Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think here in the United Kingdom , we have to continue trying to urge our governments to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child , which is a sort of Bill of Rights for children . |
| 2 | Eikmeyer goes on to develop this sort of variation among readers in terms of the perceived variation in assistance provided by texts in their resolution . |
| 3 | It is difficult to see how Evans-Pritchard 's approach can begin to cope with this sort of variation in responses to a culture 's religion . |
| 4 | Converting this sort of projection into figures for the amount of necessary new-build and rehabilitation is not an exact science . |
| 5 | Starting from this background the painter now works toward the front by a sort of scheme of forms in which each object 's position is clearly indicated , both in relation to the definite background and to the other objects . ’ |
| 6 | While Shetland has probably always been a sort of filling-station for birds on migration , it is too big an area for even the most energetic birdwatcher to cover , and thousands of birds arrive and depart unseen . |
| 7 | Over the years it has become usual to rate small transformers for this sort of application in terms of rectified and smoothed d.c. outputs , but you ca n't always be sure of this and caution is advisable . |
| 8 | This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result . |
| 9 | But I think it would be very nice if everybody joined Riot Girl , just to show sort of affiliation of events on campus . |
| 10 | A sort of box with dials on and a little television screen . |
| 11 | Olive MacDonald does the choir , soloists look after themselves , all the producer has to do is arrange a sort of ballet of tableaux to the music . |
| 12 | Sort of restoration with knobs on |
| 13 | Superficially it might seem logical to place ‘ individual selection ’ on a sort of ladder of levels of selection , half-way between the ‘ gene selection ’ advocated in Chapter 3 and the ‘ group selection ’ criticized in Chapter 7 . |
| 14 | So there are , there are problems with this sort of policy in terms of , of the , like the economic logic of it is that yes you go for a rich peasant economy which creates inequalities which will provide you with industrialization , which will then enable you to get back to inequalities but , in term back to equality |
| 15 | You simply did not do that sort of thing to men like Luke Denner ! |