Example sentences of "[verb] the sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
| 2 | After all , there must have been many comfortable nursing homes in Sydney where her father , who had then been having difficulty in telling even night from day , would have received the sort of care and attention which he had needed . |
| 3 | Noting that the Marxist classics attribute great importance to the possibility of replacing officials , Hegedus argues that ‘ for the most part , administration involves the sort of functions where a planned rotation of official personnel is expedient not only for the sake of opposing bureaucratic tendencies but also for the sake of greater efficiency ’ . |
| 4 | If punishment is assimilated into the probation glossary it will inevitably influence the sort of practice the Service undertakes . |
| 5 | Although I do not begin to claim the sort of historical breadth of either Brown or Bynum , I do believe that their approach is not only helpful but necessary if we are going , as we must , to use the lives of women before us to encourage us forward . |
| 6 | Er , I do n't physically have to type out the labels , but I have physically have to be in the office , to initiate the computer sorts , because under something called personal job insurance scheme , I 've layered the sort of routine under a lot of security codes and I 'm only , the only person who knows where they are . |
| 7 | THE London Monarchs made the sort of World League history they could do without when they gave up a record eight turnovers in Saturday 's 13–7 defeat at Barcelona Dragons . |
| 8 | I asked my guide if they made the sort of paper that was used for books ; she said they made every sort of paper . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend the Member for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) made the sort of eloquent and well-informed speech that we have come to expect from him every time . |
| 10 | Outside the doorway , she paused , took a deep breath , and made the sort of entrance she 'd sworn she 'd never make again , her stride long and sensual , her head back so that her hair moved against her bare shoulders , her mouth curved into a soft , sexy smile . |
| 11 | Tim Cornish , as Film and Television Officer for South East Arts , how do you think the new film categories are going to affect the sort of things that you 're putting together ? |
| 12 | ( Within a unix environment this may be easily achieved using the sort and uniq commands . ) |
| 13 | ‘ Fem Sap has never recognized the sort of hierarchy which says that only published authors , or professors of literature , have something worth saying . |
| 14 | Lifestyle data can identify those interested in a particular product or service but can not answer the sort of financial questions which will help the credit marketer achieve success even through a recession . |
| 15 | These particles , this particular matter is generally given the sort of generic term seston some of those particles are mineral particles some of them are colloidal aggregates as the iron tends , iron , iron , ions tend to come together to form colloids in solution and some of them are particles of biological origin . |
| 16 | Well , we got to the commune ( in two buses hired for the participants in our course ) at 9 o'clock , and were given the sort of welcome-for-foreigners which we have got used to elsewhere . |
| 17 | Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do . |
| 18 | Within four weeks of filming her final episode and saying goodbye to her friends at Grundy , Kylie was based in London where she was now enjoying the sort of stardom attention reserved for Madonna and Michael Jackson . |
| 19 | Embarrassing as those moments were for me , I would not wish to imply that I in any way blame Mr Farraday , who is in no sense an unkind person ; he was , I am sure , merely enjoying the sort of bantering which in the United States , no doubt , is a sign of a good , friendly understanding between employer and employee , indulged in as a kind of affectionate sport . |
| 20 | Among other things , Peaks Marine supplies the sort of deck canopy you might shelter under to keep the rain out of your Pimms at Henley . |
| 21 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew I had landed my 100th winner , ’ Charlie told me ‘ but I never expected the sort of reaction I received from the crowd . |
| 23 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 24 | It is normal mode of practice to put any old thing on the plate ( a company 's US headquarters is quite normal ) and then a detachable sticker on the neck giving the real story , thus encouraging the sort of ‘ Made in the USA ’ guitar snobbery that continues to exist . |
| 25 | With frontier restrictions coming down all over Europe in 1992 , they fear the sort of epidemic that has been sweeping the rest of the continent . |
| 26 | They would know how to conduct the sort of bright , clever and witty flirtation , full of sexual innuendoes and smart , amusing double entendres , that were well outside her own very limited experience . |
| 27 | The quota legislation is generally depicted as a disastrous blow to the British film industry , dragging down its reputation and perpetuating the sort of mediocrity that previously characterized the output of Stoll and Ideal Studios . |
| 28 | Paragraph two was current solution to see the sort the place where the advertisers as widely as possible , presumably based on the job description . |
| 29 | She said that also now her cousin 's staying with them so Vernon was trying to take this cousin out to see the sort of surrounding district er |
| 30 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |