Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [art] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was n't a sort of ‘ grin and bear it ’ kind of happiness . |
| 2 | It was n't a sort of a sort of a thin cane , it was quite a big stick , he whacked him a couple of times across the backside . |
| 3 | It was n't the sort of stuff that love stories are made of , to be honest . ’ |
| 4 | Theoretically she could also have told Fiona on the telephone who could have told Nolan or Lewis , but it was n't the sort of item one would naturally bother to pass on . |
| 5 | ‘ But it was n't the sort of business the family company had grown up with , and it was n't the direction it wanted to go . |
| 6 | It was n't the sort of long-term depression that had settled on him when his wife persuaded him to take her on holiday to Marbella . |
| 7 | It was n't the sort of situation the etiquette books catered for . |
| 8 | But it was n't the sort of message you normally receive — it was a threat , and it sounded very unpleasant . ’ |
| 9 | It was n't the sort of thing he would have put on the wall next to his bed but it was a lot more acceptable than Mr Pilkington in a black cowl . |
| 10 | It was n't the sort of utterance that the orthodox policeman made in public . |
| 11 | It was n't the sort of day George would have chosen for his send-off . |
| 12 | It was n't the sort of thing my dad would wear at all . |
| 13 | But this was a term that I think was only applied to very few parents , on the whole , it really , it was not a sort of ‘ Parents are a nuisance ’ is not a general belief of , of teachers at all , not today . |
| 14 | It was not the sort of place you would choose to be born in if you had such a choice , but Kylie Ann Minogue was born there anyway . |
| 15 | Many thanks for the script , it said , but it was not the sort of thing that Sky was planning at the moment . |
| 16 | It was not the sort of thing you did in polite company . |
| 17 | It was not the sort of gag one would have expected from Lord King , and it set a certain tone … |
| 18 | There is no doubt that strip poker is a card game , and no doubt that it was not the sort of card game intended by the instructions given . |
| 19 | There was something funny here , and Lydia suspected that it was not the sort of funniness that she would enjoy . |
| 20 | It was not the sort of thing she usually said . |
| 21 | He pointed out that he had originally wanted Robert Bolt , but his secretary said it was not the sort of thing he would do . |
| 22 | ‘ It was not the sort of thing you would normally say but you can maybe understand his point of view . |
| 23 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 24 | It was just the sort of set-up that attracted Dustin , who had been itching to have more power over his films for some time . |
| 25 | It was just the sort of match that cried out for some Cantona-like ambition . |
| 26 | It was just the sort of thing we had seen on Starsky and Hutch . |
| 27 | It was just the sort of nose-thumbing exercise toward the NZRFU that Haden would loved to have devised and put in action . |
| 28 | Th you know it was just the sort of it , it all changed after the First World War and completely changed after the Second World War . |
| 29 | It was just the sort of thing the boys liked , and when Hilary had fetched their suppers — a cold Scotch egg each — from the kitchen , they all sat watching it . |
| 30 | But it sounded more like Hilda alone — it was just the sort of thing to appeal to Hilda 's sense of humour . |