Example sentences of "were [adj] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were different sorts of T-shirts , each with an image and a slogan or comment on the status quo , some of which Malcolm designed and some of which were designed by Bernie and Malcolm together . |
| 2 | Unless they of course there were different sorts of that you know even . |
| 3 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 4 | I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There 'll be an outcry , bring up a human baby as though he were some sort of experimental animal ! |
| 6 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 7 | At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections . |
| 8 | It is important not to interpret the phrase that Jesus had felt some power go out of him as though he were some sort of ‘ divine energy source ’ of healing . |
| 9 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 10 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 11 | We were some sort of kin . |
| 12 | It is a common enough linguistic trick — and one of which neurobiologists are themselves often guilty — to speak as if there were some sort of evolutionary scale or ladder of complexity , along which all the living forms found on earth today can be arrayed to form a series of ‘ more evolved ’ and ‘ less evolved ’ organisms . |
| 13 | There were some sort , some sort of er some like an insurance , now maybe only pay tuppence a tuppence |
| 14 | Now priests and even a couple of bishops appeared and Sophia felt a sense of relief , as if their presence were some sort of guarantee of a safe flight . |
| 15 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 16 | It was as if Marc himself were some sort of electrical power source . |
| 17 | He grazed through the streets as if he were some sort of god , head and shoulders above everyone . |
| 18 | I I feel a bit sorry for for some of the counters because they can see certain on one palette for instance , I found there were three sorts of bags . |
| 19 | Erm but then there there came an afternoon where y y there were little sort of crocodiles of of of mums with prams you know , dragging the kids behind , with the prams loaded up with their sort of precious possessions , heading out of the area . |
| 20 | There were all sorts of different views of the future , but everyone had the same ideas about what was worth preserving . |
| 21 | There were all sorts of minor wins , for instance if you threw and your card laid perfectly along the edge of another without covering it , that was a ‘ touchee ’ . |
| 22 | There were all sorts that we dealt with in those days . |
| 23 | M. B. There were all sorts of people in the old Chinatown area . |
| 24 | There were all sorts of things going through my mind . |
| 25 | THERE were all sorts of celebrities at this year 's Hong Kong Sevens , ranging from Miss South Africa to Roger Moore . |
| 26 | There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there . |
| 27 | Calculating your personal allowance used to be fairly complicated as there were all sorts of variations according to whether individuals were married or single and whether only one partner , or both husband and wife , worked . |
| 28 | There were all sorts of other processes that worked against the idea of a simple queue which managers needed to know about . |
| 29 | ‘ But there were all sorts of things there : salami , figs , even baked beans . |
| 30 | There were all sorts of other problems with Dalton 's atomic theory . |