Example sentences of "sort of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All sorts of small items of royal expenditure were charged to the Barbados and Leeward revenues but no other colony saw any reason to make a similar grant . |
| 2 | The whole American lifestyle offers all sorts of new challenges for Graham Morris . |
| 3 | New agers suffer from all sorts of new syndromes like ’ earth anxiety ’ which means basically that , like anyone with any common sense , they 've noticed that the planet is being severely abused . |
| 4 | Gold can be made into all sorts of other things besides guineas . |
| 5 | There were all sorts of other problems with Dalton 's atomic theory . |
| 6 | It will cost at least £1.00 a day to feed , needs some companionship from you throughout the day , and all sorts of other commtments from you which , on consideration , you may not be prepared to make . |
| 7 | You need one for simple jobs like driving picture pins , and for all sorts of other tasks like nailing down loose floorboards and mending fences , not to mention any woodwork you may be assembling . |
| 8 | There are all sorts of other ways in which it is hard to learn to use existing languages . |
| 9 | A lot of what it has in it is also to be found in all sorts of other books in the genre . |
| 10 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 11 | On the street , the roof of your car may be at just the right height for you to rest your elbows as you take the shot , and there are all sorts of other items of street furniture such as lamp-posts which can serve as props . |
| 12 | So , I think you should now have a very clear basis for discriminating between the two sorts of two sorts of toxin . |
| 13 | We sell all sorts of air-freighted fish like joki , so why not the John Dori ? ’ |
| 14 | All sorts of many stuff in there ! |
| 15 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 16 | Just because I happen to like my shellsuit trousers , people come to all sorts of unflattering conclusions about me , generally involving Essex . |
| 17 | And that 's a pity because olive oil is very high in monounsaturated fats , and doctors claim all sorts of therapeutic properties for the pungent garlic . |
| 18 | There are all sorts of contributory reasons for this situation although there is a steady pressure to change the future . |
| 19 | So whenever you 've got Xs and Ys and all sorts of strange things in there think just , it 's only a number . |
| 20 | Ian 's been sort of talking about all sorts of strange things in his sleep and |
| 21 | And then he made all sorts of tactless remarks about the state of the body . |
| 22 | In the past , the company has tackled all sorts of sporting themes including rugby ; the latest production is called ‘ On the Piste ’ , and yes , it 's about skiing . |
| 23 | Suddenly , the other evening , he starts asking me about all the new sorts of mobile phone on the market — how they work , what their range is , how much they cost . |
| 24 | ‘ When I was young , I used to keep all sorts of tropical fish in a tank . |
| 25 | It is a simple indication that the US economy is the most powerful in the world ( despite the fact that it is in relative decline ) and that global economic activity does tend to be measured in comparison with the sorts of economic activities with which the United States is mainly involved . |
| 26 | Now at a time when the rest of Europe is moving towards providing all sorts of extra services for parents and children , we in Scotland seem to be going backwards . |
| 27 | I shall resist the temptation to say all sorts of nice things about you at this point , because there would be other opportunities obviously . |
| 28 | She went outside to talk to him , threatening all sorts of terrible punishments for anyone who misbehaved in her absence . |
| 29 | The results of delegation of power from LEA to schools need not necessarily lead to the sorts of negative effects for teachers outlined above . |
| 30 | The Department of the Environment purports to have knowledge enough at its fingertips to enable a standard spending assessment to be made that takes account of all sorts of individual circumstances in each local authority area . |