Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 2 | It needs some sort of collective arrangement on exchange rates . |
| 3 | It has all sorts of graphics engines built in , including one for line drawing and a fast bit-blitter for quick block moves and 2Mb of video RAM . |
| 4 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 5 | I think it 's a perfect example of rumour feeding on rumour , that once something gets into the market place it causes all sorts of entrepreneurial people out there to think there 's an opportunity they ought not to miss . |
| 6 | It must be likely that in due course a parent company in the UK will be legally responsible for the debts of at least its wholly owned subsidiaries unless , perhaps , it files some sort of public disclaimer . |
| 7 | It uses all sorts of quantitative and qualitative data , and allows all types of subjective and objective assessments . |
| 8 | If it possesses some sort of strength — physical , chemical or armoured — it can face up boldly to its enemies and defy them . |
| 9 | ‘ And it raises all sorts of questions about the car crash , does n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | It includes all sorts of conditions of people in its audience , and it links them — in the cliche beloved by trade union spokesman — at that moment in time . |
| 11 | Erm the second point I 'd like to make is er we danced round this phrase presumption this morning , I 've tried to avoid using it because its its it gets all sorts of er connotations going . |
| 12 | It takes some sort of public document for people to get you out of a rut . ‘ |
| 13 | Now we 're told to , you know , beware of having too much fats , too much milk , too much this , that and the other because it creates all sorts of what 's the truth ? |
| 14 | Did n't it have this sort of political pattern to it |
| 15 | It seems this sort of thing 's been going on ever since the Romans colonized Sardinia and drove the indigenous population off the rich pasture in the lowlands up into the Barbagia . ’ |
| 16 | But I liked er general work , it , it brought all sorts of things in . |
| 17 | But it fastens some sort of cohabitation rule upon them . |
| 18 | I mean it had that sort of look to it . |
| 19 | It had all sorts of implications . |
| 20 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 21 | Certainly this can be done , though whether it provides any sort of explanation is questionable . |
| 22 | Admission to a Home is a very big step in a person 's life — and it brings all sorts of fears and anxieties . |