Example sentences of "not [art] sort [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , this is not the sort of behaviour that modern judges have in mind when they refer to young thugs as behaving ‘ like animals ’ . |
| 2 | IT really was not the sort of behaviour expected at one of England 's oldest golf clubs . |
| 3 | It 's not the sort of question Hello would ask . |
| 4 | It 's not the sort of creativity involved in painting a picture or designing a house . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's not the sort of girl who wants to make political statements with her music . |
| 6 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 7 | You 're not the sort of girl to … dammit ! you 're not a slut like Bella , who 'll sleep with anyone for a cheap thrill . |
| 8 | He was not the sort of evangelist who would have been content with a mere shallow ‘ decision for Christ ’ . |
| 9 | And Hong Kong is not the sort of story likely to have the traditional happy ending . |
| 10 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not the sort of wife you need , Julius . |
| 12 | That 's not the sort of prayer He is going to listen to . |
| 13 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 14 | Now you know — everyone on the paper knows — I 'm not the sort of proprietor who meddles with editorial policy . ’ |
| 15 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 17 | ‘ He was not the sort of person to be involved in drugs . |
| 18 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
| 19 | Says another curator , ‘ Rusty may not have the vision to say , ‘ We need a Guido Reni at the National Gallery ’ he 's not the sort of person who could walk through the baroque galleries and realise they even need one , though if a curator went to him wanting to buy one , I think Rusty would certainly be supportive of the move , whereas Carter would basically have turned up his nose and said ‘ no ’ ’ . |
| 20 | I 'm not the sort of person who gets what they want and then starts longing for something else . |
| 21 | Unlike some of his old friends , she was not the sort of person to go stumbling helplessly into holes . |
| 22 | I mean I 'm not the sort of person who can sit down and watch telly all day , you know |
| 23 | become And I 'm not the sort of person to sit around willy nilly any way . |
| 24 | You really ought to know that I 'm not the sort of person who fails to meet deadlines in her work . ’ |
| 25 | Graham said : ‘ I am not the sort of person who can just sit around reading . |
| 26 | ‘ Michael 's not the sort of person who wants you to be around all the time , ’ she said . |
| 27 | I 'm not the sort of person you think I am . ’ |
| 28 | He says he 's not the sort of person to bear malice against anyone . |
| 29 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 30 | And like I would n't sa , she 's not the sort of person who you 'd think oh you know I mean like |