Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the nineteenth century it was de rigueur to think that the Universe was filled with a sort of stuff called the luminiferous aether : disagree with that notion and you could say farewell to your hopes of a professorship . |
| 2 | What sort of work did the maids do in the house ? |
| 3 | What sort of life does the guard lead ? |
| 4 | It 's not really part of Foulness — if you look closely you can see that it 's cut off from Foulness proper by a sort of strait linking the rivers Roach and Crouch . |
| 5 | Use any sort of pasta to make the Special Macaroni , or you could try rice instead . |
| 6 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 7 | This sort of rhetoric masks the policy impetus and philosophy behind these ’ choices ’ : two theories of population which uphold the very exploitative social relations feminists are struggling against . |
| 8 | What sort of influence did the directors and managers have with choosing the team ? |
| 9 | The final task was to construct some sort of cover to prevent the fish from jumping out . |
| 10 | It can not be doubted that the constable was ‘ on duty ’ when he stopped the cyclist , and he was no doubt under some sort of obligation to stop the cyclist to enable him to bring the defendant before the court ultimately . |
| 11 | She is just the sort of girl to stimulate the artistic temperament . |
| 12 | The one pipe pumped it full , the other — you were always scared it stuck , some sort of ballcock worked the thing — splashed it out . |
| 13 | What sort of percentage do the erm essays that we hand in before the exams |
| 14 | Therefore , it is necessary to have some sort of measure to gauge the quality of the estimate . |
| 15 | It was worth a looksee anyway and there was bound to be somebody around to ask ; a poacher or an itinerant hop-picker or whatever sort of person wandered the countryside these days . |
| 16 | In fact , what sort of shape did the midfield play ? |
| 17 | But I mean , if it was costing this sort of money to clear the pipes and so forth out , what I fail to understand is if we 're having a full overhaul of the machine , why this was n't incorporated within it . |
| 18 | This sort of approach suited the violent attitudes of the age : as much money was invested in expeditions for private warfare against Spain as in all the trading and land-settling companies of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 19 | While this remains of importance , this sort of approach overlooks the part the mass media play in generating public perceptions of political and social change as well as of policies and decision-making processes . |
| 20 | The sort of difficulty facing the notion of defeasibility can again best be illustrated by an example . |
| 21 | According to Chomsky , we are genetically pre-programmed to search for just this sort of structure underlying the sentences that we hear as infants . |
| 22 | Whether or not we are prepared to accept that the Neanderthals had an advanced but abstract civilization , we are left with a question : what sort of civilization did the Neanderthals have ? |
| 23 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 24 | A large , ungainly and abrasive man , he was not the sort of material to make the grade in the SAS in the normal way , but Stirling obviously had his reasons for taking him on . |
| 25 | This sort of analysis makes the rest of the programme much easier to plan . |
| 26 | The Labour Party seems to think that the SNP has some sort of duty to oppose the Government whatever the issue . |
| 27 | Because erm even going back to those days it was the bright ones that were pushed forward and the the sort of dog take the hinder most sort of thing you know . |
| 28 | I started by asking ‘ What sort of religion do the British favour ? ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ What sort of confidence does the Labour Party have ? |
| 30 | Benchmark tests are commonly used to give the reader some idea of how well a PC performs — is it fast , slow , or average , is its video performance up to scratch , what sort of speed does the hard disk go at , and that kind of thing . |