Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deemed to have been a great success , the HAA indicated that this sort of event would become a regular part of their work — being an extension of their long declared task , to increase the fund of knowledge relating to the operation and display of historic aircraft . |
| 2 | Any sort of publicity could have splashed UNACO across the front page of every newspaper in the world . ’ |
| 3 | This sort of work may involve as much discussion and " off screen " work as actual use of the computer ( see Box 17 ) . |
| 4 | But ministers want to tighten the rules to ensure only people unable to perform any sort of work would qualify for payment . |
| 5 | This sort of work can supply us with clues to the possible way of life of our ancestors , but it does n't really contribute much information about our origins . |
| 6 | Erm , we 've we 've covered the fact that animal models do n't always reflect the human situation , but if we 're going to understand control and eradicate disease in animals , this sort of work must go on . |
| 7 | It follows that people who are seeking this sort of help will undergo several sessions of regression . |
| 8 | What sort of character would have sustained this setting for six years , Theodora wondered , as she parked the car in the hedgerow and lifted the wicket gate six inches in order to swing it open . |
| 9 | What sort of machine can run the largest and most demanding of spreadsheets without a hiccup and yet still be a reasonable price ? |
| 10 | Again , it is not totally inappropriate that this sort of overlap should exist since RMI must build upon the data that exist within the service ; it can not be separate and unrelated to that which currently exists . |
| 11 | Nowadays , that sort of conduct could lead to a social worker 's being asked to take an interest in the child . |
| 12 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 13 | What sort of mitigation could justify that ? |
| 14 | This sort of response can cause a great deal of guilt in people who discover they have such feelings . |
| 15 | This sort of response can cause a lot of confusion for those around who perhaps do not share the same feeling . |
| 16 | One can see what sort of benefit would have been taxable if the courts had decided that a tax charge could arise . |
| 17 | What sort of benefit would claim be written on . |
| 18 | Another thing that did come up at that training day the other day was that we all need a , a , a , anybody that 's going to do any sort of appraising will need to know what the erm training programme is |
| 19 | And if it 's just a matter of lots of calculations , any sort of processor will polish it off in next to no time . ’ |
| 20 | Only that sort of provision will bind the parties in advance . |
| 21 | This sort of complacency could have cost me my life . |
| 22 | A magnified detail drew attention to the skin ; although I could not understand the symbols appended , it looked as if the idea was that the outer skin should have less sensibility , by the withdrawal of nerves and capilliary blood-vessels from the outer layers of the epidermis — in fact , that a sort of hide should develop over the flesh which would render its owner fairly immune to extremes of temperature . |
| 23 | Some sort of squash will do , but put some slices of apple and orange in , to make it look something special . ’ |
| 24 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 25 | Any sort of likeness would bring choruses of ‘ Good , good ’ , ‘ Again , Mrs Tea Cup , again . ’ |
| 26 | But what sort of person will make a good player at Sheffield Shares ? |
| 27 | ‘ I can not believe that eight minutes every day of that sort of exercise will have any significant effect on fitness . ’ |
| 28 | Any sort of picture will do — from newspaper cuttings of sports heroes , and pictures of pop starts , to photographs from the family album . |
| 29 | This sort of launch will attract plenty of people , but the retailer then needs to make sure that they keep on coming , by continuing to advertise . |
| 30 | Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 ) |