Example sentences of "[subord] it be a sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 2 | Even if it is a sort of solution to the problem it is unlikely to he the simplest or the cheapest . |
| 3 | But it sounds as if it 's a sort of family evening though does n't it ? |
| 4 | He produced this piece of information with a certain dim self-satisfaction , as if it were a sort of moral American Express card . |
| 5 | Not really cos it 's a sort of discussion with the whole class so I need the sort of feed back |
| 6 | And I think that 's where the danger comes as it 's a sort of acceptable thing to say ! |
| 7 | Again one could draw as it were a sort of a picture of erm one 's true self as a sort of largish lump , er much of which was the body and then within this smaller portion which is the soul , and within that a still smaller portion which is the mind , and then in all of us there is present to us the one , and we 're told that we ought to think about our body , that it is not our true self . |