Example sentences of "[art] sort of [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 2 | This is just the sort of problem the family historian has to be aware of . |
| 3 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 4 | The sort of buyer every seller loves . |
| 5 | In one , Ackroyd interviews himself about his own book , dispensing the sort of reflections an author normally puts in the preface : only Ackroyd , the teasing narrative juggler , would insert them on page 892 . |
| 6 | He 's the sort of man no girl in her right mind would turn down , if you know what I mean . |
| 7 | He pauses , his mind running over the sort of life the couple led , the pressures , the way the split might have come . |
| 8 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 9 | They have a picture of the sort of person the child should be and of the society he is being fitted for , and they aim to civilize an infant ‘ barbarian ’ , ruled by his wants and emotions , into that person . |
| 10 | No one is ever going to believe you are totally innocent over this , and the sort of publicity the fuel blend failure attracted this afternoon is extremely damaging , as I 'm sure you are aware . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , this is just the sort of shit the Editor would write . |
| 13 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 14 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 15 | It 's a haven for foxes , and huntsmen , made so by preserving the sort of landscape a fox likes for breeding , and for hiding . |
| 16 | It 's a haven for foxes , and huntsmen , made so by preserving the sort of landscape a fox likes for breeding , and for hiding . |
| 17 | To get some idea of the best system for your particular way of life you should ask yourself the sort of questions a heating contractor would ask : |
| 18 | Was this the sort of outfit a woman wore to meet her lover ? |
| 19 | ‘ Now then , ’ said Deuce , looking critically around the large sitting room which seemed to Harry to be the sort of place the Queen of England would live in , ‘ this wo n't do at all . ’ |
| 20 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | More , she was passionate and wilful , exactly the sort of creature a man badly damaged by life and love ought to avoid — only , he could not avoid her . |
| 23 | Warranty A1 in the standard sale agreement ( see Appendix III ) is the sort of warranty a purchaser will normally ask for . |
| 24 | It was n't the sort of situation the etiquette books catered for . |
| 25 | More importantly , food molecules get into the mother 's breast milk , and babies that are exclusively breast-fed can be ill because of the sort of food the mother is eating . |
| 26 | If punishment is assimilated into the probation glossary it will inevitably influence the sort of practice the Service undertakes . |
| 27 | No wonder no woman ever comes forward to seek help if this is the sort of justice the army say it is . |
| 28 | The original draft directive proposed that advertising should be limited to the sort of details a business card carries . |
| 29 | ‘ But it was n't the sort of business the family company had grown up with , and it was n't the direction it wanted to go . |
| 30 | Her clothes could not be described as unsuitable for the country , but they were not the sort of thing a country woman would wear . |