Example sentences of "[det] sort [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some sorts of pollution may also for a time evade detection in the laboratory . |
| 2 | The gradual extension of the state 's role in crime control certainly affected some sorts of crime , particularly property crime , but government institutions rarely worked in the ways intended by higher officials . |
| 3 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 4 | I 'm against some sorts of professionalization , but it would be silly to think that the university should have nothing to do with any profession . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , we 'll be trotting them along to probation or a solicitor or whatever and getting that side of things dealt with , etc. etc. , so we try to stitch together some sorts of packages for people who otherwise fall through . |
| 6 | Although there has been a settlement of some sort at North Shields since the Middle Ages , the modern town is a product of the addition of industrial capitalism to mercantile capitalism . |
| 7 | Yeah , erm , right , yeah , that 's all the other items , erm what 's been er been going through my head recently is , is er the , looking at the pattern of the meetings and the way the meetings are arranged and , and how , erm , at the last meeting we had a speaker er and that I think , we all found that quite interesting and the one , one from Central America that things and I feel we ought to have that much more frequently than we do have er , a , either a speaker or a focus of some sort of meetings erm , so I think that 's something I 'd like to raise and get the A G M at the next meeting I think similar thing we ought to consider there . |
| 8 | Some sort of clip to hold them in so that erm |
| 9 | near the leaves , it looks like , give , this is some sort of quarry or something , you know when they |
| 10 | The provisions made by his executors to establish loan chests at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge after his death suggest that Gilbert may have received some sort of university education . |
| 11 | The Tyne seamen have had some sort of union organization since the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | And his feeling of intense satisfaction at this conclusion was only because he was finally clear-headed enough to make some sort of decision . |
| 13 | The support was given because of the EEC 's desire to obtain some sort of self-sufficiency in uranium supplies . |
| 14 | Erm , we 've got some publicity material produced , posters we intend doing several displays county hall , headquarters , all police stations will have posters sent out to them , probably libraries will be circulated with them , er it 's a last minute job typical we only just found about it , we do what we can we need some sort of press exercise do n't we you know . |
| 15 | I had heard stories about a failed invasion attempt in 1940 , but a Russian NCO insisted that the Germans had planned some sort of operation against Churchill in a remote part of Norfolk in the autumn of 1943 . |
| 16 | The only conclusion that can be drawn from the above correspondence is that Stirling must have had some sort of operation in mind using parachutes during the period when he was returning from his second visit to Sirte . |
| 17 | I only found out yesterday that there was some sort of operation . |
| 18 | He 'd a , he had some sort of operation or something , it 's not , but at Debbie 's wedding , Andrew were n't there because he some operation on his jaw or something that , ca n't remember now what it , what he 'd had done were having his jaw bone |
| 19 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 20 | It was no longer practicable to seek a way around the Swamp , instead some sort of shelter had to be found as soon as possible . |
| 21 | It was no longer practicable to seek a way around the Swamp , instead some sort of shelter had to be found as soon as possible . |
| 22 | The only idea she had was of discovering some sort of shelter for the night , for she must catch the stage to her destination early in the morning . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's some sort of kick , this work . |
| 24 | ‘ Look , ’ she then began by saying , ‘ there must be some sort of council accommodation for people like you . |
| 25 | There would have to be some sort of Council meeting , anyway , held somewhere out of Edward 's reach , to try to cope with the situation . |
| 26 | We are in that situation and all we can do is try and do the best we can to survive and keep some sort of service going to help people who desperately need it . |
| 27 | I do little but rest and try to put this house into some sort of order but as yet there is neither pleasure nor profit in it . |
| 28 | The first folio volume of Sloane 's Natural History of Jamaica was published in 1707 , the delay of the second , until eighteen years later being due , he explained , to the demands of his busy practice in Bloomsbury ( he also attended the Royal Family ) and to putting his vast collections into some sort of order . |
| 29 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 30 | Ramsay did what he could to try to keep his men in some sort of order , or at least in touch with each other and himself , but this proved to be scarcely feasible . |