Example sentences of "sort of [noun pl] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now launches a parallel attack on the idea that individuals are by nature the sort of creatures who can come to know things through their experience of the external world . |
| 2 | But the truly independently-minded MPs are the sort of Conservatives who turned out Neville Chamberlain in 1940 and whose mutterings in the Smoking Room could affect Conservative premiers. and the kind of Labour members with the outside income or the zeal who saw through the European Communities Bill . |
| 3 | There was a high stone wall , a pair of wrought-iron gates and the kind of silence that suggested the sort of owners who could enforce their privacy . |
| 4 | The sort of girls who would quickly come to the fore are the sort of Malory-Towers-Swallows-and-Amazons type ; practical down to earth and capable , but there would probably be many unlike that who would be perfectly handless when it came to organisation and practicalities . |
| 5 | Peggy Price hoots with laughter at the sort of women who put on airs in front of her lodgers : |
| 6 | They 're the sort of women who are needed to make the real changes . |
| 7 | It , too , displaced a society whose individuals were healthier but less numerous — the archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that hunters lead longer , healthier and happier lives than farmers , at least than the sort of farmers who live or die by the sweat of their brows . |
| 8 | The question we therefore have to address initially is — was Robertson 's order on 14 May intended to cover the handing-over of the sort of Yugoslavs who were in Viktring ? |
| 9 | Operating in sections it 's corporals and below who if they are to encoutner problems it 's those sort of ranks who 'll have to fix it . |
| 10 | There were location notes for a film and sheets about the physical appearance of the characters and the sort of actors who might play them , these surrounded by doodles , mazes and uninspired drawings of faces . |
| 11 | These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ . |
| 12 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 13 | A blend of permissiveness and forcefulness , combined with warmth and encouragement , fits the recommendations of child-rearing specialists who are concerned with fostering the sort of children who are socially outgoing , friendly , creative and reasonably independent and self-assertive . |
| 14 | And they were not really the sort of children who were easily frightened . |
| 15 | Now they are the sort of MPs who are most likely to support traditional Labour policies , which Clarke , on the hypothetical question of water renationalisation , was implicitly rejecting . |
| 16 | ‘ They were n't the sort of terrorists who demanded dollars , gold or murder . |
| 17 | Elisabeth finished pouring and the activity took long enough for it to strike her that the Hulsbys were the sort of tourists who only appreciate sites for which postcards have been printed . |
| 18 | With great foresight , the scientists operating this marine 0898 line had also brought a tape of a large male whale — saying what , we know not — presumably in case these were , well , the sort of lads who do n't like girls . |
| 19 | Besides those who waited to journey together there were others who came up out of the forest alone and who seemed to belong there , men licensed by the Lord Warden to carry on their trade in certain parts of the forest , woodmen , trappers , charcoal burners , for the most part a silent surly sort of men who emerged from the forest , went briefly about their business , had little to say for themselves , and then disappeared into the solitude again . |
| 20 | The intention in discussing this second class of mufti , the " important provincial muftis or , more strictly , muderris/muftis , is essentially simply to point out their existence and to give a very rough idea of the nature of the class and of the sort of men who held these posts . |
| 21 | It is an interesting question whether the sort of workers who are good at getting children back with their natural families are different from those who are good at placing children with new families . |