Example sentences of "[prep] the sort [prep] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , to even arrive at this sort of description , it is necessary to have found out by one kind of research or another , and by the added use of imagination , a lot about the sort of customers the advertising is trying to attract . |
| 2 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 3 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 4 | It was an old story that Jake and Sarah 's father had never married Gran — afraid , perhaps , of the sort of children a Demdyke would bear . |
| 5 | After Beirut , Sir Patrick held a string of the sort of jobs the FO reserves for high flyers — postings to Washington and Cairo , private secretary to the then permanent under-secretary , Lord Gore-Booth , and then , in the mid-1970s , private secretary ( foreign affairs and defence ) to two prime ministers , Harold Wilson and James Callaghan . |
| 6 | The need to compete with television , and with the sort of films the Americans were making , meant that producers had to make spectaculars , which they could n't afford to do , or the sort of brave and adventurous pictures that the circuits were reluctant to accommodate . |
| 7 | And then just as you go in the sort of crossways the new Horse Fayre shopping precinct sort of thing |
| 8 | The original draft directive proposed that advertising should be limited to the sort of details a business card carries . |