Example sentences of "[adj] sort of [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 2 | Would you agree with Mr that on this sort of raid the adrenaline 's flowing ? |
| 3 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 4 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 5 | But it is probably good advice to plan this sort of book every bit as much as the writer of the puzzle detective story will have had to work out the plot and most of what is necessary to sustain that plot . |
| 6 | ‘ In a funny sort of way the injury helped . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ Things went no better or worse than I expected : I 'm getting that sort of treatment every game now and it 's up to me to overcome it . |
| 8 | THAT SORT of conversion the road to Damnedmascus sounds like a cliché today , but people did go through it then . |
| 9 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 10 | The beginning of each sentence in the middle of the poem seems to start at the end of the previous line which has the effect of making the reader almost experience the same sort of speed the train is going through . |