Example sentences of "sort of [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , I mean , these sorts of rather broad brush suggestions , er , a total of , I 'm not very good at arithmetic , something of two hundred and forty thousand pounds , those two , plus I think , an actual reduction in certainly two and three if not erm , remo removal . |
| 2 | You know , they , they , they can be a bit hard , they can be a bit bitter , they can drink a bit too much , they can be a bit promiscuous , they can be all sorts of rather iffy things but I do n't think Lyndsey will . |
| 3 | It gives readers that necessary tug which will take them through all sorts of possibly wearisome matters to the final page . |
| 4 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 5 | Oh I should think it erm melts out the marrow and does all sorts of quite good things for it . |
| 6 | And , the story line could go and over the horizon she could see all sorts of very colourful kites flying in the sky that other children were flying in that lovely afternoon ! |
| 7 | ‘ We played all sorts of really funny ones , just little ones . |
| 8 | I have meandered round all sorts of fairly obscure topics , just about pleasing the Chair by remaining in order , knowing that whatever I said it would not make the slightest difference to the outcome of the private Bill . |
| 9 | There are all sorts of comparatively small changes you can make which will transform your kitchen 's looks out of all proportion to the time and expense . |
| 10 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 11 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 12 | But , but they really are quite quite difficult you know , and almost you want your sort of most skilled people er doing that really erm |
| 13 | I should think Alex has become a sort of completely different boy , of when you think how , of when he first had him |
| 14 | No , no I was gon na say some you know , just sort of just some ideas are good but I tell you have n't they got some beautiful erm candle holders around this year some really unusual ones . |
| 15 | Romania in 1944 was typical of the sort of partially industrialized society which became Communist and then suffered exaggerated , one-sided industrial development as a result . |
| 16 | So the acceleration here is sort of pretty sharp acceleration to start with , then a fairly steadyish acceleration , |
| 17 | So that if you say to a primary teacher ‘ Here 's a new toy , here 's a new idea , why not try it ? ’ then they 've got the opportunity to do so without sort of dramatically changing things . |
| 18 | It 's sort of rather plain cream on the back |
| 19 | Do people sort of artificially put on their best behaviour , as it were , or something like that , and thereby give a sort of rather distorted impression as to what 's really going on . |
| 20 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
| 21 | You , you did get funny things like that that er that sort of rather lightened things . |
| 22 | She had the same colour hair , all yellow and curly , and she walked in just the same way , sort of little bouncing steps . |
| 23 | But the smaller they are , the greater the probability within them of the sort of unacceptably crude proportionality that is furnished by the STV in Ireland and of consequent unfairness to all but the bigger parties . |
| 24 | Sort of past half way . |
| 25 | An equality of influence in the world between superpowers in the capacity to annihilate each other ( and ourselves ) may , for a while , alter the course of human history from one of repeated wars of a more or less controlled sort of strictly limited skirmishes in ‘ away from home ’ territories . |
| 26 | I think , I do n't know if , I 'm finding it quite difficult at the moment because he , he 's sort of neither one thing nor the other and we 're out a lot sort of |
| 27 | , it 's all done with some sort of ultra sound thing . |
| 28 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 29 | lets face it , if , if Russia had wanted to declare war , to , declared war on us , sort of right ten years after the second World War had finished , and that would of been it , Europe would of been out |
| 30 | And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough . |