Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] the sort of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , we have in the East end of the village , including the pub , the farm , and various other properties , a certain type of properties that elevation , a certain sympathetic er amenity , and these buildings , I I heard the word mentioned earlier , I live in the country , I could live in the town , it does n't matter where I live , but these are not the sort of properties , in my opinion , that should be put on this particular site , er and they 're they 're totally , all our own elevations and plans of height , and they are totally and utterly out of proportion and out of scale with the present day entrance to the village , and whilst we 're not talking totally and utterly about looks , if you come down into the village they are going to be totally over powering , particularly in the , in the actual , in this situation of no hedges and that kind of thing , |
| 2 | I felt quite dirty having to tell all these intimate details to total strangers and most of all my mother , who I had to live with and would always know everything , as they are not the sort of things you discuss with your parents . |
| 3 | A flat-calm water , clear sky and a bright quarter moon are not the sort of conditions we associate with good catches . |
| 4 | The rational man may contemplate them and give more weight to the former , and more still perhaps to ‘ Art should be a part of ordinary life ’ , but these are not the sort of principles which he will profess to have interrelated in a deductive system . |
| 5 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 6 | These are just the sort of qualities that Orcs really admire ! |
| 7 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 8 | These are exactly the sort of voters Labour needs in the South , where the Conservatives retain a 14-point mid-term lead . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're just the sort of things your friends over there would like . |
| 10 | They 're almost always surrounded by existing long term industry , they 're not the sorts of places we want Leeds residents to have to live in the future . |
| 11 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 12 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 13 | ‘ These are more the sorts of descriptions that people tend to use about the experience of working for me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Those are n't the sort of things you shoot , though , are they ? ’ |
| 15 | Sasha Konietzko and En Esch , it seems fair to say , are n't the sort of boys you take to Uncle Ken 's for a glass of ginger beer and a plate of fairy cakes . |
| 16 | Sasha Konietzko and En Esch , it seems fair to say , are n't the sort of boys you take to Uncle Ken 's for a glass of ginger beer and a plate of fairy cakes . |