Example sentences of "[art] [adj] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 2 | Although , as I soon found out , the Russians themselves were models of inefficiency and poor organization , they nevertheless believed that anything that went wrong was a deliberate act of sabotage rather than the normal sort of mistake which occurs in every large organization . |
| 3 | ‘ The normal sort , ’ she replied , wondering why his most innocent of remarks had the power to antagonise her . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me , what does a rich young girl like you call the normal sort ? ’ |
| 5 | Ha the information that we 've put out so far were our second reprint of the er of the black booklet of which there 'll be twelve thousand , they are quite an expensive item and , but our feeling was that er in order to sell the thing you 've got to do it properly and er spending money does n't come easily but er er in order to market the thing er thought that was the , the way to go and we 've done other things , stickers and badges and posters and so on and so forth , the normal sort of things but we 've really tried to spread these around the country and get the message that it 's a vibrant young er interesting fun thing to be involved in for young people . |
| 6 | We 've got a weight array which is the normal sort of thing we 'd have . |
| 7 | But , at the same time the normal sort of refuse if you like , disposable was being reduced because |
| 8 | Then we go to the taboo language and if you talk about when you go to the toilet , if you Everybody excuses themselves to leave and that 's both men and women and then somehow you have to say where you 're going , so the women are more likely to use the polite sort of euphemistic kinds of things like they 'd say toilet or loo , whereas the men are more likely to say bog . |
| 9 | To experience singing quite so soon was the nicest sort of welcome . |
| 10 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 11 | The race had started on a wet track — it is almost never dry for a whole weekend in Holland — and Hunt 's victory resulted from the finest sort of judgement about when to come in and change his wet tyres to slicks . |
| 12 | I had been reading in Shelvocke 's Voyages , a day or two before , that , while doubling Cape Horn , they frequently saw albatrosses in that latitude , the largest sort of sea-fowl … |
| 13 | I hated the place when I lived there and yet today I had the odd sort of feeling that the house was just waiting for me to go and live in it again . ’ |
| 14 | I suppose of course in fact the that sort of computing is is is fairly erm specialized is n't it |
| 15 | This hath indeed given a new face to the whole nation , hath in a great measure subverted the former state of affairs , and hath almost totally changed the manners , customs , and habits of the people , more especially of the lower sort . |
| 16 | It was the free-standing sort that might have stood outside a country pub . |
| 17 | We have a a very large brethren , er brother in the methodist ministry , and er when the mayor of Derby addressed the Methodist Conference , he said , you know , he like to come to these kind of events , and he 'd talk about the specific sort of things . |
| 18 | But it is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes , as represented by such families as the O'Neills , who have looked to the English public schools for the right sort of education . |
| 19 | Is it the right sort of party ? ’ |
| 20 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 21 | The weekend is a training in how to find and nurture the right sort of relationships with friends , parents , business , money , and especially sexual partners . |
| 22 | Having created a viciously oppressive system of laws and rules , the government has found the right sort of people to operate it . |
| 23 | British filmmakers could come up with films that would overcome the resistance of American exhibitors to non-Hollywood products , as the $5 million grossed by The Red Shoes suggests , but they would n't do so in sufficient quantities until Rank had developed more sophisticated ideas about how to cajole the right sort of product from his writers , directors and producers . |
| 24 | Hodge and Parker commanded the midfield , Crosby and Rice , strongly supported by Laws and Pearce , drove forward on the flanks and it seemed only a matter of time before the right sort of cross reached Chapman or Clough . |
| 25 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
| 26 | However , if it produced the right sort of pro-saving policies in the meantime , the hand-wringing would have served a useful purpose . |
| 27 | Edward Shevardnadze , who resigned as Soviet foreign minister last December , might have been the right sort of UN leader . |
| 28 | Once someone has established themselves as being the right sort of chap , then their name crops up time and again . |
| 29 | They were the right sort of people — talented and with some experience , and willing to get their hands dirty . |
| 30 | He says : ‘ There is no place in the group for units that are subsidised or do n't make the right sort of return on capital employed . ’ |