Example sentences of "[v-ing] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By 1940 at least sixty-eight local authorities were already using some sort of intelligence test ; about half these also used standardised attainment tests . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 7 | I wondered if we could look at particularly customer relations producing some sort of voucher worth fifty pound or hundred pound or twenty five pound and er we have a stock of those printed up you know |
| 8 | How many truly realise that quality is knowing your buyer , getting him or her to define quality , rather than producing some sort of static standard which demands slavish conformance ? |
| 9 | On a point of library housekeeping , the simple stratagem of date stamping items left upon tables is a useful way of keeping some sort of check on the use of reference books . |
| 10 | Keeping some sort of balance is something I suspect to be close to the corporate heart of Switchboard , though usually unspoken . |
| 11 | He , moving between this strange abode and Jack 's house in Chelsea , felt as if , wanting to be needed by everyone , he were merely becoming some sort of semi-invisible messenger . |
| 12 | I do so again to counter the growing myth that Teesside is becoming some sort of earthly paradise a wonderland where industry and nature have achieved perfect harmony . |
| 13 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 14 | In November 1977 , a meeting of interested individuals from different disciplines was called to discuss the possibility of establishing some sort of research programme . |
| 15 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 16 | Well things that they the actually say anything which is sort of a sign that you listening , understanding but if they delay it , it 's say it 's the women that pauses , wanting some sort of suddenly realizes |
| 17 | I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her . |
| 18 | If you came up here seeking some sort of forgiveness from me you can forget it . |
| 19 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 20 | Er the three options were joint authorities er this would mean er unitary authorities within an area joining together and forming some sort of er joint committee arrangements and joint staffing arrangements to prepare a plan over a wider area . |
| 21 | Shostakovich 's seven Alexander Blok settings embrace a bleak , uncomfortable musical language , even when expressing some sort of serenity . |
| 22 | On the radio , Peter from Crawley whittering some sort of shit , what ? |
| 23 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |
| 24 | As a codicil to this I should tell you that at the same time in another part of the camp , the National Union of Miners were holding some sort of conference themselves . |
| 25 | ‘ Kuwait was trying to reassert its pre-Gulf war position and Saudi Arabia was expecting some sort of show of compromise , ’ one analyst said . |
| 26 | I waited for a day or so , expecting some sort of national protest . |
| 27 | This was a large , round , pail-like utensil with an inner lining and straw packed tightly into the space between for insulation , and usually containing some sort of stew . |
| 28 | He was wearing some sort of outlandish costume and his lips were rouged . |
| 29 | He was wearing some sort of brown caftan . |
| 30 | The third type is that of major practical decisions requiring some sort of new institution or the adoption of specific behaviour of a sort hitherto either forbidden or , at least , not encouraged . |