Example sentences of "[verb] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You did n't really think some sort of Grandson Richard , 39 , was going to swoop down out of the sky and carry us off to Florida , did you ? |
| 2 | ‘ As a starting point we would like to see some sort of voluntary test similar to the German system which would then give anglers a discount on the cost of a licence if they passed , ’ added Robin . |
| 3 | ‘ We hope we can build some sort of normal life again . ’ |
| 4 | And I think that for me , having learnt quite a bit about these differences , I find what I want to do now is go forward to see how we can build some sort of unity and on what basis and whether in fact that is required . |
| 5 | Hakim , left behind in Frankfurt in October to arrange some sort of deal , ended up with a promise of 1 ½ ( sic ) hostages in exchange for 1,500 TOWs and pressure for the release of 17 terrorists held in Kuwait . |
| 6 | Says Nina : ‘ Unless there is a valid reason why the man should not see the child , then the courts will probably grant some sort of access . |
| 7 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 8 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 9 | He smiled and lifted his champagne glass to his lips and Ruth expected some sort of challenge thrown out but none came and a strange feeling percolated inside her , almost disappointment , but she shooed away the notion . |
| 10 | Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it . |
| 11 | What Thorfinn did was earn a breathing-space , and the right to lodge some sort of defence in the area . |
| 12 | PERHAPS the Independent Traveller ought to carry some sort of warning : ‘ Reading this section can change your life . ’ |
| 13 | Can you confirm that this is so and whether the accounts would then have to carry some sort of explanatory note to this effect ? |
| 14 | However , the diplomacy which really mattered had always been that of sovereign states ; this final withering away of the claims of other entities to conduct some sort of foreign relations of their own was merely a kind of necessary tidying-up , the clearing of an undergrowth of quasi-diplomacy . |
| 15 | And did n't I make some sort of arrangement to meet somebody ? |
| 16 | It is interesting to find that they have somewhat unusual morphological forms , which may suggest that they do indeed make some sort of special call on speakers ' capacity for linguistic construction . |
| 17 | And since UVA rays are the culprits , and these can penetrate even on dull , cloudy days , it 's wise to wear some sort of sunscreening agent all year round . |
| 18 | Other times I am mean and nasty , and there are other times when I have n't got complete control of myself but I do want some sort of discipline . |
| 19 | If nothing else , he 'd want some sort of come-back if we cheated him after he handed over the money . ’ |
| 20 | I mean I think there are groups of women all over the country very interested in feminism and doing lots of good work and providing support for women who do want some sort of change , and so if that 's what you mean by the women 's liberation movement I think it 's a very good thing . |
| 21 | But although Tit for Tat is strictly speaking not a true ESS , it is probably fair to treat some sort of mixture of basically nice but retaliatory ‘ Tit for Tat-like ’ strategies as roughly equivalent to an ESS in practice . |
| 22 | The provisions made by his executors to establish loan chests at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge after his death suggest that Gilbert may have received some sort of university education . |
| 23 | Of these forty-five had received some sort of special training for a diplomatic career , and a good many had studied outside Russia . |
| 24 | But there are no hard and fast definitions of NFI ; the distinction between a sale by the investor which represents some sort of invisible investment and one which does not is not always easy to see , especially with turn-key contracts . |
| 25 | And basically we can draw a line between an element in one set , and an element in the other , and say that represents some sort of relationship . |
| 26 | Some way away a couple of humans were using some sort of machines to load boxes into a hole in the side of the plane . |
| 27 | By 1940 at least sixty-eight local authorities were already using some sort of intelligence test ; about half these also used standardised attainment tests . |
| 28 | Early studies showed decreased segmenting pressure activity in this disease with absence of the normal postprandial pressure response although the normal postprandial increase in myoelectrical spike activity was retained , suggesting some sort of electromechanical dissociation . |
| 29 | re-state the failure by way of an SSR , suggesting some sort of avoiding action or solution , but leaving the SPR in a ‘ Replied to ’ state until the problem has been fixed . |
| 30 | re-state the failure by way of an SSR , suggesting some sort of avoiding action or solution , but leaving the SPR in a ‘ Replied to ’ state until the problem has been fixed . |