Example sentences of "[art] sort of [noun] on [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The greatest gain , however , is most likely to be the sort of attitude-change on the part of the public that has been seen to follow the Woonerf experiments , the Dutch cycle projects and the German traffic calming demonstrations . |
2 | Eliot , in The Use of Poetry , quoted Jacques Rivière : ‘ It is only with the advent of Romanticism that the literary act came to be conceived as a sort of raid on the absolute and its results as a revelation . ’ |
3 | Consider this passage about a sow : ‘ her combination of gross whiskery nakedness and riotous carnality is seized by the mythic imagination as a sort of uterus on the loose — upholstered with breasts , not so much many-breasted as a mobile tub entirely made of female sexual parts , a woman-sized , multiple udder of trotters . |
4 | Much of Souza 's work can be interpreted as a sort of attack on the mixed nature of his upbringing , as though a restless and pugnacious way with paint might overcome all circumstances and proclaim the painter alone . |
5 | And what about moving the if it was a a sort of burial on the island , how was the coffin moved to the deceased 's house ? |
6 | I bought him a red hot , a sort of sausage on a roll with mustard . |