. Searle , 1976 ) . |
| 17 | I would imagine it 'll be a very , very similar sort of game , er hopefully we 'll get the right result , but it 's good for the club to have a good run . |
| 18 | The question of er P P G thirteen and transportation I think is vitally important , York will come into the position that Chester er where I was just at a transportation enquiry recently , it 's a very similar sort of city , it 's not quite the same as Cambridge , where Cambridge is leaping ahead on quite , some would say draconian transportation measures , York in the forceable future will have to look at specialist transportation measures , that 's important in terms of the planning policy guidance that is out , it 's also in the white paper , it may be in draft P P G thirteen , it 's also in I think it 's P P G twenty two , renewable energy , that we should now be looking at developments which is closer to work , that links then to the question of sustainability and viability of a new settlement , I am not aware , and and I put it guardedly in those terms , of any significant employment existing or proposed in any of the new settlement proposals . |
| 19 | So that 's an acid plus a metal , now an acid plus a base which is this one we 've just done , a metal oxide the metal oxides are bases , er you can think of them as being alkaline , we call it basic but very very similar sort of thing to alkaline okay so what happens with a base and an acid ? |
| 20 | A tuple is a very similar sort of thing . |
| 21 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 22 | So it 's a very personal sort of thing really , you know which area you want to go into . |
| 23 | It 's funny 'cos , I mean , the T V news actually provides that function in this country , I think , of the middle ground , whereas it seems to me on a very limited sort of reading that the T V news erm provides a different sort of service in the States . |
| 24 | Okay so that 's er a very straightforward sort of thing . |
| 25 | Here is a story of a very ordinary sort of chap who , when the cut-off time was 60 , became a Gunnery Leader . |
| 26 | Now that looks a very simple sort of thing , it 's quite large , a man stands about that high . |
| 27 | ‘ In a very basic sort of way , ’ Alyssia replied . |
| 28 | Darlington 's Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ This appears to be the very worst sort of abuse of democracy . ’ |
| 29 | The scene in Basic Instinct with Michael was a very weird and very sick sort of love . |
| 30 | In a way I think so , I mean if were quite honest about it but we also see ourselves mirrored in whoever we love we see ourselves mirrored in their eyes which is a very comfortable sort of feeling . |