Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only on the drug for seven days and by the seventh day , I 'd suddenly turned into some sort of maniac . |
| 2 | Soap opera watchers do n't just stick to some sort of naive interest in characters and plot . |
| 3 | With an effort Shannon pulled herself up to her full five-feet-three-inch height , desperately striving for some sort of dignity , even though she was shivering all over . |
| 4 | Adapting this potential so that the plants can be easily integrated with some sort of collection system will depend on advances in the techniques of genetic engineering . |
| 5 | Well they normally just packed with some sort of wadding , I du n no . |
| 6 | I gave the money to a thankfully dumb-struck fiddle-player on Sauchiehall Street and walked away feeling like some sort of martyred saint . |
| 7 | Erm if it 's um well generally speaking I think , thinking about what the sort of consensus would be among people who who study this sort of thing , they 're usually looking for some sort of of discrepancy in ages or powers or something . |
| 8 | Intensional descriptions are usually invented by some sort of generalizing method . |
| 9 | I seem to have become rapidly drunk on some sort of embarrassing lower-middle class drink like Bacardi and blackcurrant — thereby leaving myself open to mockery from clever left-wing improvisation playwrights . |
| 10 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 11 | It seems to me we 're also coming across some sort of Eastern influence here as well . |
| 12 | They were probably derived from some sort of segmented worm ( annelid ) — a few scientists adopt the view that different arthropods may have come from different and separate worms , independently , which became ‘ arthropodized ’ by acquiring an external skeleton . |
| 13 | ‘ We are really looking for some sort of justice for these people . |
| 14 | Since the invasion is illegal , it is often met with some sort of opposition but in general , the shanties remain , mostly because there is nowhere else for their inhabitants to live . |
| 15 | Very weepy and clingy ; erratic temperature and changeable symptoms ; thirstless ; often accompanied by some sort of digestive upset — nausea or diarrhoea after the fever has passed ; chilly but dislikes the heat ; thick , yellow , bland discharges ; earache ; lingering eye complaints ; dry cough at night and loose by day ; desires cool open air . |
| 16 | The complaints are often accompanied by some sort of digestive upset ( like in Pulsatilla ) . |
| 17 | In particular , can Poulantzas explain specific conjunctures and the shifting relations between classes without tacitly relying on some sort of volun-tarism ? |
| 18 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 19 | The leaders of the groups that he mentions might well come to some sort of compromise — I might have achieved that — but I would not be able to command a majority of Members , who have other ideas . |
| 20 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 21 | The duke was virtually forced into some sort of counter-offensive to protect his own interests , and his seizure of prince Edward at the end of April could even be justified , although Mancini does not say so , as a return to Edward IV 's original wishes . |
| 22 | ‘ It certainly looks like some sort of allergy or chemical reaction , ’ he said . |
| 23 | However , since it is obvious that human society could never advance without some sort of leadership structure , what makes us think the family , society 's basic unit , would be any less an anarchy with equal responsibility ? |
| 24 | ‘ She was most certainly subjected to some sort of ordeal . ’ |