Example sentences of "sort of [noun] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and Arthur was erm sort of Clerk to the Library Sub committee |
| 2 | Andrew stavanger was beginning to emerge in my mind with a shadowy personality — as the vest sort of successor to a family business , with a high sense of responsibility reinforced by his disciplined training at sea . |
| 3 | Such a figure gives the same sort of support to the prediction that the volatility of aggregate demand and its impact on real output are negatively related , as was found by Lucas ( 1973 ) . |
| 4 | And a key in all of this and Professor Lock er mentioned is why should we have er a strategic exceptions policy , why why do we want to attract those sort of developments to the county and more specifically perhaps Harrogate District ? |
| 5 | This is intended as a sort of coda to the movie : fade in to scenes of rooms strewn with festive remains , stacked dishes awaiting washing up , some of the more senior party-goers taking a nap . |
| 6 | Clearly the idea of water as a sanctity and an unfailing refuge from the Dark Lord had started to appeal to him ; and in ‘ The Hunt for the Ring ’ , accordingly , a sort of coda to The Lord of the Rings written c . |
| 7 | It is also important to perceive the National Insurance Act as the sort of response to the problem of unemployment that has remained dominant in Britain . |
| 8 | It 's a sort of reference to the way the Messiah will come and rescue and save God 's people . |
| 9 | And where the flags ended there rose three large stone arches , forming a sort of veranda to the front of a house , a real house with six windows visible , three above the flat roof of the stone veranda and three above that again . |
| 10 | When planning to use teacher-in-role consider what sort of responses to the role are possible . |
| 11 | So in the other version that you 've got what sort of changes to the order have you made ? |
| 12 | My choice of industry might seem surprising , in view of my wish to make some sort of contribution to the world 's well-being . |
| 13 | And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England . |
| 14 | It does n't imply the failure of science and the need to recognise the existence of a non-material mind ; just that the digital computer is a different sort of system to the brain . |
| 15 | Will representations to other Governments be as strong as possible to encourage them to make the sort of contributions to the know-how fund and to know-how activity that is absolutely crucial for the developing economies in central and eastern Europe , and without which they will never develop democratic politics as well ? |
| 16 | He was never happier than when watching Morse come face to face with a mystery : it vas like watching his chief tackle some fiendishly devised crossword ( as Lewis had often done ) , with the virgin grid on the table in front of him , almost immediately coming up with some sort of answer to the majority of the clues — and then with Lewis himself , albeit only occasionally , supplying one blindingly obvious answer to the easiest clue in the puzzle , and the only one that Morse had failed to fathom . |
| 17 | It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama . |
| 18 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 19 | What sort of feedback to the teacher ? ) |
| 20 | A spokeswoman for the Tyne and Wear Anti-Fascist Association said : ‘ The best thing people can do is consign this sort of rubbish to the rubbish bin which is where it belongs . ’ |
| 21 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 22 | Even if it is a sort of solution to the problem it is unlikely to he the simplest or the cheapest . |
| 23 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 24 | And you give that sort of thing to the estate agent . |