Example sentences of "to some sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 2 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 3 | Soap opera watchers do n't just stick to some sort of naive interest in characters and plot . |
| 4 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 5 | In effect , the concern to increase calibre embodies a concern to recapture the social relations , style of politics , and class of leadership , that existed before the franchise was extended and before the working class rose to some sort of local political power through the Labour Party . |
| 6 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 7 | How was he to know that she was up to some sort of mischief ? |
| 8 | Everything could be converted tot he market : people and needs parcelled up on to some sort of national supermarket shelves . |
| 9 | ‘ She was most certainly subjected to some sort of ordeal . ’ |
| 10 | Because there are no expressions of regret afterwards , I assume I felt entitled to some sort of reward . |
| 11 | What was important was a shared antagonism towards democracy and the left and a common commitment to some sort of authoritarian , corporate state . |
| 12 | If it amounts to some sort of ‘ machine privacy ’ , is that at all suggestive for the question of consciousness ? |
| 13 | However , UI chief Peter Cunningham , speaking from the dais , alluded to discussions that were being held at the highest levels and suggested that they were very close to some sort of agreement . |
| 14 | In theory , guidelines for open systems are formulated when a committee of vendors come to some sort of agreement over architectural definitions and create a standard . |
| 15 | He feels that he is trusted , respected as an individual , treated as one and rewarded as one , and that it is his individuality that is needed : his individual contribution , rather than conformity to some sort of ideal ‘ company man ’ . |
| 16 | Judicial review of the exercise of discretionary powers by administrative bodies has been self-consciously based on the need to ensure that the intention of the legislature is implemented and that discretionary power is subjected to some sort of control in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 17 | I think that we must whe when we 're , we we must come to some sort of consensus in the staff as to what the levels mean in inverted commas . |
| 18 | But perhaps they 'll come to some sort of understanding . |
| 19 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 20 | Besides , everyone who matters has already been to some sort of bash at the Natural History Museum ; this is new . |
| 21 | I suppose everyone has to keep to some sort of rule . |
| 22 | All the same , he was in no doubt that Matthew Glynn had handed over the contents of the cardboard box to Swayne with a view to some sort of deal . |
| 23 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 24 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 25 | ‘ No-o … these things are numbered and they 'll be cross-indexed to some sort of register of names . |
| 26 | Being defined in terms of tension or paradox , ambiguity 's potential diversity was restored to some sort of unitary wholeness . |
| 27 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 28 | Gone to some sort of college . |
| 29 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 30 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |