Example sentences of "not [art] sort [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He is not the sort of person who sits on the sidelines giving instructions . |
| 32 | but then , on the other hand , I 'm not the sort of person who , I mean , if it 's something like that I can ask people , but I 've got friends who are quite cheeky , who will ask things , I mean , like if somebody does something for me , I 'm like , are you sure , are you sure , you do n't mind , and like , I 'm like over the top the other way . |
| 33 | That is not the sort of society that I would wish to belong to . |
| 34 | He is not the sort of child usually considered open to the notion of writing , reading , or listening to poetry . ) |
| 35 | Not the sort of love that you see in films when the big hairy hero takes his girlfriend in his arms , half suffocates her with a big slobbering kiss and then says , ‘ I love you , Ermentrude . ’ |
| 36 | Obviously that 's not the sort of love I would have got from Keith or whoever , it 's not secure like there 's someone looking after me . |
| 37 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 38 | Warlow pointed out , quite correctly , that this is not the sort of inversion we should be looking at : if the Earth flipped over in this way the Sun would still rise in the east , whereas there are legends that , before the ( undescribed ) catastrophe , the Sun rose in the west , and that it is only since that catastrophe that the Sun has risen in the east . |
| 39 | This was not the sort of fog one is used to in towns , but a veil of salt-smelling white , damp and mild , with all the soft brilliance of a thin curtain drawn between earth and sun . |
| 40 | ‘ It 's not the sort of work Super Mario has ever had to do , but I feel a little more patriotic about this than any of my other jobs , ’ he says . |
| 41 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 42 | Giles Hawick was not the sort of man you could flatten easily , and if you managed it , he would not pop up , bright , smiling and bearing no grudge , to face you the next ti me . |
| 43 | Coleby was a shark , not the sort of man to pay more when he could pay less . |
| 44 | He was not the sort of man who gets sentimental about old friendships . |
| 45 | And the reason he remains friends with his ex-wives and lovers is that he 's a man 's man , essentially , he 's not the sort of man who would not have women friends around him unless they had , in some way , been involved with him . |
| 46 | Cool-headed and light-hearted about life , Zeelenberg is not the sort of man to have been worried by the doubters . |
| 47 | The House of Commons accepted him as a quiet , agreeable member of some substance , not the sort of man who would ever dominate in debate , or who would lead a school of thought , but a man who with three or four others might constitute a very effective block within his party to a course or an individual of which or whom they did not approve . |
| 48 | Francis : the judge considered why Findlay had signed the interview notes and concluded that the toothache was exaggerated and that though tired he was not the sort of man who would have signed incriminating notes out of consideration for his solicitor . |
| 49 | He did n't keep me waiting , however ; he was not the sort of man who needed gimmicks to make his effects . |
| 50 | ‘ You 're right , Bill 's not the sort of man to include information like that in casual conversation . |
| 51 | Because he 's not the sort of man you can bully … ’ |
| 52 | But then Paul is not the sort of man to talk about his private life at work . |
| 53 | He 's not the sort of man you order around ! ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Well , she might have been angry with him , ’ Adele chattered on , ‘ but he 's not the sort of man one can ignore , is he ? |
| 55 | You 're not the sort of man who likes to get into trouble , are you ? ’ |
| 56 | He is not the sort of man you wait to see what he will do to you . |
| 57 | It was a relief to attend to his words and not his presence , although he was not the sort of man to be easily put from the mind . |
| 58 | It was not the sort of gag one would have expected from Lord King , and it set a certain tone … |
| 59 | ( c ) The removal of the unenforceable provision does not so change the character of the contract that it becomes " not the sort of contract that the parties entered into at all " . |
| 60 | It 's not the sort of knowledge one likes to have spread around . ’ |