Example sentences of "sort of [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , this picture of the working of Ashington suggests all sorts of local routes to and fro across the parish in performing these various activities . |
| 2 | Congress , so it is argued , lacks the information resources of the executive and is neither capable of keeping secrets nor of providing the sort of instant response to crises that modern technology and weaponry demands . |
| 3 | They 're looking for one sort of nice house to sort of show them more or less . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , some sort of classificatory scheme to group patient types seems to be essential . |
| 5 | so it looks like , when you write it up it looks like some , it 's got some sort of continuous argument to it |
| 6 | details several cases details from the er the police national computer , er for sale at prices varying from sort of fifty pounds to a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 7 | I think that the sort of environmental problem to which the hon. Gentleman referred is so great that it is probably best dealt with by multilateral institutions . |
| 8 | She counselled other women to do the same : ‘ You can make your womanhood a sort of external conscience to them . |
| 9 | Gives a sort of tidy look to it all . |
| 10 | If she knew he was near , watching her from that distant , unimaginable place , then these past months of playing her part , of continuing Mark 's glorious laughter and zest for life in a sort of living memorial to his spirit — well , then it would have been all worth it . |
| 11 | Was this to suggest a sort of Middle-Eastern flavour to the song ? |
| 12 | To his mind , she represented the sort of rare treat to which he was entitled , sixteen years after he married Molly . |
| 13 | you know it 's almost as if it 's like er you know a sort of negative thing to , to , to find out about somebody erm so erm yeah I mean I think I , so I think you 'll , I think you 'll , you 'll of necessity have to try and do something which captures this , this sort of informal talk because as soon as people commit themselves to writing they 're gon na be erm they 're gon na be |
| 14 | Unfortunately it 's got a sort of general grubbiness to it as well , has n't it ? |
| 15 | So sort of general appreciation to Vanbrugh for having their act together . |
| 16 | Until recent years , when the popularity of the short story has greatly increased , it was looked upon as a sort of poor relation to the novel , something the novelist did to occupy idle time , rather like whittling wood . |
| 17 | That sort of personal approach to the individual citizen is , more than anything else , likely to outrage the individual citizen who is being treated by the national health service . |
| 18 | So a leisure card 's been introduced now and will be I hopefully will be expand and give that sort of financial reward to people who live in the town . |
| 19 | The Labour party rightly emphasises the importance of training , but it has not made any financial commitment to it or identified any sort of financial commitment to the training programme . |
| 20 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 21 | Did n't it have this sort of political pattern to it |
| 22 | That was a sort of similar game to the Tin Lurky |
| 23 | What sort of economic approach to law is to be adopted in our attempt to establish the merits , or otherwise , of the Chinese Wall ? |
| 24 | Cos we need to cos we need to sort of all hands to the pump next week cos we 've got a big change-over Yeah but I know ink well no cos the leaflet he 's got has only just been approved and it 's going out next week yeah well I mean you 're to ha you 're to handle their enquiries er deal with their enquiries and then tell them to phone yeah yeah yeah but you see it 's the mailing that 's gone out and and then he 's got to do some advertising first two weeks in Feb . |
| 25 | That will be my key message , and the other thing I 'd like to emphasise today , and I 'd be very grateful for some sort of early response to that . |
| 26 | On summer evenings there was a sort of magical quality to that view and I will confess to you now I used to waste many precious minutes standing at one of those windows just enchanted by it . ’ |
| 27 | And that created a slight sort of canary-hopping attitude to policy-making which I do n't think was very good and in the end I think Mrs Thatcher felt the same . |
| 28 | But what is almost certain is that around 60% of sufferers have some sort of genetic susceptibility to it , and three times as many women as men suffer from this distressing condition . |
| 29 | Can you confirm that this is so and whether the accounts would then have to carry some sort of explanatory note to this effect ? |
| 30 | Morton 's model was concerned with how we recognise wor auditory words and that was an a sort of analogous process to this . |