Example sentences of "sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her course teacher has given her a reading list , and the library staff are good at helping students with all sorts of interests . |
| 2 | Art is after all the subject of attention for both critic and historian , even though the functions and methods of the two sorts of writer have drawn apart . |
| 3 | The advice offered here is that a reader should ignore what category of writing a book or article may come under , since helpful art criticism may be found in all sorts of sources . |
| 4 | Thematic articles are likely to be found in two sorts of periodicals , general magazines and academic journals , either interdisciplinary or of specialist disciplines . |
| 5 | Three sorts of perspective are identified by Leonardo da Vinci in his treatise on painting , as follows : |
| 6 | Amis also likes to write , as Larkin liked to write , about the fear of death , and it may be that this fear can be detected in the failure to notice here that both sorts of people are subject to it , as to other unavoidable misfortunes , and that both sorts die . |
| 7 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 8 | It bore a hideous resemblance to the blighting , punishing sorts of work which are common in the world at large . |
| 9 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 10 | ‘ What a useful boy you are , darling , ’ she said softly , ‘ Good at all sorts of things . ’ |
| 11 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I 've been a schoolteacher , a receptionist , a chambermaid , all sorts of things really . ’ |
| 13 | When starting my pond , I was overwhelmed by the generosity of friends and neighbours with all sorts of pond plants . |
| 14 | Readers have suggested that it might have been more profitable to give more space to fewer sorts of vegetable , but that would have been something of a soft option . |
| 15 | The ecology people were still mailing all sorts of publications to her , and her mouth would set hard with pain when she read Lucy 's name in a list of credits or committee members . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh aye — all sorts of things could be . |
| 17 | Would it not make a difference if one identified experience , not with some disposition to overt behaviour , but with the ‘ behaviour ’ of the brain as it ‘ discriminates ’ the various sorts of stimuli within the nervous system ? |
| 18 | Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established . |
| 19 | Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions . |
| 20 | The perfect joint responds to a couple taps : any stiffer and you can be in seven sorts of trouble . |
| 21 | Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association . |
| 22 | The Guardian commented that these sorts of deals ‘ would simply prompt further government investigations into the industry , unless the pub owning company was seen to be genuinely independent of the brewer ’ . |
| 23 | Ball-nuts fit in all sorts of parallel sided , finger-tip cracks . |
| 24 | There are all sorts of hazards in gardens : electrical equipment which can kill if not used correctly , or if it is faulty ; tools which are easy to trip over ; garden canes , which cause many eye injuries ; loose paving and muddy surfaces ; and sharp implements and thorns . |
| 25 | Extracts from the diary of the working supervisor for a small building company , with useful tips on all sorts of building problems |
| 26 | This can be , and has been , taken in all sorts of ways . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for . |
| 29 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 30 | If this suggests that there are other sorts of English people than the sort Auden has in his sights , on the other hand it lends point and force to his censure of Beerbohm , and of what Beerbohm stands for in English life . |