Example sentences of "sort [prep] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know the sort of er , the sort of disgusting to the straight polity erm |
| 2 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 3 | But like just for you to know that , I mean , at the moment , got a slight shortage of staff and , us little Express girlies are like , we 're all sort of desperate to please them well , and because we need to , if a customer rings we 're always there for them and the problem is , I 've got like two phones on my desk at the moment , so , I could guarantee the minute I put my phone down , if anybody else is on the phone ha , bloody phone 's still ringing , I have got to answer it . |
| 4 | In case the o other ones they 're sort of nasty to them . |
| 5 | We 've got some beiges as well that a few are quite sort of close to white . |
| 6 | If you think that this assignment is , is sort of preferable to the ones that you 've been looking , you could all choose this one , you 'll have to do some recording like the others on your own machines , but you could |
| 7 | A great deal of the blame must be laid at the feet of those who link regression with occult activities or treat it as some sort of parlour-trick to be practised for fun at parties . |
| 8 | And you say you 've never lived anywhere sort of similar to the flats ? |
| 9 | And erm we 've just actually we 've just erm I 've not got a sample of it , we 've just got another louvre called a which is erm a P V C it 's more sort of similar to erm erm you know the the slats on a venetian blind |
| 10 | So , this one is sort of comparable to income , cos we 're always comparing income and expenditure . |
| 11 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 12 | If you kind of drop down behind the blue if you use the blue first and the bat 's up there you got ta go sort of near to it to get behind you 're going to rush down to your hoop . |
| 13 | Wigan is interesting as a small northern town , sort of happy to be a little , quiet , workers ' town . |
| 14 | Erm the level crossing gates here , 's Mill on the left hand side , erm a er sort of lean to er over the erm sort of loading bay , or unloading bay there . |