Example sentences of "that [be] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And would this metal plate and the strip of metal that went round the top , would that be sort of like ready made . |
| 2 | That 's right , that 's right , yes , how we consume these products , yes , I mean , you 're right , so a potato is a potato is a potato , but if it 's pre-packed , graded and washed , that is sort of intrinsically different from er , er , sort of , mouldy , scruffy old potatoes that you could buy at a greengrocer . |
| 3 | Erm anyhow so that is sort of the background . |
| 4 | Whereas that is sort of straight from the |
| 5 | Yeah , we 'll look at that yeah that 's sort of . |
| 6 | Yes , and we could sell our products and that 's sort of thing . |
| 7 | And erm you know that 's sort of a d a difference to yours , |
| 8 | Now are you happy with that that you can do that or do you think that 's sort of overloading you ? |
| 9 | And then there 's this other one where i where it loses electrons , that 's sort of stretching it a bit . |
| 10 | That 's sort of business . |
| 11 | What do you think it is about that 's sort of helped this shop survive for so many years . |
| 12 | God I you could never tell if you 're , you 're going to be there long enough in job , if the , the boss did n't like you then he would just say well you 're , you 're paid off and that 's it , so that 's sort of benefit of keeping your union membership up you could go to anywhere where there was a trade union , a union membership and get a job . |
| 13 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 14 | But that 's , that 's sort of |
| 15 | Erm no what coming out of this is that how that although one would assume in the south that the peasants ought to be more revolutionary , in actual fact it 's the reverse and why is this happening , is it because of the fact that the Communist Party were in the n that maybe essentially that the peasants in China er were reactionary and worked within the confines of moral economy , but because of the presence of the Communist Party in the north they became more revolutionary and that 's sort of suggested by the success of land reform there and the fact that how , that they ca n't implement it in the south . |
| 16 | I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let's see how we go . |
| 17 | But if you 're really stuck and you 've got a third question that you ca n't come up with I mean y'know sort of blur it , fudge it and make it look like there 's a sort of metamorphic answer there and we can sort of say well that 's sort of twenty percent or something and then that counts and it may carry you over . |
| 18 | Yeah , but just because they 're a rubbish band , does n't mean that they ca n't communicate , and that 's sort of the image that we 're portraying here . |
| 19 | No it 's just a sort of you know , you 've seen furniture you know that that 's sort of damp . |
| 20 | that 's sort of a rough average , but that 's er a better , you know a more , that 's |
| 21 | Er anyway so tha that 's sort of you know , made |
| 22 | Erm mm , I do n't know whether there 's any way round it but that 's sort of the set up that they gave us when we started and I guess I 'll have to sort of conform to that , but it |
| 23 | Well he does , he goes in on Saturdays very often , he goes in on Sundays very often , you know , goes up to have a look at a site or goes into the office to look over something in peace without the phone ringing all that 's sort of thing , he puts in a lot of time that 's not strictly accounted for , Gerry did , I did as a teacher , but then we were well paid . |
| 24 | That 's sort of brilliant |
| 25 | That 's sort of a crunchy I think , a crickl crackly thing . |
| 26 | They 're all er , that 's sort of the marshes . |
| 27 | See that 's that 's sort of there . |
| 28 | So , yeah , that 's sort of |
| 29 | Is n't there any sort of erm church or anything like that , I 'm sure there 's one over there , is , do you know anybody round here that 's sort of religious . |
| 30 | I suppose that 's sort of weather , what , this is most intrigue you know , what made you take them ? |